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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | From Disaster Recovery to Future-Ready Design: Building on a Legacy of Innovation, Resilience, and Digital Transformation

WAM & Autodesk have built a worldclass partnership centred on technology, resilience, & innovation in the built environment. AU23 AECO Keynote showcased how our collaboration shaped the recovery of Christchurch. Heke Rua Archives represents the next evolution: a proactive, future-ready design model, integrating cutting-edge seismic resilience, digital twin technology, & cloud-based infrastructure to futureproof our national taonga for 100yrs. This isn’t about recovery; it’s about anticipating, designing for, & adapting to the challenges ahead. The WAM Autodesk partnership began with a response to disaster—but now, we have the opportunity to design for the future before disaster strikes through technology driven design and operations. Heke Rua Archives is the platform to elevate our collaboration, demonstrating how AI, digital twins, BIM, and cloud technology can create a new paradigm for resilience, sustainability, and cultural preservation.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Weathering the Heat: Challenges and Adaptations for Water Utilities in a Warming World
During this session, you’ll learn about the various ways that extreme heat impacts water utilities, from decreased water supply and infrastructure challenges to worker safety concerns and increased costs of service delivery. We’ll explore the potential scale of these impacts and the varying ways that different locations are likely to be impacted. The presenters will then share several strategies for mitigating the impact of extreme heat, including optimized system modeling, predictive analytics, policy updates, and stakeholder outreach. By planning today for a future that is likely to be hotter than the past, we can create more-resilient communities that are ready to take on the heat.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
BIM Meets 3D GIS: Bring Construction Cloud and Esri ArcGIS Together to Improve Project Delivery Velocity
Discover how to bring rich BIM data into the geospatial world. This session will explore various integration pipelines—both current and experimental—that share 3D models from the Construction Cloud platform with the Esri ArcGIS platform, enabling seamless geospatial visualization and analysis. BIM data changes rapidly throughout its lifecycle. Geographic information system (GIS) data represents environmental, political, infrastructure, and utility information. To meet the velocity requirements of housing and infrastructure, stakeholders need a seamless, integrated view of this widely diverse information. Learn how Esri and Autodesk are collaborating to accelerate the construction of the future.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Connecting 3,000 People to Build Sustainable Data Center Infrastructure Across Europe with Construction Cloud
Imagine trying to connect a 3,000+ workforce on projects with a capacity of 300+ megawatts across Europe. Sisk has been using BIM and innovative technology for many years on complex data center projects. Our Data Centre Business Unit successfully captured two Autodesk Excellence Awards (2020 and 2022). We’ll take you on our journey, and share the valuable lessons learned during each stage of the transition from BIM 360 software to Construction Cloud. We’ll demonstrate how Autodesk cloud platforms have enabled a holistic methodology that streamlines coordination, improves collaboration, drives , and contributes to the wider digital / artificial intelligence (AI) data center construction landscape. Providing authentic content, we will give real-life examples from live construction projects where the use of Autodesk tools has resulted in a 50% efficiency increase in the management processes as compared to traditional methods, and we’ll cover how we ultimately design digitally and deliver physically using Construction Cloud.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Rendering at Scale Using AWS Deadline Cloud for VRED 2025/2026
AWS Deadline Cloud for VRED software is a fully managed, cloud-based, render management solution to burst high-quality rendering at scale. This easy-to-deploy and affordable solution supports VRED core and service-managed fleet (SMF) infrastructure—managed by AWS, requiring no IT commitments to configure, deploy, and maintain infrastructure and licensing. Customer-managed fleet (CMF) infrastructure offers end users the flexibility to use their existing on-prem hardware infrastructure or cloud-based environments to perform VRED rendering. Slides and live demos will illustrate how AWS Deadline Cloud for VRED can be integrated into an existing pipeline. This is illustrated through interfaces, including stand-alone tools, the Deadline Cloud API, and a render job submitter. Features highlighted will include grouping workers to fleets, assigning render job prioritization and scheduling, as well as monitoring progress through the Deadline Cloud monitor desktop application and AWS Management Console.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Asset-Driven Delivery: Connecting Field, Schedule, and BIM in Construction Cloud
This session will explore how 2D and 3D assets can drive success in linear civil infrastructure projects using Construction Cloud. Based on a real tunnel project, we’ll show how static asset records were transformed into a dynamic digital ecosystem linked to schedule, cost, quality, BIM geometry, and carbon tracking. By reframing assets as a digital thread supporting every project phase, we’ll reveal how structured data, automation, and connected workflows improve delivery and handover. The session will cover key steps: identifying asset data, auditing existing info, and configuring Construction Cloud to ensure consistency, traceability, and stakeholder alignment. The case study highlights real-time tracking, risk flagging, and metrics, integrated into Power BI dashboards for data-driven decisions. Learn how asset-centered strategies in Construction Cloud reduce risk, enhance collaboration, and generate long-term value.
25p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Empowering OC San's Sewer Asset Management with Info360 Asset

Orange County Sanitation District (OC San) is a public agency responsible for collecting, treating, and safely disposing of wastewater and its residuals for 2.6 million residents and businesses in Orange County, California. OC San operates and maintains two large treatment plants, 15 pumping stations, and about 390 miles of sewer with 4,500 manholes. OC San faces the challenge of fixing aging infrastructure with increasingly limited resources. In 2023, OC San contracted Autodesk to help them implement Info360 Asset software with the goals of standardizing CCTV inspection data collection and management, and enabling the development of risk models for sewer assets in the collections system. In this presentation, OC San will showcase the use of Info360 Asset to manage and analyze the volumes of geographic information system (GIS) and CCTV inspection data to best prioritize the riskiest assets.

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29p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Connected Infrastructure: Integrating Datum360 with InfoAsset Manager, InfoWorks ICM, and InfoWorks WS Pro for Live Asset Synchronization
In this technical instruction session, we’ll explore how integrating Datum360 with InfoAsset Manager and hydraulic modeling tools like InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro software can establish a single source of truth for utility asset data. This session will walk through the architecture of a live integration pipeline—connecting BIM updates to hydraulic models in near real time. When a designer updates a pipe diameter in an intelligent model, the change is registered in Datum360 using a unique asset ID. From there, data flows to InfoAsset Manager using the Ruby Exchange API. It is finally synchronized with InfoWorks ICM or InfoWorks WS Pro. The result is a continuously accurate, up-to-date hydraulic model that utility owners can rely on—without time-consuming manual data entry. This connected workflow enables faster updates, better decision making, and significant operational savings.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Bridging the Gap: How PennDOT Connects Design and Construction with Construction Cloud
In this session, we’ll explore how PennDOT (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation) is using Construction Cloud to connect traditionally siloed phases of infrastructure delivery—design and construction. With the soft rollout of its design solution nearly complete, PennDOT’s construction teams are starting to use Build functionality within Construction Cloud to complement and enhance their existing systems. The session will highlight how PennDOT is navigating change management, improving project transparency, and streamlining communication across teams as it shifts toward a connected, digital-first project environment.
2p
17p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Development of Object Library and CDE Infrastructure with ACC for the New Era of Tokaido Shinkansen Maintenance Management
The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed Japanese rail line excels globally in safety, punctuality, and frequency. This project aims to transform infrastructure maintenance using BIM. Although Japan rail owners are adopting BIM, efforts remain siloed across teams and lack integrated optimization. Rail maintenance requires ongoing inspection, diagnosis, action, and documentation. Seamless data handover is essential to reducing lifecycle costs, but information often stays locked in noninteroperable systems. JR Central addressed this by piloting a common data environment and object library for embankments, following ISO 19650-based information management. Interoperability was ensured through openBIM standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), which unify object definitions and data formats. Revit and Construction Cloud, powerful BIM tools, were also adopted to enhance authoring consistency and collaborative workflows. This initiative unlocks a new era in infrastructure maintenance—firmly grounded in interoperability.
2p
46p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Data Sludge to Liquid Gold: Transforming the Future of Water Infrastructure Through Digital Workplaces
Water infrastructure owners and operators face poor asset information handover due to system misalignment. Could automation and integrated data enable Digital Workplaces to support operational efficiency, reduce rework and costs, and improve health and safety (H&S)? Learn how GHD successfully used client-focused data exchange and cloud collaboration during the 40MLD upgrade of Wellington Water Limited’s Te Mārua water treatment plant to ease these struggles. Automating the integration of asset information using Autodesk products enabled delivery of the asset register 12 months early—saving NZ$150,000 and 1,400 hours in asset data management. Combining Esri mobile apps and dashboards enhanced as-built quality and reduced site H&S risks. A proof of concept was developed where GeoBIM and Docs software were fused to create a geospatial common data environment (CDE)—the foundation for an operations and maintenance Digital Workplace. We’ll share valuable lessons on managing evolving data needs and supply chains to demonstrate how connected workflows made more efficient.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Water Infrastructure Projects: BIM Collaborative Workflow with Reality Capture and ACC
This case study will explore the transformative impact of integrating Autodesk products into water infrastructure projects. We’ll highlight how operational efficiency is enhanced, collaboration is streamlined, quality control is maintained, and is facilitated throughout the project lifecycle. By using Construction Cloud (Docs, Build, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and ReCap software), the case study will demonstrate practical applications in three pivotal phases: design, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M). Through two real-world examples, you’ll gain insights into how these tools work together to optimize project outcomes and ensure seamless integration across different stages.
32p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Stop Taking Photos on Site! Integrate Mobile 3D Capture and 3D Gaussian Splatting in Civil Infrastructure Workflows Instead
Have you ever taken a photo of something critical during a site visit only to forget where it was or find it lacking context when reviewing it later? The increasing accessibility of advanced reality capture devices—such as photogrammetry and SLAM LiDAR technology—offers an unprecedented opportunity for AECO professionals to accurately capture detailed and extensive site details. Integrating these technologies into your workflows can dramatically enhance documentation at various construction stages, improve coordination among stakeholders, and provide timely and transparent as-built information. This case study will demonstrate how to effectively use these advanced technologies (SLAM point clouds and 3D gaussian splatting) to enrich civil infrastructure workflows with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, ReCap, InfraWorks, Revit, and Construction Cloud.
27p
64p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Reimagine Infrastructure Planning: Unlock Efficiency with Outcome-Based Generative Design
Early-stage infrastructure planning involves tight timelines and complex trade-offs—yet making the right decisions early is critical to a project’s success. In this session, Infraspace Founder & CEO Andreas Kjølseth shows how outcome-based generative design can accelerate decision-making and improve results by enhancing familiar Autodesk workflows. Kristoffer Bugge from Norconsult will share how one of the Nordics’ largest consultancies is applying Infraspace in real projects to boost productivity and deliver greater value to clients—using automated 3D model generation, instant analytics, and AI-powered optimization. Join us to learn how generative design can help planners and engineers explore better options, faster—while integrating smoothly with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, Navisworks, and Forma.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Sustainable Infrastructure: How to Monitor Carbon Emissions of Infrastructure Projects Across Multiple Teams Globally
A large international engineering firm sought a systemic and consistent approach to within its infrastructure projects. The firm partnered with ORIS to achieve accurate and comparable carbon footprint assessments across diverse projects. The firm aimed to achieve global monitoring of the CO2 footprint of their designs, necessitating a robust and reliable solution for carbon emission evaluation. ORIS rollout involved creating a structured process and data approach to integrate their existing workflows. Using Autodesk Platform Services, ORIS automated the extraction of data from intelligent models, which reduced pain and errors. The process enabled the infrastructure team to spread the solution efficiently across geographies (Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland) and departments (road, bridges, tunnel, railway, and so on). This session will highlight key benefits, such as time spent delivering CO2 assessment of the project, measurement consistency, delivered carbon reduction, and carbon dashboarding.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Building Blocks: The Key to Unlocking Efficiency When Optimizing Your Collaboration for Civil 3D Implementation
The concept of building blocks offers a powerful analogy for the evolution of a Collaboration for Civil 3D implementation. It starts with essential building blocks as the foundation, and they are assembled incrementally to create a complex structure. This structured yet adaptable approach enables delivery of value while preparing for future growth, positioning organizations to lead and innovate with resilience in a rapidly evolving landscape. In this session, we’ll discuss how GHD reconfigured its foundational building blocks to create a stable base for adopting new technologies and methodologies, and to foster innovation. We’ll cover topics such as effective cloud data management, fine-tuning existing projects for better performance, and how important technical frameworks and governance are to ensure long-term success. Additionally, we’ll discuss how standardized workflows achieved faster model opening times, reduced infrastructure costs, and enhanced teamwork.
30p
64p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Automating a Complex Revit Bridge Model with Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design
This session will outline a workflow for creating a Revit model of a steel composite cable stay bridge by using a combo of Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design for Inventor software. Modeling a bridge structure poses challenges due to its complex geometry, which adheres to a vertical, horizontal, and super-elevated roadway profile. Consequently, the steel girders, beams, and connection details must align with this 3D roadway profile, complicating the creation and placement of Revit families. For this challenge, COWI used Grasshopper and Dynamo to automate the creation of steel geometry, parameters, and insertion points, ensuring accurate orientation for family placement. Additionally, Informed Design was used to transform various iterations of intricate steel connections into families, which were then positioned using a Dynamo workflow. The integration of visual programming and Informed Design has been vital in efficiently producing complex bridge structures with a focus on automation.
61p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Learn How to Unlock Insights from 3D Ground Data in Civil 3D with GeoDin Ground for Informed Infrastructure Design Choices
Ground data is key to constructing safe, cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure. As an Autodesk strategic partner, Fugro developed GeoDin Ground app for Civil 3D software to transform infrastructure design by providing designers and civil engineers with contextual and comprehensive ground data through an integration with GeoDin, a leading geotechnical data management, analysis, and reporting software. The GeoDin Ground app allows designers to see into the ground. How does this work exactly? We’ll show and teach you all the major insights in this session. We’ll import geotechnical data directly into Civil 3D, visualize boreholes, and create surfaces and volumes with GeoDin Ground. Finally, we’ll analyze geotechnical data between surfaces and create volume reports. And we’ll demonstrate the benefits of visualizing and analyzing infrastructure in combination with ground layers. You’ll leave the session with a bigger picture of the impact of GeoDin Ground and a practical understanding of the app.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Parametric Design in Practice: Evolving from Civil 3D Object Automation to Custom Dynamo-Driven Geometry
As the infrastructure industry evolves, so must the tools we use. This session will introduce a game-changing approach to Civil 3D design by harnessing Dynamo—from automating repetitive tasks to creating smart, parametric geometry that can outperform traditional components. You'll learn how Dynamo connects with Civil 3D objects, and how simple scripts can boost productivity across project stages. We’ll explore the limitations of standard workflows and how Dynamo offers a flexible, rule-based alternative for intelligent infrastructure design. This case study will show how Dynamo can evolve from a basic automation tool to a powerful generative engine, enabling agile, scalable, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. We’ll wrap with real-world examples and provide a glimpse into how Python scripting extends Dynamo’s power for smarter, faster design outcomes.
59p
91p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Unlocking the Value of Construction Cloud, Tandem, and GIS for Infrastructure
Join us for an engaging session designed specifically for the infrastructure sector. Discover how Construction Cloud can improve project management, foster collaboration, and streamline data environments for infrastructure projects, including Power BI, Tandem, Construction Cloud maps, and Esri. Learn to visualize maps and geographic information system (GIS) data using Power BI and Esri environments to provide actionable insights.
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