Throughout the last six years, Autodesk has been active in the construction technology space, having spent more than $1.5 billion in acquiring innovative solutions such as PlanGrid, BuildingConnected, and, most recently, Payapps. In parallel, we continue to be the leading strategic investor in construction technology startups, with investments such as Aurigo, Bridgit, and Eyrus. We're committed to playing a pivotal role in the identification of innovative solutions to address the challenges of today's construction industry. In this session, you'll hear directly from the Autodesk Construction Strategy Team on the latest state of the startup ecosystem in construction and how this continues to evolve. The team members will share why they believe that a connected technology stack is a non-negotiable for contractors looking to future-proof their businesses. In addition, you'll hear from several of our leading customers about their approaches to connecting both platforms and point solutions to drive their desired project outcomes.

PlanGrid has been taking the construction world by storm ever since its creation in the early 2010s. Thousands of projects throughout the world have utilized this product, and it is widely used by general contractors as well as subcontractors. This class will go through custom field workflows for PlanGrid, and will be centered around the PlanGrid mobile app. We will touch on several different field workflows that are being used in the construction industry today and how they can be performed all in PlanGrid’s mobile app. This course will go beyond the basics of PlanGrid and will enable learners to see how easy and intuitive PlanGrid is, even when performing advanced field workflows.

Autodesk is committed to helping the construction industry realize the value of a fully connected digital platform across design, plan, build, and operate phases. Autodesk and Aurigo partnered to develop the most comprehensive set of cloud-based solutions for public and private owners. Aurigo’s integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud will provide owners a single technology platform for their entire program-design-plan-build-operate lifecycle. This session will showcase the Masterworks connector to PlanGrid as well as give a sneak peek into the soon-to-be-released product for owners.

Introduced at Autodesk University 2019, Construction Cloud brings together the most powerful portfolio of construction management software products in the industry, supporting workflows spanning all phases of construction—from design, to planning, to building, to operations. There is tremendous breadth of supported workflows, depth of capabilities in each of the software products, and connectivity of data between those products. Over the past year, Autodesk has focused on three main areas of advancement with Construction Cloud: continuing investment into improving Assemble, BuildingConnected, PlanGrid, and BIM 360 software; delivering more integrations and connectivity between the products; and building a unified platform. This class will show how Construction Cloud has advanced over the course of the last 12 months, and we’ll explore the workflows from design through operations that can be supported by the products.

This masterclass will cover how to link PlanGrid with next-generation BIM 360 Docs software by utilizing the power of data collection through BIM 360 workflows and PlanGrid field reports. The speaker will be able to demonstrate the added benefit of being able to maximize data for trend analysis via Microsoft Power Bi and automatic modeling by integrating the output with Dynamo software. We will cover basic principles of PlanGrid and usability for the average user, alongside best practices, work-arounds, shortcuts, limitations, and benefits. We will explore an array of case studies, giving live project application examples and how they’ve integrated with external tools, such as What3Words.

Construction Cloud is today being used across a large range of projects globally. This session will demonstrate a number of use cases, including how PlanGrid is helping build and maintain railways, Assemble is being used to quantify materials in dams, BuildingConnected is being used to source subcontractors for road projects, and BIM 360 software is being used to manage complex infrastructure projects. We will also show how Autodesk partners are being used in conjunction with Construction Cloud products to help infrastructure asset owners better use the data collected on a project.

Starting a project off on the right foot not only requires having a schedule and budget in place, but also having clear processes and communication with your forepersons and trades. Learn how different project leaders have set up PlanGrid to optimize for field adoption. Learn how technology can help teams create trust and accountability from the field to the office.

Starting a project off on the right foot not only requires having a schedule and budget in place, but also having clear processes and communication with your forepersons and trades. Learn how different project leaders have set up PlanGrid to optimize for field adoption. Learn how technology can help teams create trust and accountability from the field to the office.

As an engineering firm, how do you implement PlanGrid in a department where the vast majority of projects are small, and the general contractor is not using any of these tools? We had to tweak and adjust what seems to be the intended use of PlanGrid to match our needs. We had our road map all plan for and then Covid sent all of our employees home. It forced us to reconsider our entire approach of deployment and management. At the end of the day, using tablets with PlanGrid allowed us to maintain business continuity while keeping our staff safe as they didn’t have to go to the office and plot drawings.

Join us as we have a candid and in-depth discussion about how Clayco, Inc., transitioned to the Autodesk Construction Cloud software Autodesk Build from BIM 360 and PlanGrid. This session will cover in detail the specific areas of our Autodesk Build implementation, including how we redefined account admin standards on roles and companies, how projects were onboarded to the new platform, and how Clayco, Inc., took a measured approach to its rollout of Autodesk Build modules. We will provide extensive lessons learned from our adoption, and tips on how we track the effectiveness of our Build rollout. In general, attendees will develop a deeper understanding of how a large design builder develops a framework to carefully scale up its adoption of Autodesk Build throughout its enterprise. This includes having direct and open feedback channels with key internal stakeholders, being transparent with Autodesk product managers on where improvement is specifically needed, and iteratively refining training content over time.

Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features, including BIM (Building Information Modeling), and how they can improve field-office collaboration and boost overall field productivity. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

This session is a follow-up of the class presented last year about the “Virtual construction site management with advanced workflow in BIM360” (CS468465). We will describe the improvements made this year through the adoption of the Build module including the PlanGrid Build mobile app for field workers. We’ve been widely extending the use of Construction Cloud with digitalization of other construction processes in addition of those already implemented. We are focusing our attention on setting up a workflow for safety and environmental check in the work site.Using Forge and Construction Cloud Connect, we are developing integration with other company database and Legacy IT systems, to avoid data redundancy and to build up integrated dashboards. In upcoming years we will be able to manage and improve the construction process of linear infrastructure projects with ConstructionCloud in order to improve data quality, reduce costs and time by 60%, reduce wastefulness and promote sustainability

Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features, including BIM (Building Information Modeling), and how they can improve field-office collaboration and boost overall field productivity. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

"If you want the same result, do the same thing. If you want something different, do something different." These words from the speaker’s leadership hit home when first heard as a young virtual design and construction (VDC) engineer after grinding through the first coordination project. After hitting road blocks with communicating issues in the coordination process, losing information in too many repositories, wasting time running back and forth to the trailer, and not having the data to learn what to do different, the speaker and team have created smarter workflows and processes to better plan, do, check, and perform their efforts.

Businesses waste more than trees when they rely on paper documentation to do work. They waste money. They waste time. They invite liability. Every day, businesses in our industry continue to place valuable information that can protect them on paper in the trailer, where it can get lost or damaged, or be inaccessible when needed. If you’ve ever struggled to put together a complete record drawing set or fished through boxes of loose papers for a safety document, you know how frustrating it can be to do your job with antiquated processes. In this class, we’ll show you how to get set up with a program that will help you digitize your field support and safety efforts and bring these processes into the 21st century, using advanced workflows in PlanGrid that go beyond what you can learn from the PlanGrid trainers themselves.

Learn the nuts and bolts of PlanGrid—the field’s favorite software that powers more than a million construction projects around the world. PlanGrid Consulting Manager Jessica Pollack has introduced PlanGrid to thousands of people, many of whom had never used mobile apps for construction before. Get an overview of what PlanGrid offers, and learn how to get started, and how to start using it with your teams in the field.

Construction software tools are better than ever before, and each serves an important role for your company. See what excellent software you can integrate with PlanGrid to ensure that teams in the field have the information they need to build better and share real-time intelligence from the jobsite with decision makers in the office.

With last year’s acquisition of PlanGrid, there are a lot of questions about when to use PlanGrid and when to use BIM 360 for field collaboration workflows like quality, safety and project management. This class will help to answer those questions and to provide an update on how Autodesk is working towards helping you use the solutions together effectively and efficiently. Discover the strengths of these best in class, easy to use field collaboration solutions and how Autodesk is working towards integrating BIM 360 and PlanGrid to deliver modern field collaboration solutions to the industry.  

Attendees will learn about the real issues involved with rolling new technology out to field teams. We’ll cover the overall view of technology within field operations staff. We’ll go over a brief history of mobile technology, where we’ve come from, and where we’ll be going in the next 10 years. We will present a use case at Hudson yard where we rolled out PlanGrid in the field, and we’ll go over why it worked, what struggles we had, and what major lessons we learned. And we will cover how to develop a technology implantation plan and conduct a tech rollout.

Learn the nuts and bolts of PlanGrid—the field’s favorite software that powers more than a million construction projects around the world. PlanGrid Consulting Manager Jessica Pollack has introduced PlanGrid to thousands of people, many of whom had never used mobile apps for construction before. Get an overview of what PlanGrid offers, and learn how to get started, and how to start using it with your teams in the field.