Every building truly does have its price. One of the most time-consuming items during the estimation process is when we perform and complete a building takeoff. In this session we will teach you how to use Navisworks Manage 2015 software's Quantification workflows to help you minimize your time doing quantification. We will use 3D models (Revit Architecture software) and 2D DWF technology documents to complete our tasks in this class. You will learn to understand Navisworks Manage 2015 software's Quantification interface and the tools in the software, and you will leave the class feeling ready to tackle coming quantification challenges.

Using only Revit software during the schematic design phase of the project enables you to quickly explore design alternatives through iterative design. Tapping into the information-rich models for quantity takeoffs helps to produce more accurate cost estimates, compressing the timeline from design to procurement to construction, virtually eliminating errors and omissions, and reducing the likelihood of RFIs and change orders. With integrated analysis for energy and carbon, you gain design insight where the most important design decisions are made. Perform wind and solar radiation analysis with user-friendly tools. Conduct cloud-based whole building energy analysis with web-based software. Optimize energy efficiency, and work toward carbon neutrality earlier in the design process. With faster, more accurate energy analysis of building design proposals, architects and designers can work with sustainability in mind earlier in the process, plan proactively, and build better.

Every building truly does have its price and one of the most time-consuming items during the estimation process is to perform and complete a building takeoff. In this hands-on lab, we teach you how to use Navisworks Manage 2014 Quantification workflows to help you minimize your time doing takeoffs. We use 3D models (Revit® Architecture software) to complete our tasks in this class. You learn to understand the Navisworks Manage 2014 Quantification software interface and the tools in the software, and leave the class feeling ready to tackle the coming takeoff challenges.

This session will focus on how to encourage the use of the model in low-adoption sectors and get the most out of the models during preconstruction. Andy Gajbhiye and Daniel Olivares from Joeris General Contractors will cover how you can use models during preconstruction in low-adoption sectors, or when the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process is not required. We will share best practices for quickly conditioning models, performing takeoff, comparing versions, monitoring design progress, and collaborating with Assemble Insight software to greatly improve preconstruction workflows and gain a competitive edge in a competitive market. The team will also focus on the route to developing an implementation strategy and bringing a change in mindset for using models effectively.

This class will highlight the use of Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software to streamline the preconstruction process for creating cost estimates based on building information models from multiple sources. We will use a recent case study to show off the ability of Quantity Takeoff to maximize the translation of information from the intelligent models into the contractor's estimate. The presentation will highlight the workflow changes inherent when moving from traditional 2D drawings, binders, and spreadsheets to a dynamic, integrated 5D model. This process enables efficient identification and resolution of potential issues. You will learn how to visually communicate the various cost impacts on the estimate to the building owner, designers, and other project stakeholders during and beyond the preconstruction phase. Another Quantity Takeoff benefit is early collaboration between architect and contractor that leads to greater efficiency and reduced risk for owners during construction, at project turnover, and throughout the life of the building.

The construction industry is currently facing a gap between the digital tools for field management and ERP (enterprise resource planning) in office. Although we've started using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and field apps for collaboration, data still remains siloed and fragmented, which leads to cost overruns and time delays. This class will cover how to use the Forge platform and the BIM 360 API to generate construction schedule and quantity takeoff for project controls and predictive analytics. Using model derivative API, we'll show you how you can generate schedule, quantity takeoff, or map with existing data instantly. You will learn how to compare cost and time impact. Learn how you can use BIM on the job site through easy-to-use mobile interface to exchange data about quantities, quality, manpower, and progress-and visualize it in a 4D and 5D environment. Finally, learn how you can apply predictive analytics to generate accurate schedule and cost estimation, and get early actionable insights into cost overruns and time delays.

Model-based quantification has long been one of the promising applications of Building Information Modeling (BIM). As many in the industry have, Holder Construction has found ways to pull quantities from models to drive project estimation. In this presentation, we will share some of our tools and processes. Additionally, we will discuss many model-based quantification tools currently available, and why there continues to be a need for better tools built for preconstruction and estimating professionals. This session features Revit, BIM 360 Glue, and Navisworks Manage. AIA Approved

Revit intelligent models provide great metrics and the tools to manage them for most standard customer needs. However, in some specific workflows (for example, estimating and construction planning), despite the precise physical model, using original elements and/or parts, some crucial and accurate metrics may not be available via standard parameters and tools. In this class, the presenter will share many such examples and Revit API solutions for each, gained throughout his extensive career in the Autodesk DevCon and Consulting Divisions. Most specifically, he will present some findings gained during the last 3 years of intensive collaboration with Vinci Construction, together with their BIM developers. Solutions and some sample code will be provided for areas from specific small tasks (more-precise material takeoff from layered walls, metrics for all parts, metrics for “gross” walls, and so on) to more-extensive solution frameworks, such as custom parameters development and management based on custom abstract API classes.

This class demonstrates how to use Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software to estimate a project during early design. You will learn how to take advantage of intelligent model-linked workflows from Autodesk Revit software and how to perform estimate updates as the project design progresses.

Site grading with AutoCAD Civil 3D software has traditionally fallen short of what we think of as true 3D modeling. We typically generate a finished grade surface, but we're not truly modeling our site, including curb, sidewalk, ponds, subgrade, and so on. Well, all this changes with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 software and the new features that finally make site design with Corridors a realistic option. New features, such as Corridor Baselines from Feature Lines and "bow-tie" cleanup, enable much more-dynamic and more-stable site models then previously found with traditional Feature Line-only and Grading Object workflows. This class will walk through how to set up a truly dynamic Corridor site model, showing realistic application of new and long-hidden features in AutoCAD Civil 3D. We'll then show how you can harness this data-rich model, including Quantity Takeoff (QTO) in both AutoCAD Civil 3D and Navisworks software, as well as site creation in Revit software. Come join us and learn how site grading just got a whole lot better!

Are you using AutoCAD Civil 3D software on a transportation project and still struggling to solve construction earthwork problems? If you fall under either one of these categories, consider attending this class: (1) you have struggled with bridging the gap between the old cross-section methods in CAiCE™ Visual® Transportation software or AutoCAD® Land Desktop software and the new methods in Civil 3D, or (2) you are convinced that Civil 3D cannot handle the cross section solutions and therefore cannot replace the old software already mentioned. In this class, we will use review using Civil 3D as a complete construction quantification tool. We will cover strategizing for success, editing surfaces; editing sections; creating Autodesk® Quantity Takeoff criteria that will work for your situation, creating material quantities; adding earthwork exceptions; and reporting earthwork to Microsoft® Excel®.

Every building truly does have its price! One of the most time-consuming items during the estimation process performing and completing a building takeoff. In this session we will teach you how to use Navisworks Manage 2016 Quantification software workflows to help you minimize your time doing quantification. We will use 3D models (Revit Architecture software) and 2D DWF documents to complete our tasks in this class. You’ll learn to understand the Navisworks Manage 2016 Quantification software interface and the tools in the software, and you’ll leave the class feeling ready to tackle the coming quantification challenges.

In this presentation, Skanska USA Building will share one of its approaches for integrating model-based takeoffs in the preconstruction process. We’ll present the workflows and toolsets for using design models in conceptual, schematic, and design development in regards to quantity takeoff. The presentation will highlight benefits of using Assemble for model-based takeoff, as well as the process of extracting quantities, conditioning and validating 3D models, and understanding how the available data can be used and enriched for downstream workflows. We’ll present Skanska workflows and lesson plans and how we’re training our teams on the use of Assemble on a national level. This session will cover lessons learned during implementation and training and best practices identified during the implementation.

Revit options can be used for comparing one build option to another. Applying a practical approach using real-world data, you can refine quantities and assign them values for reasonably accurate materials cost analysis. This takes a small residence and focuses on user-created tools for landscaping counts and costs; decorative fence takeoffs using curtain wall components; data and material sourcing and application to generating schedules for bills of materials—using data readily available for local resources. This small real-world example scales up to larger applications, using the same tools and techniques for specific approaches and generalized approaches, for easily swappable families with immediate results.

This class will provide an introduction to creating custom subassemblies using the Subassembly Composer and then using these subassemblies for doing quantity takeoff for corridors using the various custom codes included in the subassembly.

The 65,000-square-meter (70,000-square-foot) offices of Ilot Fontenoy-Ségur (IFS)—located in the heart of Paris’s 7th arrondissement near the Eiffel Tower—is a major renovation project for the French government. The client’s most notable requirement is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) model with facility-management capabilities. Our team at VINCI Construction France is currently in charge of BIM management for this project, which includes providing Revit software templates for architecture, structure, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) to all stakeholders. We also ensure the training of all the project members involved and the review of all models according to a predefined BIM-guideline set up in partnership with the facility manager (data codification, levels of details, and information). In addition to Revit software, we also used Revit software’s API and BIMLink to quickly implement information. All the 3D models are used during the current construction phase for 3D coordination, quantity takeoffs, drawings, and on-site communication with our building workers.

This unique class will review key workflows required to go from concept design proposals to detailed design cost estimates. Our mission is to create 2 concept-level designs for a new municipal spine roadway and trunk sewer and compare the cost of works for each scenario. We will start with a detailed look at InfraWorks 360 software and demonstrate the workflows required to build our 2 new proposals. Then we will connect our concept-level design to AutoCAD Civil 3D software to detail the roadway and sewer designs. We will look at the various quantity takeoff tools found in AutoCAD Civil 3D software and export both AutoCAD software and AutoCAD Civil 3D object data to formats that you can use for estimating. To complete the class we will introduce a new cloud-based cost-estimating system called AEC Tender. Using AEC Tender, we can connect to data extracted from our detailed design and generate detailed cost estimates for both scenarios within minutes using past project construction unit costs.

This presentation will review and demonstrate the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) software-development effort to implement AutoCAD Civil 3D software for state and consultant designers. We will examine a sampling of custom tools and applications created by FDOT on the Custom Ribbon to increase productivity and plans consistency using AutoCAD Civil 3D software. We will cover the following sample of FDOT applications: FDOT Takeoff Manager—an application that enables users to create automated Quantity reports in Microsoft Excel; FDOT Entity Manager—which enables the user to draw graphical entities with pay item data for Quantity Takeoff (QTO) preattached, or place the pay item data on entities after they are drawn; FDOT Signs—which enables the user to design sign assemblies and place them into the drawing with pay items attached; and Create File—an application that enables users to create files based on discipline and sync with the proper Templates. The newly created files are then saved to the project folder hierarchy. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D. AIA Approved

Helping the community visualize a project’s impact before construction is complete can be very difficult unless you use the right tools for the job. This class explores conceptual site-design options using InfraWorks 360 software to visualize realistic proposed sites. Starting with Model Builder and Revit software models, you will learn how to create realistic and accurate models that support a more informative and productive public-communication model. After clearly demonstrating the conceptual and preliminary design to stakeholders, we take the design into AutoCAD Civil 3D software to run quantity takeoffs and finish the detailed design. The design is then taken back into InfraWorks 360 software to create high-impact visuals to better support public participation and communication. We will perform various types of analysis along the way to validate the design and ensure design parameters are being met.

Revit building design software is an extremely capable modeler for different disciplines, but using it for modeling simpler items such as furniture, toys, dollhouses, decks, and more can be a very rewarding experience. This class demonstrates the use of Revit on a smaller scale to create drawings, quantity takeoffs, renders, and cut sheets for home projects. Real-world examples are shown from conception to fabrication. As the BIM director working for a firm with over 700 employees, there is always a challenging project underway that requires in-depth planning, technological innovation, and complex workflows. After this work is done, it is a pleasure to kick back and use Revit to model something fun! This class focuses on using Revit to create models for the weekend warrior who is not afraid to build, create, and fabricate items at home.