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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

New Orleans 2022

Demystifying Digital Twins

Did you know that 95% of construction data goes unused during building operations? Digital twins may change the way owners interpret and ultimately use that data, but owners have to know where to start. “Digital twin” is an industry buzzword these days, and there’s no shortage of companies who claim to be experts on these data-rich models. However, if the concept of a digital twin is going to survive its initial 15 minutes of fame, we must stop viewing digital twins as products and start seeing them for what they really are: intricately detailed processes. Every digital twin solution on the market looks and functions differently from the next. However, they all share a similar goal: to re-create a physical space in a dynamic 3D environment. But the true appeal of a digital twin lies in the data. While most digital twin solutions have figured out how to integrate data and models, only a few have figured out how to present that data in an immersive, interactive and useful way.

New Orleans 2022

Game of Inches: Digital As-Builting a 27-Year-Old NFL Stadium

Facilities of all kinds and sizes get old. After years of operations and maintenance, old records that show the as-built conditions are often destroyed or lost. In addition, several renovations and additions to the facilities add another layer of complexity if not documented properly. Any facility that was completed before the new millennium most likely involved paper-based as-built documentation. These documents are often stored away and seldom updated when changes to the facility occur. This was the case with the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL stadium where the team is looking at a bright future that include new plans for expansions and major renovation. Such major projects require extensive design efforts that can take years, with the lack of proper and accurate as-built documentation. This massive 2,200-modeling-hours effort led to an accurate and intricate as-built intelligent model of the stadium that was created from more than 575 scan hours—in just under five months.

New Orleans 2022

Total Carbon Data, Analysis, and Insights

Buildings and construction generate nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions. Of that 40%, building operations account for 28%, while building materials and construction (a.k.a., embodied carbon emissions) are responsible for 11%. Achieving zero emissions in operations requires a continued focus on energy efficiency, avoidance of the use of fossil fuels, and use of renewable energy systems. Unlike operational carbon emissions, which occur throughout the life of a building, embodied carbon emissions occur “up front” and so play a bigger role in the global carbon budget in the more immediate future. As such, it is more imperative than ever that architects and other project stakeholders start to employ total carbon analysis at all stages of every project. In this session, you’ll join Autodesk Product Development and Impact team members to learn about new data, analysis, and insights into total carbon to help make effective reductions as part of a more integrated, building information modeling (BIM)-based design process.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017

Using LOD for Coordination

In this presentation, we'll highlight how using level of development (LOD) status by element helps model authors know how complete their models are. We'll also demonstrate how, at different coordination events in a project, all parties can use LOD to indicate to each other their completion of design in the project by using the LOD score as a trigger for other dependent trades to move forward with their design efforts. For example, a structural engineer can use LOD element status in his or her own structural model to know what parts of the model are still subject to change. When the structural engineer is finished with exterior columns and many of the internal columns, those confirmed elements have a LOD status of 350. However, the steel around the internal elevator shaft area will be at a LOD status of 300 because the elevator equipment hasn't been selected yet. By visualizing the LOD status at a glance, the structural engineers know where the model still needs attention.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Going Beyond Maintenance: BIM 360 Ops for the Krause Gateway Center

Krause Gateway Center is the headquarters of the businesses of Krause Group and is located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The building opened its doors to Krause Group associates in November 2018. Krause and Baker Group collaboratively selected BIM 360 Ops software as the maintenance management software for this innovative and unique building. Baker Group has worked with the BIM 360 Ops team to go beyond just the standard ticketing and building maintenance process. During this session, we’ll cover the integration of indoor mapping, sensor alerts, and interaction of existing work processes that have evolved throughout the last two years. We’ll also discuss lessons learned and steps taken to streamline the BIM 360 Ops workflow, including working sessions discussion with the facilities team, interaction with the building technicians, and the modification of the workflow to meet the needs of a highly collaborative work environment.

New Orleans 2022

Accelerating Engineering Workflows in the Process Industry with Autodesk Forge

Are you struggling to maximize all the benefits of going digital? Like many industries, the process industry struggles in the adoption of the efficiencies of digital. Whether designing a plant from scratch, modifying an existing installation, or upgrading old equipment—vendor and EPC collaboration for a single equipment tag can still take hours, stacks of printed paper drawings are still supplied in submittal, and CAD assets can be disconnected or are sometimes unavailable. Learn how Emerson has maximized Autodesk Forge software to help accelerate industry digital transformation by improving the digital customer experience. Autodesk Forge is the platform that connects enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM), and business logic—providing a complete CAD configuration experience on MyEmerson and Emerson.com. Learn also how this digital platform backbone enables a future of asset management, design automation, common data environments, IoT visualization, and digital twins.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

Networking Autodesk Products Beyond Z

Autodesk, Inc., licensing expert Jerry Milana has helped hundreds of companies implement, troubleshoot, and maintain Autodesk license management systems over the last 20-plus years. Jerry will share proven, successful concepts that will save your company money and spare you headaches. Starting the license manager and getting the applications to the desktop are important first steps; but there is more to responsible software-asset management. Ongoing management is needed if you want to keep the help desk quiet and maximize your company’s software investment. This course will help you understand the tools and techniques available to you and the compelling reasons to implement them.