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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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Conversational BIM: From Prompts to Projects

Traditional BIM workflows demand technical expertise, often excluding those without specialized training. This session will introduce a new approach that integrates large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, into architectural design to simplify BIM generation. By using natural-language commands, users can generate architectural models in tools like Revit software without relying on sliders, scripts, or detailed software knowledge. We’ll demonstrate a working prototype that translates everyday instructions—such as, “create a two-story apartment with eight rooms”—into editable BIM elements. This talk will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can bridge the gap between language and design, opening BIM access to architects, developers, and even nonexperts. Join us to rethink the future of modeling—from clicking to conversing.

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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Design-to-Configuration: Your Rules in Forma and Revit Via Dynamo

This class will teach you how to automate decision making by applying predefined business logic and rules to data inside Dynamo software. We’ll demonstrate how to push and pull this data into Forma and Revit software to achieve predictable design outcomes that meet your BIM and virtual design and construction (VDC) requirements. Understand how to structure your logic to drive step-by-step configuration processes, delivering building models that precisely match your company’s desired outputs. This class will provide tangible solutions, whether the goal is to rapidly iterate through design options in Forma based on product constraints or to automatically generate precise geometry for construction drawings and fabrication models in Revit based on predefined company standards. By the end of this class, you’ll be equipped with the foundational knowledge and practical insights to begin implementing logic-driven design automation within your own organizations and see how building configuration is possible.

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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Early-Stage Precision: Eliminating Designer Error with Informed Design

In early design stages, assumptions become liabilities. They can result in late design changes, costly rework, and coordination issues, often due to low-quality models early on. The Informed Design API closes the gap between BIM and manufacturing, bringing manufacturing detail from Inventor to Revit through parametric models. We’ll explore how Informed Design empowers mechanical designers and Inventor users to contribute to collaborative, model-driven design remotely, reducing downstream changes and saving significant time through design automation and configurability. In this session, you will learn how to build parametric models, and incorporate rules, regulations, and limits into your Inventor models. We’ll discuss how to make your Informed Design models fully BIM-compliant, using best practices for naming conventions, metadata, and interoperable design intelligence. We’ll cover how Informed Design reduces risk, encourages better decision making, and brings manufacturing to the front of the design cycle.

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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Constructing Tomorrow: Scaling Up with Industrialized Construction—More Bang for Your Build!

“Industrialized construction” refers to the transformation of traditional construction methods through techniques, prefabrication, and digital technologies. This approach aims to enhance efficiency, scalability, and in the construction industry. By using digital technologies—including BIM, MID (manufacturing informed design), production design, automation, and modular construction—industrialized construction streamlines the design-to-construction process, reducing waste, costs, and project timelines. In this session, we’ll explore workflows that seamlessly integrate design, engineering, manufacturing, and construction, fostering collaboration and innovation. All of these workflows for industrialized construction empower stakeholders to build smarter, greener, and more resilient structures, meeting the demands of modern urbanization and environmental challenges.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Design to Fabrication: Streamlining MEP Models with Cloud-Based Collaboration and Automation

Turning a design-stage MEP BIM model into a fabrication-ready (LOD 400) model using Fabrication MEP parts is one of the most critical and complex phases in the project lifecycle. Once IFC files and construction drawings are handed off, the responsibility shifts to general contractors and subcontractors to ensure constructability, meet engineering standards, and align with fabrication requirements. This session will demonstrate how Construction Cloud , AutoCAD or Revit with Fabrication MEP parts, curated MEP database sets, custom scripts and powerful add-ins enhance model refinement. You’ll discover how early modeling decisions reduce waste, improve rerouting, and accelerate field installation. By resolving fabrication needs in the model, teams reduce material use and empower crews with ready-to-build content. Whether you're a GC or MEP subcontractor working toward high-detail prefab, this session offers the tools to bridge design and construction empower by the cloud base tools.

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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Seeing Inside Walls: Using AI to Extend Scan-to-BIM for Material Circularity

Buildings contribute to more than 40% of global carbon emissions, and one key scalable solution is to reuse and upgrade existing buildings and materials instead of constructing new ones. This session showcases how Autodesk Research is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) for net-zero buildings in the context of existing building projects. The team is exploring two AI-driven prototypes: one is about assessing a building’s existing conditions with limited and multimodal data. This enables AECO professionals to "see inside walls"—similarly to an “x-ray view”—and cataloging hidden materials including their potential for reusability without destructive testing. The second AI-driven prototype involves creating new low-carbon assemblies using repurposed materials. With this workflow users can specify high-level goals like “reuse materials”, “reduce carbon” and “minimize cost” and interactively explore many different options. The presentation highlights potential integration opportunities with relevant Autodesk platform features, demonstrating how designers, contractors, and building owners can make informed decisions that significantly minimize carbon footprint while creating new economic value from existing assets.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revolutionizing Project Management: How India’s Largest EPC Uses 5D BIM Dashboards and ACC for Connected Workflows

This case study highlights the deployment of a 5D BIM Power BI dashboard on an airport project valued at $420 million. Developed by L&T Construction—India’s largest engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm—the dashboard integrated Revit software and Construction Cloud to streamline progress monitoring and billing. Tackling key challenges like complex stakeholder coordination and data fragmentation, the solution improved transparency, reduced manual errors, and sped up decision making. The integration of models, documents, and workflows in the cloud created a synchronized construction environment, enhancing cost control and governance. This digital-first approach minimized paper-based processes and resource redundancies, driving operational . This case underscores the transformative power of connected construction, demonstrating how cloud-based platforms and BIM can foster efficiency, accountability, and environmental responsibility at scale.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

DLF’s Journey Toward Smarter, Faster, Sharper Construction Delivery Across a 50-Million-Square-Foot Portfolio

Discover how DLF’s shift from static documents to real-time data has enabled faster decisions, tighter coordination, and smarter outcomes—setting a new benchmark for insight-led, sustainable project delivery in India. DLF is redefining construction delivery across a portfolio spanning more than 50 million square feet through one of the most significant s in the history of real estate in the Indian subcontinent. Powered by Construction Cloud, DLF has connected the dots between design, execution, and intelligence by integrating 3D BIM coordination, real-time Power BI dashboards, and live APIs. This move toward paperless project sites has not only driven operational efficiency, but also contributed to a meaningful reduction in the company’s carbon footprint.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Field: Using Autodesk Tools for Connected BIM Coordination

At LGES Project Alpha—a large-scale, fast-track battery manufacturing facility—delivering under pressure required tightly connected workflows and real-time data visibility. This case study explores how Revit software, Navisworks software, and Construction Cloud were integrated to create a connected project ecosystem that supports Digital Workplace development and field execution. Revit served as the foundation for BIM and Digital Workplace modeling. Navisworks enabled clash detection and model federation. And Construction Cloud provided a centralized platform for document control, issue tracking, and field communication. These tools streamlined coordination, accelerated decision making, and reduced rework. This session will highlight workflows that connected architects, engineers, and trade partners—showing how digital coordination created accountability and visibility across all phases. It will also cover lessons learned from managing model updates, subcontractor input, and construction sequencing in megaprojects.

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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Zero to Build-Ready: How We Automated Project Setup with Construction Cloud Templates

One click of “Create Project” in Construction Cloud, and, like magic, folders auto-populate, design workflows activate, and dashboards light up—all before you can even finish brewing your coffee. Join us to unpack how our virtual design and construction (VDC) and design teams built an Construction Cloud template that cuts setup from weeks to hours. Learn how we preconfigured rules (clash detection on the cloud!), embedded structured folders, and auto-populated Assets settings. We’ll demo how designers now sync Revit models to Construction Cloud sheets with one click, while on-site teams track steel installations via prebuilt Assets dashboards with no Python PhD required. “This way, teams can focus on the important aspects of designing,” says our lead design manager. Discover how Construction Cloud templates auto-invite team members, assign permissions, and deploy build settings, not admin work. This is perfect for general contractors, VDC pros, and design managers expecting to leave with actionable steps to replicate our framework.

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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.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

BIM on Track: Interdisciplinary Design for Large-Scale Railway Projects

Railway projects include many disciplines: rail superstructure, civil works, tunnels, viaducts, road bridges, culverts, systems, and so on. In large-scale international projects, many parties are involved in the design and construction process. And the integration of all information in Construction Cloud coming from different tools—such as InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks Manage, and Twinmotion—enables the full BIM methodology implementation on a railway project. Autodesk tools also allow stakeholders to manage the project in the real geographical context, and to facilitate the production of photorealistic videos and virtual reality (VR) experiences for stakeholder engagement.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Eyes in the Sky, Intelligence on the Ground: Boosting Site Safety and Efficiency with Drones and GeoAI

This session will explore how current drone imagery and GeoAI are transforming jobsites into smarter, safer, and more connected environments. Discover how leading firms like Brasfield & Gorrie are using drones to reduce utility strikes, identify hazards before they become accidents, and ensure real-time safety compliance. See how automated aerial data collection is being seamlessly integrated into CAD and geographic information system (GIS) environments—supercharging workflows in Autodesk Civil 3D software and beyond. We’ll showcase how GeoAI is merging spatial intelligence with design data to unlock faster decisions, greater transparency, and safer outcomes. Through compelling case studies, technical insights, and best practices, you’ll walk away with a playbook for putting aerial data and AI-driven insights to work. Don’t miss this interactive session packed with real-world examples, proven strategies, and a live Q&A.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Workplace: 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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Legacy to : Scan. Model. Transform.

Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the . We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Construction Cloud, while Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the and Digital Workplace.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Intro to Using BIM and Digital Workplaces

This will be an introduction to how MEP design consultants can contribute to Digital Workplace workflows in building projects. We’ll highlight lessons learned and best practices for managing and exchanging data throughout the project lifecycle using BIM tools.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Digital Project Delivery: The Keystone to a Sustainable Built Environment

is a pipe dream if you cannot accurately predict, model, and monitor your building’s content and energy usage. Without digital project delivery focused on the specific needs of the building end use—not the needs of national or international standards—we cannot even begin to accurately and predictably lower the energy used by and embodied within our built assets. By using products such as Construction Cloud alongside traditional delivery tools such as Revit and Civil 3D software, the Buro Happold Information Management team are driving without uttering the word. By breaking BIM down into its constituent parts, we’re able to work with our clients to create a project data standard that takes the guesswork out of designing, building, and operating a building—and feeds the future by ensuring that we have a stock of buildings that can tell us how good our decisions were and if they’re operating as we hoped they would.

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