With rising material costs and razor-thin margins, construction takeoff—including accurate material quantification and cost estimates—is essential to starting and executing jobs on budget and on time. Forma Takeoff, with centralized 2D and 3D takeoffs, allows estimating teams to update quantities in real time, using the most up-to-date design files. By connecting existing building information modeling (BIM) data, Forma Takeoff can reduce takeoff and estimating times by 25% or more, minimize the risk of missed quantities, and guarantee accurate data capture. In this technical instruction, Edwin Bailey (senior preconstruction technology manager at Skanska) will showcase the workflows, techniques, and best practices for using Forma Takeoff, with real-world examples from Skanska's Class A Montrose project in Houston, Texas, among other examples.

Meet with product experts from Autodesk to hear what functionality has recently been released for Forma Data Management, Forma Takeoff, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate, and what features are on the upcoming road map.

Join experts on Forma Data Management software, Autodesk BIM Collaborate software, and Forma Takeoff software to hear about recent improvements made to the products, as well as what the teams are eyeing on the horizon.

Even with the enhancements of building information modeling (BIM) workflows, the estimators have struggled to take off quantities accurately due to the lack of "information" in the BIM data. Add to that the complexity of combining 3D takeoffs with 2D drawings, and the estimators have a never-ending nightmare. The result is either not winning the job, or winning with not much profit. This is where Forma Takeoff—the cloud-based 2D and 3D quantity takeoff (QTO) tool from Autodesk Forma—is proving to be a gamechanger. With the industry-leading, automated, 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools, Forma Takeoff allows estimators to generate accurate bids and win more jobs. This class will focus on showing the capabilities of the connected takeoff process using the BIM data hosted on the Autodesk Forma project. You’ll learn about the automated 3D takeoffs and how to combine them with the customizable 2D takeoffs to generate accurate bids. You’ll also learn how to review changes in design and update your takeoffs.

This case study session will explore the benefits of using Forma Takeoff software to use quantification data as a design tool throughout the building design process. As architects, we often overlook the importance of quantification and cost during the early phases of design, typically generating an unwelcome dose of reality downstream, leading to rework and intensive design changes. What if we could predict with greater fidelity and confidence the cost of our design in near real time, as we're designing and progressing Revit models. This was exactly our goal with implementing Takeoff. Reviewing case study projects, we'll demonstrate how we were able to bridge the gap between design intent and project budgets—thus, allowing 3D quantification through Takeoff to guide decision making during design, promote model quality throughout production, and rally project stakeholders around the same data within a collaborative Autodesk Forma environment.

Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals want to create cost-effective, sustainable projects and are looking for technologies, standards, and processes to help them make trade-offs between financial and environmental costs during design and preconstruction. Forward-looking firms—including Walsh Construction and SNHA (a Woolpert Company)—took part in a pilot to test new integration between Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) and Forma Takeoff, the 2D and 3D quantification solution. Using quantities from Forma Takeoff, EC3 users can review the embodied carbon emissions of proposed building materials. Further, it can connect the quantities and carbon emissions to the International Cost Management Standard (ICMS), a framework that provides mythology for reporting and for classifying project costs and carbon emissions in a structured format. Come see the integration and hear from industry leaders about their sustainability goals as they share feedback and lessons learned.

As more projects are being mandated to demonstrate reduced carbon impact during construction, managing contractors are now tasked with finding solutions to easily calculate and track the change in materials that affect Green Star ratings for their clients. This presentation will show you how Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) can use the project models using Forma Takeoff and the EC3 plug-in to effectively report and track carbon offsets to international standards.

Arcadis was able to reduce the risk and improve productivity in the processing of hundreds of change orders for the California High-Speed Rail project. The team struggled using Microsoft SharePoint in the management of the volumes of information, and had no automated way for quantity verification. Introducing Forma Build software into this large infrastructure project provided a better platform in the organization of the information and data. Adding Forma Takeoff software to the team’s workflow improved the productivity of verifying quantities of the submitted change orders, boosting estimate productivity by 50%.

The mission of the SE 2050 Commitment is to support the SE 2050 Challenge and transform the practice of structural engineering in a holistic, firm-wide, project-based, and data-driven way. By prioritizing reduction of embodied carbon through the use of less and/or less-impactful structural materials, participating firms can more easily work toward net-zero embodied carbon structural systems by 2050. But how do we get this data? That’s where Forma Takeoff software can help take your 2D and 3D model information from Revit software to visualize and view your embodied carbon data.

The complexity of bid packages, which combine 3D models and 2D drawings, has estimators worldwide struggling to calculate accurate quantities. The added pressure of receiving updated bid packages has also caused estimators to work long hours and have sleepless nights. The result is either not winning the job or winning with little profit. This is where Forma Takeoff software—the cloud-based 2D and 3D QTO tool hosted on Autodesk Forma—is proving to be a game changer. This lab will focus on giving attendees a hands-on experience of the connected takeoff process using the industry-leading automated 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools. You'll learn the process of setting up 3D and 2D takeoff types, adding unit cost to takeoff types, performing accurate takeoffs, updating the bid package with the new set of drawings, comparing existing snapshots to active takeoff currently in progress, and then exporting the combined 3D and 2D takeoff inventory.

In today’s competitive construction landscape, estimators are often caught in the chaos of juggling 2D drawings and 3D models across ever-changing bid packages. Long nights, rushed numbers, and missed margins are all too common. Enter Forma Takeoff software—a powerful, cloud-based solution on Autodesk Forma that brings clarity, accuracy, and connection to your quantification process. In this hands-on lab, you’ll experience firsthand how Takeoff transforms the way quantity takeoffs are performed. Whether you're working in 2D, 3D, or both, this class will walk you through the complete connected workflow—from setting up customized takeoff types and applying unit costs, to managing drawing revisions and comparing snapshots mid-process. By the end, you'll know how to deliver faster, smarter, and more accurate takeoffs that give your team the competitive edge in bidding.

Performing quantity takeoff can be a time-consuming and laborious process, but it doesn't have to be. Many in the industry are still using desktop-based 2D takeoff solutions that lack the collaboration, standardization, and transparency that is essential to running a fine-tuned estimating team. Join this session to see how the pre-construction and estimating teams at Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee are turning to Forma Takeoff—a cloud-based 2D/3D quantification solution—to improve collaboration, increase takeoff accuracy, and reduce takeoff time, ensuring everyone is working off the latest project documents. You'll see how leading general contractors use Forma Takeoff to tackle project challenges while quantifying project scope. Join this lively discussion to see real-life case studies and walk away knowing how you too can improve your takeoff processes and say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming workflows.

Model-based takeoff for linear civil projects sounds great, until Civil 3D-to-IFC exports leave out the quantities and metadata needed to actually price the work. In this session, Kyle Field and Josh Boardman from ISL Engineering will show how they used Civil 3D, Dynamo, and Autodesk Forma Takeoff software to bridge that gap. You will see how custom Civil 3D property sets can turn 3D solids into takeoff-ready bid items by embedding missing length and area data, carrying standardized bid item information, and making model objects easier to isolate and quantify. The result is a more scalable workflow with less retracing, stronger QA/QC, and cleaner estimating outputs for linear civil projects.

In this class, we'll discuss how Autodesk Forma can help a project management consultancy be more efficient by tracking project key performance indicators (KPIs) related to schedule and cost control through Forma Data Management, Forma Takeoff, Forma Build, and Autodesk Forma Connect. We'll take a closer look at how users can save time and easily track deliverables into Forma Data Management and Forma Build automatically. By combining Autodesk Forma (cloud platform) to Autodesk Forma Connect (ready-to-use integration platform), users can create their own custom applications using "recipes,” and follow the delivered models and drawings. We'll also learn how to track the evolution of design quantity takeoffs based on the Autodesk takeoff to make strategic and efficient business decisions relying on real-time project data. By harnessing the power of Autodesk Forma connected to Autodesk Forma Connect, we'll learn how to store the extracted data in an SQL database and automatically connect it to a Power BI dashboard streamlining proficient reporting.

Heirloom Carbon, a direct air capture (DAC) company, shares how its infrastructure team turned Autodesk Forma (including Forma Data Management, Forma Build, and Forma Takeoff) into a reliable, daily delivery platform. Like many architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) teams, they faced inconsistent onboarding, fragmented document control, and unclear governance across projects. This session will break down how the team established a scalable common data environment (CDE) through standardized templates, permissions, and workflows issues. You'll see how they improved collaboration, reduced rework, and increased delivery capacity, and you'll understand what failed or took longer than expected. Walk away with a practical playbook to configure and standardize Autodesk Forma for consistent, scalable project delivery.

There are still obstacles to sustainable design. Construction professionals know they must build faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably to meet global demands. The industry is moving away from waste and inefficiency, and is adopting smarter processes, connected teams, and workflows that ensure the right people have access to the data they need to make timely and confident decisions. That's why we need Revit software as a modeling tool; Autodesk Forma software with its conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and design automation to help us to select the most-sustainable options in the early stages of the design process; Forma Data Management software as our common data environment (CDE) and single source of truth; Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between all project teams; Model Coordination for running efficient model coordination and automatic clash detection; Forma Build software for improved project, cost, and safety management; and Forma Takeoff software for early quantifications and estimations.

Unleash the power of Autodesk Forma to revolutionize your structural engineering and design workflows. The architecture, engineering, and construction industry bears a $280 billion annual cost due to ineffective project data and communication. In this session, you will learn to master design changes and manage the intricacies of your designs through diverse design-review workflows in Forma Data Management software. Discover how to avoid expensive rework by finding model clashes using Autodesk BIM Collaborate software. Witness how Forma Takeoff software enhances the quality of your design through an effective model conditioning process. Explore Forma Build software to learn how to proficiently manage risk and quality during the construction phase, easily handling RFIs, submittals, photos, and site observations. Join us and step into a future of seamless design and construction management for structural engineering.

There are many challenges and conflicting priorities for scaling model-based estimating. This presentation will discuss these challenges and the process Barton Malow Builders implemented to establish a more uniform practice and reliably deliver model-driven quantification for all our projects. We will mention how these methods need to fit with our overall estimating process, and the team adaptation that is needed. We will also cover how other innovations from Autodesk—such as Forma Takeoff and Autodesk Forma capabilities—can influence progress.

BuildingConnected has long been the backbone for bid management and subcontractor qualification at Miller Davis. As early beta users, Miller Davis has worked closely with Autodesk to test workflows that bring BuildingConnected into Autodesk Forma alongside Autodesk Forma Takeoff and Autodesk Forma Estimate. The Miller Davis team will share how Forma Bid helps reduce tool fragmentation and keeps preconstruction work connected within a single environment. We'll discuss lessons learned from early adoption, and we'll walk through familiar workflows reimagined in Forma including RFP management, multiple proposals per project, bidder recommendations, qualification insights, bid leveling, and flexible reporting. The Autodesk product team will join to support the discussion.

What comes before any successful construction project? An accurate estimate is a good place to start. You have a lot to gain from a standardized pre-con environment in Autodesk Forma, from the first schematic drawings brought into Forma Data Management software then quantified in Forma Takeoff software. In this hands-on lab, you’ll gain firsthand experience in quantifying a new project’s design the right way. What we'll give you: Step 1: A standard project template will offer your team a playbook to follow for Management. Step 2: Typical items you need are present for you to quantify on the new project. What you’ll do: Step 3: (This is the hands-on part.) In accessible interactive activities, you’ll apply advanced 2D and 3D quantification tools. You’ll translate project scope into material, labor, and equipment costs to generate an accurate project estimate. Come work with us to experience the value Autodesk Forma can bring to your pre-con workflows.