Delivering today’s high-performance projects requires more than a great design—it requires data-driven decision making and integrated collaboration from day one. In this panel, leaders from Bristol-Myers Squibb (owner), Windover Construction (construction manager), and Thornton Tomasetti (design engineer) will share how aligning goals and innovative solutions early unlocks certainty of outcomes across design, construction, and operations. This session will provide a complete 360-degree view into how owner, contract manager, and design teams collaborate to solve challenges, foster innovation, and deliver successful projects in highly technical and regulated environments. Through real-life case studies—including life sciences, manufacturing, residential, and institutional projects—you’ll learn how BIM workflows, BIM-MEP coordination, artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Workplaces, and constructability strategies drive efficiency, improve compliance, and create lasting value from planning through project delivery.

3D printed organs made from your own cells? It sounds like science fiction, but the biotech industry is headed in that direction thanks in part to recent advancements in 3D printing by Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, LLC, a subsidiary of Autodesk Platinum Partner, Advanced Solutions, Inc. During this class, hear firsthand from Michael Golway, President & CEO of Advanced Solutions. He will tell the story of bringing the BioAssemblyBot™ and TSIM™ Lab Quest tabletop workstation to market using Autodesk Digital Prototyping processes. This integrated 3D printing workstation empowers physicians, researchers, engineers, and scientists to design, visualize, simulate, and analyze 3D models of complex tissue structures.

Join Fluor as the team highlights the company’s BIM (Building Information Modeling) journey throughout the last 10 years within the advanced technology and life science sector. Fluor has seen a dramatic shift in client expectations, EPCV demands, and subcontractor and supplier sophistication that have changed the BIM landscape in some new and exciting ways. Fluor will walk though some innovated methods the firm’s implemented to meet the challenges facing the industry. The focus will be on use of Autodesk collaboration tools such as Navisworks software and BIM 360 software to support a focused approach to client involvement; better BIM data management; and collaboration that supports an integrated project delivery (IPD) strategy to capitalize on worldwide resources. Fluor will also highlight some of the industry lean execution principles that are accomplished utilizing the BIM process, and how Fluor has focused on upfront team alignment through use of concise BIM execution plans (BEP) and alignment meetings.

Understand the power of models, data, and management working and evolving together with shared tools across one environment. Through the lens of a vast, 270,000 sf greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing facility project, CRB shares how their team flowed through multiple phases from design to operations for this advanced digital facility. This session outlines how data and models from previous phases of a project can be used to better inform and improve the subsequent phases and the overall optimization of a factory’s production. Supporting the facility, tools like ACC, Revit, and Plant 3D enabled effective project, document, and field management, with to support turnover and proactively avoid issues. Autodesk tools continued to shake hands and support the project through factory operations, with tools like FlexSim to justify the business case, develop operating strategies, and detect future production inefficiencies.

How can university research help us transition to net zero? PrintCity has six large research projects (€50 million) that enhance sustainability and the circular economy transition to reduce our impact on the environment. Projects span a range of industries and grand challenges to make new materials and more-sustainable products, and extend the life of electronics. With an advanced digital manufacturing facility, PrintCity’s research is delivered by a multidisciplinary team that is passionate about sustainability and proud to work for the United Kingdom’s #1 Greenest University, Manchester Metropolitan. Projects include producing 95%-98% recycled FDM filaments from single-use plastics, 3D-printing concrete to replace virgin sand with recycled aggregates (demolition waste), and using 3D printing for repair. Learn how Autodesk Fusion 360 software is being used to design new, more sustainable products. Learn more about how PrintCity’s sustainability research is helping us transition to net zero.

This case study explores how we automatically ingested Autodesk Construction Cloud building information modeling (BIM) content (3D model, drawings, docs) using generative AI, knowledge graph technologies, and SAP gateways to automatically generate assets in SAP. This smart handover provides operations with an adapted data framework enabling rapid information contextualization to support any field engineering or maintenance problem-solving activities. In this POV—executed in collaboration with Autodesk, Capgemini, and Cognite—we've explored solutions to the two following business problems: How do we reduce the postdelivery bottleneck of asset creation in SAP from 12 months to less than one month, enabling bidirectional updates between SAP and BIM data sources? How do we reduce downtime and improve reliability by decreasing the response time following an event by 70%–80%? And how do we eliminate the burden of manual data gathering (contextualization) across multiple siloed systems and provide co-pilot support (generative AI) to summarize and correlate data sources?

From gigaprojects to roads, manufacturing facilities, and everything in between, using technology that serves many diverse markets is no small task. The fun really starts when you add in the opinions of 55,000+ people. We at Jacobs have been rolling out Autodesk Construction Cloud as our common data environment (CDE) across our global business. We've seen some great results and hit plenty of roadblocks, but we're well on our way to establishing a global means of working in Autodesk Construction Cloud that will change the way we deliver projects. We're here to share what we've learned, and lead others down the path of digital transformation. The team members will offer insight into their different experiences of implementing Autodesk Construction Cloud. Each journey has been different, and most are at different stages on their continued journeys. Are you interested in civil? Buildings? Life sciences? ISO 19650? Join us for a panel of Jacobs leaders working to make Autodesk Construction Cloud the company's single source of truth, and see what you can learn from all we've accomplished.

In-wall coordination is arguably one of the most complex workflows to manage throughout the whole lifecycle of a project build. But it doesn't have to be. There are many factors that go into designing and building the interiors of any project, and this can become even more complex in projects involving health care and life sciences. In the construction industry, it's not uncommon for the walls of a building to be coordinated by traditionally marking up construction documentation, or by field coordinating MEP rough-in. However, this approach can lead to a lot of RFIs and rework—and an overall quality reduction. Enhancing in-wall coordination through a virtual coordination process will not only improve the overall efficiency of your project build, it will also unlock many prefabrication opportunities for the general contractor and trade partners. And it will provide opportunities for multitrade layout through robotics, combat labor shortages, and greatly increase the overall quality output of the project.

Building information modeling (BIM) processes with federated 3D models and centralized common data environments (CDEs) are well-accepted norms in project delivery. Yet, the benefits derived from this digitalization favor the engineering companies over the manufacturing owner. Moreover, the owner's transformation focus is mostly on digitizing highly regulated drug releases and manufacturing performance. Converging these two digital approaches is not often seen as a priority. Yet, it may be a foundational step toward a successful digital transformation for businesses and their people. We’ll make the case for data convergence between digital assets (descriptive digital twins) and manufacturing data and analytics to solve business problems, like accessing the right information and documentation without time loss. We’ll share how the human-centered approach made visible the foundational benefit of BIM by linking objects to information using BIM 360 (collaborate) and data fusion technologies, and which KPIs can demonstrate value.

More and more complex assets are delivered with a digital model that has undeniable importance in the CapEx (capital expenditure) phase. However, a basic question arises for a pharmaceutical leader like GSK: What are the business and manufacturing benefits that can be derived from this smart digital representation of assets, and how? Through "design thinking" tools and an agile approach, we answer this question by focusing on making daily life easier for the shop floor teams. The basic principle focuses on the "spatial contextualization" of information through a 3D or 2D model to support team decision making and team collaboration. The bottom line: The information contextualization enables a prioritization of daily activities and eliminates time previously spent searching for the right information or any asset component. We will share the four phases of this pharma 4.0 digital innovation project: exploration, prototyping, showcasing, and implementation in an interactive storytelling format.

This session will feature an enlightening journey through Spirax-Sarco's remarkable global business transformation. This multinational industrial engineering group, serving customers in 165 countries, has harnessed the power of product lifecycle management (PLM) to improve business operations—from data and process management to global supply chain collaboration. Hear firsthand accounts about how PLM has become an integral part of the firm's business ecosystem, supporting around 1,200 users of manufacturing data worldwide. The products Spirax-Sarco engineers and manufactures are integral to various industries like food and beverage, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, power generation, and health care. Discover how, through PLM, Spirax-Sarco has unified data and processes, improved visibility and reporting, and enhanced traceability. Learn what strategies the firm's using to bolster efficiency and reduce the global cost of quality. Get inspired by Spirax-Sarco's journey and the valuable lessons learned. This session is part of the PLM Summit, a dedicated learning pathway and networking experience on Tuesday, October 15. To see all related sessions select the "PLM Summit" track filter. To request attendance at the private luncheon and reception, please email plmsummitau@autodesk.com.

Join us for an insightful session led by Rania deLeon, a renowned quality and regulatory expert from Mina Methods. During this presentation, Rania will share the transformative journey of PPMDM, a medical device company, and its strategic use of product lifecycle management (PLM). Learn how in an industry with stringent regulatory demands, PLM has been a game changer for PPMDM, enabling a small team to manage vast operations efficiently. Rania will share how the use of PLM for quality management has enabled the manufacturing of high-quality products with an impressively low complaint rate. The presentation will explore lessons learned and take a glimpse into the future—translating this compliance success to other organizations. Key takeaways will include how PLM helped build and validate an effective quality-management system, leading to efficient operations, successful audits, and the delivery of superior quality products.

The country’s leading mechanical contractors were some of the earliest adopters of Building Information Modeling (BIM) due to the vast potential for off-site prefabrication. Nearly ten years after its first BIM project, J.C. Cannistraro is sharing some lessons learned from modeling, fabricating, and building some of the most high-profile hospital and biotech projects in the Northeast. Using primarily Autodesk® Navisworks® and Autodesk® Fabrication software, we will explain how we use collaborative thinking, Lean methodology, and BIM tools throughout the preconstruction and construction phases to maximize the efficiency of delivery and installation on every project.

We4bee pursues the goal of establishing a worldwide network of high-tech beehives. This is not only to promote environmental research and education, but also to establish an early warning system for earthquakes and other natural disasters. This project collaborates with the University of Würzburg, Germany. In this class Dr. Claudia Leikam (CEO of we4bee), Professor Hotho and Padraig Davidson from the Chair of Computer Science X (big data and machine learning), Professor Jürgen Tautz (THE bee expert), and the engineer Hans Neumayr will give us an overview about this research project. Hans Neumayr used Fusion 360 software and EAGLE software to create the electronics equipment and some mechanical parts of the beehives. Professor Hotho and Mr. Davidson will provide information on data collection and analysis. Professor Tautz is the well-known bee expert, and Dr. Leikam will give you a view of the scientific aspects of this amazing project.

The research, design engineering, and development of a wireless ambulatory Electroencephalogram (EEG ) headset that utilises Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) presents a wide range of complex requirements. The team responsible for developing this wireless ambulatory EEG headset is focusing on making the device suitable for patient-managed neurorehabilitation within community (at homes or community centres). Unlike existing commercial EEG headsets, this would be the first device created particularly for unassisted (nonprofessional) usage by patients (or their caregivers) with restricted motor function or with chronic pain. These conditions may be the result of spinal cord injury and/or stroke. This approach provides benefits not only to Healthcare providers (such as occupational therapists) in terms of resource allocation, but also to patients and caregivers by providing access to device that can be used in familiar surroundings and at times that suit. The main challenges that benefit from the application of Fusion 360, generative design, and ReCap are: 1) developing form and structures that are adaptable to range of head sizes and geometries; 2) developing a structure that optimises the location and placement of electrodes; 3) reduction of material usage of key headset components; 4) influences the design with the aim of enhancing comfort, functionality, durability, and interaction. The demonstration will show examples of concept development of the device, ranging from digital to physical test beds that test the interaction between a variety of heads, mechanical properties of the headsets and electrodes. Traditional and rapid prototyping processes have been used throughout the development and where appropriate, these have been tested and evaluated using human factors methods and tools. The interaction and placement of the device is critical to the rehabilitation of the patient. Therefore, the device has to intuitive to use and reliable throughout its application. It is also expected that the device would be used by more than one patient, therefore it has to be easily maintained and serviced. The project is aligned with Engineering and Physical Science Research Council's delivery plan in the area of improving prevention and public health. It fits within Healthcare technologies strategic plan for optimising treatment and creating patient-specific predictive models that integrate medical knowledge and knowledge of an i