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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Data Sludge to Liquid Gold: Transforming the Future of Water Infrastructure Through Digital Prototypings
Water infrastructure owners and operators face poor asset information handover due to system misalignment. Could Automation, Integration, & Customization and integrated data enable Digital Prototypings to support operational efficiency, reduce rework and costs, and improve health and safety (H&S)? Learn how GHD successfully used client-focused data exchange and cloud collaboration during the 40MLD upgrade of Wellington Water Limited’s Te Mārua water treatment plant to ease these struggles. Automating the integration of asset information using Autodesk products enabled delivery of the asset register 12 months early—saving NZ$150,000 and 1,400 hours in asset data management. Combining Esri mobile apps and dashboards enhanced as-built quality and reduced site H&S risks. A proof of concept was developed where GeoBIM and Forma Data Management software were fused to create a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) common data environment (CDE)—the foundation for an operations and maintenance Digital Prototyping. We’ll share valuable lessons on managing evolving data needs and supply chains to demonstrate how connected workflows made Project Delivery more efficient.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Visualizing the Future of Nashville Water: The Forma-VR Combo Hits Its Stride in a Massive Collaborative Design Effort
Nashville’s once-in-a-generation water plant upgrade is using cloud tools and virtual reality (VR) to set a new standard for how critical facilities are designed. The ambitious project fits a new modern plant into a complex campus, and, notably, will convert a beautiful 105-year-old filter building into an advanced treatment unit. It will not only establish a climate-resilient water supply for Nashville, but it will also honor the historic site with thoughtful architecture and achieve the highest standards in project Sustainable Design. The design was a multi-year collaborative effort between 10 firms. Autodesk Forma was the cornerstone, with Revit and Civil 3D models brought together daily in a federated Navisworks model. This talk will cover how the live model accessed through Resolve VR empowered all levels of owner staff to engage in project development in ways not otherwise possible—from O&M teams providing frequent detailed input to City officials quickly understanding the site in broad strokes.
51p
Article / 2021
Model Solutions for the Real World Using Location Intelligence
When BIM and GIS are used together, data can move between all stages of design, construction, and facility operation to create more efficient infrastructure. Micah Callough of Esri explains.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Civil 3D and InfraWorks for Resilient Infrastructure Design
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are reshaping how civil teams deliver resilient water infrastructure. Yet integrating watershed-scale insights into detailed design remains a challenge. This session will show how The Nature Conservancy applied targeted training and InfraWorks and Civil 3D software to connect regional watershed analysis with site-level engineering workflows. Learn how to translate watershed data into design inputs, develop NbS concepts into constructible models, and maintain data continuity across planning and design phases. See how connected workflows improved cross-team collaboration, enabled earlier decision making, and reduced project risk in real-world water infrastructure projects.
54p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Streamlined Stormwater Design with InfoDrainage
Many stormwater design teams rely on workflows that bounce between multiple programs, require repeated file transfers, and depend on clunky spreadsheets. This approach is inefficient, prone to error, and difficult to scale across an organization. InfoDrainage, on the other hand, allows for robust stormwater design all in one place, and easily round-trips with Civil 3D software. In this class, we'll show where Kimley-Horn teams saw meaningful efficiency gains in generating RCNs and round-tripping storm drain networks. Drawing on Kimley-Horn's collaboration with Autodesk, we'll discuss how real-world needs shaped InfoDrainage to benefit both project teams and the industry more broadly. Mike Pizzino, InfoDrainage expert at Autodesk, will co-present.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Design Fast, Validate Smart: Extending InfoDrainage with Parametric Workflows in Civil 3D and InfoWorks ICM to Deliver Multiple Benefits
Early-stage drainage design prioritizes speed, using simplified assumptions to test options quickly. However, challenges such as combined sewer overflows (CSOs), flooding, biodiversity loss, and wider community outcomes are increasingly interconnected and require a more systems-based approach that extends beyond the traditional boundaries of the water sector. This session explores how connected digital workflows can support the identification, design, and validation of sustainable drainage interventions that deliver multiple benefits. Using an anonymized case study, attendees will see how opportunities can be rapidly explored through parametric site-design workflows in Civil 3D and InfoDrainage, then assessed through system-scale modelling in InfoWorks ICM to understand impacts on flood risk and CSO frequency, volume, and timing. The session focuses on balancing speed, rigour, and confidence in decision-making, helping practitioners understand how technology, systems thinking, and proportionate modelling can support more resilient and integrated outcomes for communities and the environment.
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Las Vegas 2026
End-to-End Drainage Design with Autodesk Forma, InfoDrainage, and Civil 3D
InfoDrainage and Autodesk Forma will soon work together as part of a connected workflow for site drainage design. In this session, you'll work with Civil 3D and InfoDrainage models hosted in Forma, using live references such as surfaces and CAD background data to keep design information connected across applications.   Starting from a site design, you'll develop and optimize a drainage network in InfoDrainage, leveraging connected site data to accelerate hydrologic design.   The workflow continues with dynamic hydraulic simulation, exceedance assessment, and review of results, followed by compliance-ready reporting. The session concludes by synchronizing the completed drainage design back to Civil 3D, demonstrating a streamlined, connected workflow from site model to validated drainage design.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
From Sustainability Intent to Spatial Decisions: Integrating Environmental Performance into Autodesk Forma
The future of sustainable design isn't about creating more data - it's about transforming fragmented information into connected intelligence that helps teams make better decisions, earlier. In this panel discussion, leaders from VINCI Construction and Autodesk will explore how AI, digital platforms, and connected workflows are helping project teams access the right data, in the right context, at the right time. Drawing on major infrastructure and building projects, biodiversity research, and digital transformation initiatives, the panel will examine how project requirements, environmental intelligence, and organizational knowledge can be brought together into one layered system to inform design decisions from the earliest stages of a project.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
From Source to Farm: Digital Twins for End-to-End Irrigation with Autodesk Water Infrastructure
Irrigation systems are often managed in silos: Reservoirs, canals, and farm distribution lack integrated visibility, leading to inefficiencies and water losses. This session will demonstrate how Autodesk water infrastructure solutions can create a connected, data-driven irrigation system. InfoWorks ICM is used to model river basins and canal hydraulics, while InfoWorks WS Pro simulates pressurized distribution networks. InfoAsset Manager structures irrigation assets for seamless integration, and Info360 Insight enables real-time monitoring and operational decisions. In this session, you will learn practical workflows to improve water allocation, reduce losses, and enable demand-based irrigation using simulation, asset intelligence, and analytics.
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
From Innovyze to Autodesk Tandem: Digital Twins and AI for Climate‑Resilient Water Infrastructure
Water infrastructure is entering a decisive decade. In 2026, utilities face climate volatility, aging assets, regulatory pressure, and rising expectations for resilient, transparent service. Traditional approaches based on static hydraulic models and reactive operations are no longer sufficient. This keynote will explore how connected digital twins and AI are reshaping water infrastructure across the full lifecycle from planning and design to operations and maintenance. It will present a practical workflow showing how Innovyze modeling outputs evolve into a live operational digital twin in Autodesk Tandem software, enabling continuity from design to asset maintenance, and supporting predictive, risk‑based decision making.
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
AI-Driven Digital Twins: Standardizing and Scaling Mission-Critical Infrastructure
The rapid growth of data centers is challenging traditional approaches to design and delivery. Project-by-project workflows are no longer scalable, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistent outcomes. This session will explore how AI-driven digital twins developed through Autodesk Tandem software and enabled by collaborative workflows in Autodesk Forma can support a scalable and repeatable approach to mission-critical infrastructure. You'll learn how to connect early-stage planning, detailed design, and operations into a continuous data-driven process. And you'll see how to replicate solutions across multiple sites while maintaining performance, quality, and speed.
32p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
AEC Roadmap: Water
Water infrastructure is changing fast, and your tools need to keep up. Join Autodesk water experts to explore the latest innovations across InfoDrainage, InfoWorks ICM, InfoWorks WS Pro, InfoWater Pro, and Info360 Insight. Discover how you can streamline workflows for drainage design, hydraulic modeling, and asset management, alongside expanding integrations with Civil 3D and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. Discover what's new, what's coming next, and how it all connects. You'll get a sneak peek at in-development capabilities, and you'll have the chance to connect directly with the teams behind these solutions, ask questions, and share feedback that helps drive the roadmap forward.
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
From Borehole to Building: Advanced Ground Modeling Directly in Civil 3D with GeoDin Ground
Ground models are the missing link between site investigation and infrastructure design. Engineers make critical decisions on alignments, crossings, and foundations while the subsurface remains a black box data arriving late, locked in static reports, or in formats incompatible with the design environment. GeoDin Ground for Civil 3D software is changing that. In this session, we'll present the latest advances in 3D ground modeling inside Civil 3D, including direct AGS file ingestion and autoconversion eliminating the need for a preexisting database and letting teams start directly with received data. You'll see the ground take shape inside Civil 3D, evolving into a 3D model that drives critical design choices and reduces project risk from day one.
36p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Data-Rich: Meeting the Model Standard Owners Now Expect
What an owner expects inside the model has changed dramatically in recent years. The model has stopped being just a coordination artifact, it feeds prefab, production tracking, field deliverables, and facilities maintenance. On mission-critical work, and especially data centers, the stakes climb even higher because electrical infrastructure sits on the critical path and schedules leave no room for delay. The gap between a standard model and what is expected now shows up as measurable hours per project, and it lands hardest on teams that are already running at capacity. This session draws on patterns Augmenta is seeing across a wide range of mission critical projects, breaking down how teams are meeting demand by generating data rich models from the start rather than back filling detail under deadline pressure.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
IFC 4.3 for Infrastructure: From Export to Digital Delivery
IFC 4.3 enables open data exchange for infrastructure, yet many teams struggle to turn IFC exports into information that projects can rely on. This session will move beyond export steps and focus on using IFC effectively on infrastructure projects. You'll learn how IFC 4.3 works once it leaves Civil 3D software, including how models are governed, versioned, reviewed, and trusted. Topics will include model view definitions, the IFC Reference View for civil infrastructure, and common mistakes that reduce value. The session will also introduce Autodesk Forma Data Management as a practical way to manage IFC delivery at scale, supporting controlled sharing and review. You'll leave with guidance on positioning IFC as a trusted project resource.
61p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Designing for Inclusion: Solving Low-Battery Anxiety in AEC and Design and Make

What if your designs unintentionally limit who belongs in the spaces you create? This strategy talk reveals the hidden infrastructure gap behind low battery anxiety for power mobility users and why it matters to AEC and Design & Make professionals. Through Teresa Valenzuela's story, discover how culture, empathy, and inclusive innovation can reshape design. Learn to uncover overlooked user needs, design for accessibility at scale, and apply practical strategies that expand access and participation. Walk away with actionable ways to embed accessibility and belonging into your next project.

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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Turning Site Design into Quantifiable Flood Resilience with InfoDrainage and Civil 3D

Early stage flood resilience design relies on simplified assumptions, limiting understanding of how site-design decisions influence flood performance. This session will present an InfoDrainage led workflow to quantify flood resilience at site scale through coordinated parametric design and hydraulic modeling. The session will show how InfoDrainage, Autodesk Civil 3D, Subassembly Composer, and Dynamo software are used together to drive parametric site design and generate inputs for flood simulation. Rule-based design logic enables rapid, repeatable generation of site grading and flood mitigation solutions using Dynamo Player. The resulting BIM ready terrain and surface models support scenario testing across exceedance and climate change scenarios.

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Panel / Las Vegas 2026
Scaling Rail Data at MRS Logística: From Fragmented Workflows to Real-Time Intelligence
In a reality of more than 200 railway infrastructure projects running simultaneously, data fragmentation is not a risk it's inevitable. This technical deep dive will show you how MRS Logística tackles this challenge by refining BIM requirements and building a standardized common data environment (CDE) in Autodesk Forma. From issues and daily reports to audits, model coordination, cost, and schedule, workflows are structured and connected at scale. Discover how Autodesk Assistant enables structured analysis and how the Insight Builder tool turns connected data into real-time intelligence driving consistency, reliability, and faster decision making across projects.
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Autodesk Forma at the Center: Designing a Real-World CDE for Multidiscipline Engineering
Many organizations adopt Autodesk Forma industry cloud as their common data environment (CDE) for BIM collaboration. But complex infrastructure projects rely on far more than BIM tools alone. Traffic modeling, hydraulic analysis, geotechnical simulations, and geographic information system (GIS) workflows often depend on specialized software that cannot operate effectively within cloud collaboration platforms. This session will show how Parsons implemented a practical CDE architecture with Autodesk Forma at the center of coordination while supporting discipline-specific production environments. You'll learn how clear governance, ISO 19650 alignment, and defined workflows can unify multidisciplinary collaboration without constraining engineering delivery.
55p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Operationalizing Autodesk Forma: Lessons from Scaling Infrastructure Delivery
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.
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