If you're interested in faster and more effective project validation, this class will help you discover how Anas has improved its performance by adopting building information modeling (BIM) design and checking/validation processes for the case study of the new road "SS 340 Tremezzina” in the north-west of Italy's Lake Como. We'll explore the main challenges and benefits obtained by implementing digital processes to manage the design and validation phases within the Italian public contracting authority (Anas), using Revit, Civil 3D, and InfraWorks software for design and Navisworks software for checking/validation via the interoperable Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format. Finally, we will present the potential applications planned for the construction stage, with the aim of speeding up the contractor's inspection and payment activities, and for the operations and maintenance stage, with the aim of improving the quality of operations using the digital twin.

Get ready to witness the power of innovative data acquisition and reality capture as we take you through one of the largest transportation infrastructure megaprojects in North America: the Metrolinx Ontario Line. With 450 survey requests to date, our aerial, mobile, and terrestrial LiDAR captures amassed 15+ TB, posing unique challenges and opportunities in managing the high expectations for accuracy and usability of the data during design within 800+ intelligent models. This session will take you through survey-grade reality capture, integrating LiDAR/point clouds using ReCap software, and hosting in BIM 360 Docs as the project's common data environment (CDE). The result is a highly accurate, detailed, and accessible representation of the existing conditions from which 1,000+ team members are drawing intelligence in Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Revit, and Navisworks software. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from HDR and Tulloch on best practices and lessons learned in this groundbreaking project.

This session will focus on exploring the 4D scheduling collaboration process, from source models in Revit and Civil 3D software, to creating data-driven animations in SYNCHRO 4D and photorealistic experiences inside Unreal Engine. By bringing model and schedule together, week after week, our team has refined the models and schedule. Together, we reviewed the schedule, asked meaningful questions of it, and corrected any errors we found along the way. This class will use the case study of the Ontario Line Technical Advisory megaproject (CA $10.9 billion) and share the novel workflows that were adopted for establishing a seamless, dynamic, cloud-based connection and 3D coordination across multiple design platforms. We will demonstrate how these teams worked together to define innovative workflows for enriching transportation design models with the time dimension to perform constructability review and construction planning in interactive and immersive 4D models.

Technology in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is changing rapidly. To keep up with this accelerated pace, VHB is stating that our default design practice will be model-based design (MBD) by 2025. This means training 800+ Civil 3D users in more-automated, connected, and advanced workflows. We recognize that to create this large-scale shift we need to train a generation of innovative and inspiring coaches to help guide others through this change. Advanced MBD Training was created to mold 10% of our Civil 3D users into MBD Project Coaches. As MBD Project Coaches, they'll be expected to advance MBD from automating processes to creating more-efficient workflows. The training will focus not only on our core tool, Civil 3D, but it will also include Dynamo, InfraWorks software, Subassembly Composer, Grading Optimization, ArcGIS Connector, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Twinmotion. This session will walk through how we built and implemented this program to accelerate change at VHB.

With the rapid advance of technology, why should we be limited by outdated hydrology and hydraulics methods? Although public domain software has made 2D hydraulic calculations accessible, the simplicity is debatable. While recent regulatory discussions have indicated that 1D hydraulic modeling could become a thing of the past, are our tools ready and capable of making the leap? In truth, 2D hydraulic modeling and 2D hydrologic calculations should be the foundation of the way forward. In this class, we'll explore how to adopt 2D hydrologic and hydraulic modeling using Autodesk tools such as ReCap software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, and InfoWorks ICM. The benefits of a 2D hydraulic model are significant, saving lives and allowing engineers to make better informed and valuable decisions, such as mitigation design or risk reduction. Join us, and let's learn how to improve your hydraulic skills and discuss the fundamentals of 2D integrated catchment modeling.

Do you struggle to understand shared coordinates? Are you manually moving design models into the correct location? Are you constantly forced to do redesign work because models aren't aligned correctly? If you've answered YES to any of these questions then this lab is for you! Collaborating with architects, designers and engineers within the context of a real-world coordinate system doesn't have to be painful or time-consuming. In this lab you'll discover for yourself just how quick and easy it is to properly geo-reference point clouds, Revit models, Civil 3D drawings and much more within the Autodesk Construction Cloud. Along the way we'll discuss best practices, tips-n-tricks, and what to watch out for when working with shared coordinates. At the end of this lab you'll be able to quickly AND correctly define a shared coordinate system for ALL the design files of your project and cross-link them into other design applications, enabling better design decisions.

The 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes in New Zealand decimated a city full of 500,000 people. Government and residents required fast and decisive action. Twelve years later, the rebuild continues. What would this city's rebuild look like now with all the new technology applied? Could we respond more rapidly? Could the city be carbon neutral? Would we focus on the same projects? Would the projects look different if we measured embodied carbon? Would we have greater collaboration and data analytics capture and use? Would we gain efficiencies? We will explore all this in this class. We'll have a recap of the event, the damage, the decisions made that set the ground for the next 20+ years of work, and how we might approach the planning, design, delivery, and future of the city and its anchor projects if we could do it all again. We'll explore and demonstrate key workflows, processes, data-informed decision making, and software with some of the real-world design-and-built projects. We will explore the implementation of InfraWorks software, Autodesk Forma, Dynamo, ReCap software, Autodesk Construction Cloud Pro, and Insight X and share our ideas for the future.

Real estate and infrastructure are facing high pressure to reduce CO2 and waste. This class will demonstrate how to digitize existing real estate or infrastructure portfolios with a focus on decarbonization and reuse of material. The class will cover how to find out the CO2 footprint of a current portfolio, how to capture material, and how to use it as a material mine and bring it into a circle, as natural resources like sand and water are limited and shrinking drastically. The class will present a real example involving the Swiss Army based on other examples of relevant real estate owners in Switzerland. Digital twins are crucial in this context to the very precise and reliable capture and analysis of the data, and they help accelerate decisions and implementation, accelerate time to market, and ultimately lead to even more revenue for the owners. Technology showcased will be Revit software, Autodesk Tandem, InfraWorks software, and Autodesk Construction Cloud.

Join us on an interesting journey through time! For 10 years, Royal HaskoningDHV has used InfraWorks software to transform projects into vivid models. Multidisciplinary projects—bridges, viaducts, (bored) tunnels, and more! Our journey also recaps rural projects, where the underground infrastructure is made visible (pipe networks and utilities). With InfraWorks, we didn't just build structures; we built bridges with our clients and stakeholders. 3D Insights united the entire project team. And early error detection saved construction costs! Some projects have already risen from the ground. Now, we're putting them to the ultimate test. The InfraWorks model stands as our mirror to reflect the blueprint with the build design. Don't miss this class where innovation meets infrastructure!

In this session, we'll showcase how to use drawing standardization, Autodesk proprietary formats, and publicly available information to quickly create dynamic near-real-time models of our sites in InfraWorks software. This process can often take hours to carefully insert each bit of information and set a style to carry out and get the desired look. However, by using drawing standards and InfraWorks rule sets, we can generate a site model in a fraction of the time—making this ideal for discussion with stakeholders and the public.

Hatch, a global engineering consulting firm, excels in creating robust parametric models for infrastructure, mining, and energy projects. Our extensive experience has taught us what works and what doesn't. In this session, we'll guide you through Autodesk's new Informed Design tool for Inventor software, using our expertise to ensure your success. Whether you're an Inventor expert or just starting out, our approach to parametric modeling for Informed Design is accessible and effective. Join us as we explore the steps to create rich and efficient models, empowering you to optimize reusability, automate processes, manage quantities, and streamline BOMs. Let's unlock the potential of parametric models together!

The development level of hydraulic modeling applications enables their use in various everyday situations in the water industry throughout the entire lifecycle of assets, not only in the design and specification stages. The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks software), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS PRO software). This new dynamic enhances the use of these tools together, extracting the best result as quickly and accurately as possible, both in the design phase and also during operations and maintenance. In this session, we'll go through studies of network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.

Curious about the road ahead for Autodesk's product and service offerings for infrastructure design and engineering? Join Autodesk product and strategy managers for Civil 3D, InfraWorks, ReCap and Collaboration for Civil 3D to learn about new features and functionality supporting the capabilities and workflows you need to drive more-efficient, more-sustainable, and more-collaborative infrastructure design and construction projects. Learn about the strategic insights and decisions driving development directions, and see early demonstrations of features and workflows yet to be released. Peer into the future of the products you use every day, and engage with Autodesk to help shape those products to better meet your needs and the needs of your company, project teams, and clients.

For developers and service providers in a wide range of fields other than construction—such as mobility, robotics, mapping, security, and maintenance—the value of reliable, high-quality spatial information on buildings and infrastructure is expected to increase in the future. In Toyota Woven City—which is currently under construction as an experimental city where various technologies can be tried for the well-being of people—we've been exploring the ideal form of spatial information, including building information modeling (BIM) data, while closely observing the needs of a wide variety of users. Based on the knowledge we've gained there, we've been developing spatial information of building structures for various users outside the construction industry from the client's standpoint, as well as developing databases and APIs to provide this information in an open-data format. We hope that sharing our experiences will help accelerate the development of spatial information as the future social data infrastructure.

With new technologies emerging, we're always on the road to explore the digital factory. In this class, we'll share the best practices and approaches regarding the digital factory. First, drive increased efficiency of the factory design and optimization based on CAD workflow and FlexSim process simulation, which is essential for the digital factory. Next, ensure the objects can be tracked throughout the whole lifecycle; we built a "Factory Object TAG Rules" system for digital delivery. Finally, connected IoT devices help realize digital twins to streamline, automate, and predict tasks. And we explore AI to reinforce human intelligence so that it can achieve more.

When managed correctly, geotechnical data holds present and future value. However, the interoperability and transferability of geotechnical data are not always straightforward, particularly when software solutions fail to offer data residency control and comparable structure. This leads to loads of unnecessary work for geotechnical engineers. Did you know that the average cost overrun for geotechnical projects is 28%? GeoDin geodata management solution is here to solve those headaches for geotechnical engineers, saving them precious time and resources. Let's discuss our latest innovations: interoperability with Autodesk Civil 3D software, which allows for access to contextual geodata, ingested from diverse sources, structured and stored on your data storage of choice, and funneled efficiently into your favorite design environment. We'll address major trends in geotechnical databases, as well as some practical insights into how this works.

Join us for an in-depth technical instruction session as we guide you through the entire process of a drainage design project, from preproject planning to detailed design. Harnessing the power of legacy architecture, engineering, and construction tools (InfraWorks and Civil 3D software) as well as the newer tools and InfoDrainage, we'll demonstrate seamless interoperability and connectivity to streamline your workflow. We'll focus on the catchment automation aspects of InfraWorks and Civil 3D. Then, we'll shift to how Civil 3D and InfoDrainage can be used to complete the drainage design even as these subcatchments change as the project progresses. You'll learn practical techniques and best practices for using this interoperability to its fullest potential. By connecting the design-and-make process from end to end, we're advancing practices in the field of drainage design. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your skills and revolutionize your approach to drainage projects with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage.

The building information modeling (BIM) concept of design and delivery is maturing and ever-greater projects are being developed. This trend is especially noticeable in infrastructure projects, where collaboration, automation, and advantages of 3D design play a critical role. This session will introduce you to the SOFiSTiK Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler (SBIM), a well-established application for Revit that helps you create linear structures. We'll present various functionalities together with project examples from industry leaders. We'll also focus on the modeling of reinforcement and prestressing for concrete bridges. Parametric profile-based design is taken to the next level with enriched information for rebars and tendons. It gives you more flexibility and custom levels of parametrization. Everything is controlled and adjusted with user-friendly input. Rebar and tendon annotations, elevation schedules, and other model-based information can be extracted and shared with other stakeholders.

In this session, we'll walk through an end-to-end cloud-centered workflow on using large point-cloud data for detailed design using ReCap Pro software and the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We will share simple tools to prepare surfaces, intelligently decimate large point-cloud data, publish to Autodesk Construction Cloud, and collaboratively extract design elements (like curbs, gutters, median, walls, ADA ramps, driveways, and drainage breaklines) and assets via browser and take them into detailed design technology like Civil 3D software to generate highly accurate surface models. Users can also publish the extracted features and assets to ArcGIS to use the information across the organization. This is a workflow the point cloud industry has been wanting for decades!

Join us for a dynamic and interactive AU 2024 panel discussion, where leading infrastructure experts in geospatial information systems (GIS) will converge to explore the transformative impact that GIS has on built-world projects. This session aims to foster a deep dialogue between our panel of seasoned professionals and the audience. Together, we will navigate the evolving landscape of infrastructure development, focusing on how GIS technologies drive efficiency, sustainability, and innovation in this critical sector. Expect a lively exchange of ideas, experiences, and insights as we collectively tackle the most-pressing topics and challenges facing infrastructure professionals today. Whether you're a project manager, engineer, planner, or GIS specialist, this panel will provide valuable perspectives on using geospatial intelligence for infrastructure excellence.