Digital Project Delivery

Cloud-based collaboration across the entire AECO lifecycle

Experience true cloud-connected collaboration with Autodesk's digital project delivery solution; unifying people, data, and workflows.

What is digital project delivery?

Digital project delivery isn't yet another tool. It's an improved, collaborative way of working for building and infrastructure projects—from plan to design to construct to operate. It connects people, data, and workflows across the project lifecycle in a secure common data environment.

Centralizing data ensures that stakeholders can access the right information, in the right format, when they need it. By integrating live, multi-discipline data, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cost, and schedule tracking in a centralized source of truth, teams can design and iterate in parallel and manage projects efficiently while protecting intellectual property, controlling versions, and resolving issues.

This connected, interoperable environment opens the door to automation, multi-discipline workflows, and global connectivity, leading to better quality, greater productivity, and on-time and on-budget delivery. 

How digital project delivery is enabled

Digital project delivery connects people, data, and processes in a shared, cloud-based common data environment (CDE), allowing teams to aggregate models and centralize data at every project stage.  Through a CDE, stakeholders can come together to plan, design, construct, and operate projects through the integration of live, multi-discipline data. This helps remove data silos and communication barriers, and means that all team members can access the right information in the right format when they need it.

Transform your business with digital project delivery

Deliver the right data to the right people at the right time

Deliver the right data to the right people at the right time

Enhance productivity, optimize talent, and hasten project delivery by integrating all stakeholders in a cloud-based common data environment, allowing secure, timely, and effective data exchange in parallel.

Provide accurate insights for project decisions​

Provide accurate insights for project decisions​

Enhance cost, resource, and safety optimization as well as asset performance by sharing data across the team, enabling efficient work within budget and optimal decision-making at crucial project stages.

Equip your business for the future

Equip your business for the future

Centralize data in a common data environment for model-based handovers. These data-rich models become the foundation of a digital twin, providing visibility of how the asset, spaces, and systems operate together, and key learnings for future projects.

How much could you save with Digital Project Delivery?

Our ROI calculator shows you the potential cost and time savings of implementing digital project delivery.  Answer five quick questions about your workflows and your team to get a personalized assessment in minutes. You’ll receive a full report on just how much you could save with cloud-connected collaboration.

A smarter future for data control—now closer to home

Autodesk has expanded regional data offerings for select products—now available in the UK, Germany, India, Japan, and Canada.

This gives you more control over where your project data resides, helping you meet regulatory requirements, align with internal IT policies, and ensure operational confidence—without compromising the cloud-based collaboration your teams rely on.

Available for:

  • Autodesk® Docs

  • Autodesk® BIM Collaborate Pro

Whether you’re building across borders or focused on local compliance, Autodesk is committed to helping you move forward—with flexibility, security, and clarity.

Digital project delivery for every type of project

Digital project delivery solutions for the entire building project team

Architects

Bring your vision to life

Digital project delivery enables architects to consolidate project data into a single source of truth, empowering them to clearly communicate their vision to clients and stakeholders—ensuring it comes to life exactly as imagined.

Structural engineers

Work from a single source of truth

With digital project delivery, engineers can centralize all their documents, submit scopes, and manage correspondence and action items all in one place.

General contractors

Access centralized data throughout the project

Working in a common data environment, general contractors gain full project visibility, allowing them to actively manage risk, schedules, quality, and costs. This reduces rework and drives higher client satisfaction.

Owners and operators

Stay connected with owners

Digital project delivery brings owners and operators into the fold, giving them better visibility and control throughout the project lifecycle.

Digital project delivery solutions for every building project phase

Plan phase: share and plan in parallel

Collaborating within a common data environment during the plan stage enables:

  • Engineers to easily share documents and work in parallel with architects on live models

  • Architects to rapidly test and iterate concepts and share a data-rich model with the client

  • All stakeholders to benefit from the implementation of standardized workflows and data management practices, such as ISO-19650

Design phase: gain flexibility in the design process

The common data environment increases efficiency in the design stage by:

  • Streamlining collaboration between stakeholders while maintaining model quality and protecting IP

  • Enabling multiple disciplines to seamlessly work in parallel on live models

  • Allowing contractors to provide input on quality, cost, and schedule, and owners to track progress and provide early feedback

Construct phase: track projects from a centralized location

During construction, a single source of truth allows stakeholders to:

  • Manage RFIs, issues, and submittals while tracking correspondence and action items in a centralized location

  • Trace issues and rework to their root cause and analyze project patterns

  • Enhance models with relevant construction data and harness 3D models to track the build's progress, cost, and schedule

Maintain & operate phase: ensure reliable records and operational readiness

In the maintain and operate phase, digital project delivery enables:

  • Aggregated models to provide the owner, linked to documentation from every stage of the project and easily converted into a well-organized digital handover

  • Accurate as-built documentation, meaning that data can be applied to future rail projects, or used as the foundation for a digital twin

  • Access to centralized documentation from across the project lifecycle to review, inform asset operations and identify potential improvements

Closing the data gap for AECO firms

As few as 10% of AECO firms currently operate from a single digital ecosystem, but those that do are shown to be more efficient, more adaptable, and more profitable. Ready to join them? Find out how a centralized common data environment can transform your workflows in our new e-book, 3 Ways Digital Project Delivery Improves Building Projects.

Products for digital project delivery

BIM Collaborate Pro
Cloud-based design co-authoring, collaboration, and coordination software for architecture, engineering, and construction teams. “Pro” enables anytime, anywhere collaboration in Revit, Civil 3D, and AutoCAD Plant 3D.
Autodesk Docs
Manage project information in a cloud-based, common data environment
Architecture Engineering & Construction collection
Powerful BIM and CAD tools for designers, engineers, and contractors, including Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Forma Site Design, and more
Autodesk Build
Comprehensive field and project management software that delivers a broad, deep, and connected set of tools for builders.
Autodesk Takeoff
Perform accurate 2D takeoffs and generate automated quantities from 3D models in a single online solution.
Tandem
Hand over a digital twin that helps building owners achieve greater ROI from their built assets.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Digital Project Delivery is a way of working in which projects are conceived, planned, designed, built, and operated in an interactive, shared space in the cloud. The method integrates multi-disciplinary data, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information System (GIS) data, from multiple applications in a cloud-based common data environment so that all stakeholders can access, including owners, architects, general contractors, engineers, tradespeople, and owners. By unifying teams, workflows, and information, digital project delivery can help you increase efficiency, automate busy work, and improve deliverable quality.

Integrated project delivery (IPD) is a contractual method between the owner, general contractor, and designer in which all project stakeholders manage and accept design and construction risk as a team. IPD integrates the team responsible for delivering the project. Digital Project Delivery (DPD) is a way of working together. It unifies data across the entire project lifecycle in a shared, cloud-based common data environment where all stakeholders can collaborate in real time. Digital Project Delivery can be used in support of IPD, but DPD methodology is broader than the contractual nature of IPD.

Digital project delivery can be implemented on practically any design, engineering, or construction project using different project delivery methods. When a project is delivered, the 3D models and documentation can be used to help improve asset maintenance and operations. Digital project delivery tools are not prescriptive, they provide flexibility. You can define your own workflows, data integrations, processes, and documentation to fit the needs of the individual project and contract.

Get started with digital project delivery

Digital project delivery is a solution enabled by multiple Autodesk products. Get in touch with your account team today to start future-proofing your enterprise today.

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Get started with digital project delivery

Digital project delivery is a solution enabled by multiple Autodesk products. Get in touch with your account team today to start future-proofing your enterprise today.

Let's connect

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