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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Silos to Synergy: Aligning Project Delivery Across Three Firms
Aligning Project Delivery across three engineering firms—spanning 5,000+ staff and major sectors like transportation, water, and buildings—is no small feat. This session will share how we’ve built a unified approach to Project Delivery, balancing consistency with flexibility. We’ll explore how governance, culture, and shared frameworks are helping us deliver at scale—while adapting to project and sector-specific needs. A key enabler has been our partnership with Autodesk, who supported us in adopting tools like Autodesk Forma into our standard workflows. From implementation to integration, Autodesk Forma is helping us streamline collaboration, enhance data continuity, and improve design coordination. If you’re leading digital strategy across a complex organization—or trying to get teams on the same page—this session will offer practical insights, tested methods, and honest lessons learned.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Digitizing Your Real Estate Portfolio with a Focus on Decarbonization and Reusing Material
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 Forma.
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40p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Get the Most from Your Point Cloud: Automated Feature Extraction
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 Forma platform. We will share simple tools to prepare surfaces, intelligently decimate large point-cloud data, publish to Autodesk Forma, 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!
17p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Streamlining the Delivery of a $2.5 Billion Water Infrastructure Project Portfolio Using Autodesk Forma
Australia, one of the driest continents, faces critical water challenges. The country now looks beyond its dams to desalination plants and recycled water treatment to address this. However, constructing desalination plants traditionally consumes high energy and impacts the environment. This session focuses on how John Holland, an Australian contractor, successfully streamlined its major water infrastructure projects valued at $2.5 billion by implementing a common data environment hosted on Autodesk Forma. The firm replaced traditional tasks performed using desktop products—such as clash detection, information management, and design reviews—resulting in significant cost and time savings and improved efficiency across the project lifecycle, benefiting all stakeholders. We will share how we drive sustainability results by using building information modeling (BIM) to optimize recycled materials and reduce carbon footprint, ensuring the potential for environmentally friendly practices within the water infrastructure sector.
21p
47p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Concept to Compliance: Scaling Wastewater Design with Generative Workflows
Designing wastewater treatment plants is becoming increasingly complex, driven by evolving regulations, Sustainable Design goals, and tighter project budgets. This session will explore how large infrastructure firms are rethinking the early design process by integrating generative workflows that automate core engineering tasks, connect design decisions to client goals, and accelerate preliminary planning. Through real-world examples from US water and wastewater projects, including recent PFAS-focused efforts, you’ll learn how conceptual design can be enhanced using data-driven tools embedded in Autodesk platforms. This session will also explore how standardizing and automating this phase improves client engagement, speeds up internal QA/QC, and lays the foundation for stronger design outcomes downstream.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Embracing Digital for Utility Owners: Severn Trent's Journey to Unprecedented Efficiency Through Management
In this session, we'll discuss how Severn Trent’s £6 billion investment over the next five years will transform the UK water industry. Using digital technology, we're set to enhance efficiency and expedite delivery. We'll discuss the "intelligent client" concept, fostering collaboration with the supply chain, while maintaining data ownership. We'll address the sector’s digital limitations, rooted in traditional practices, and the impending shift to digital solutions that will revolutionize water management. We stand at the brink of a digital revolution, driven by the imperative for operational efficiency, sustainable resource management, and compliance with regulatory demands. We'll confront the skills shortage and low productivity, showing how our digital strategy—powered by collaboration, driven by data, and enabled by Automation, Integration, & Customization—will create an ecosystem where artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous. Discover a future where project constructability, affordability, and performance are guaranteed by design.
Panel / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | Out of the Shadows. Into the Light: From Experience Designer to Architect—Success Stories of Women in AEC.
Throughout history, women have pioneered innovations that have shaped the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, laying the foundation for groundbreaking technologies and radical transformations. We’ll explore the powerful impact of women driving change across the industry, and look ahead to the future of how we design and make. Hear from Autodesk Expert Elites and influential product designers at the forefront of transformative technologies. These women have adopted AI-powered generative design solutions. They’re using Digital Prototyping technology to create climate-resilient architecture. And they’re driving the successful integration of cloud-based platforms across large-scale organizations. Whether you're a woman in AEC or an ally, this session will provide actionable insights, inspiring stories, and an opportunity to connect and ask questions with the trailblazers shaping the future of design, construction, and technology.
8p
New Orleans 2022
Big Innovyze for Small Town in Brazil

The rupture of the dam in Ayrton Senna Park in Brazil impaired one of the few tourist attractions in a small town in the Brazilian countryside, generating significant social and environmental impact. Schettini Engenharia understood that for this atypical situation, it would be necessary to bring together some strategic partners to develop the entire building information modeling (BIM) solution with the help of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, starting the first smart-city project in the region. Using Autodesk and Innovyze solutions, the firm aimed to adopt sustainable practices in its proposal, mitigating part of the damage caused by the rupture of this dam, and bringing safety and better quality of life to this community. In this challenging dam case study, you’ll learn the workflow between the following tools: ReCap software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, Forma Data Management software, Navisworks software, Unity, InfoDrainage, and InfoWorks ICM.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Tools Customization Aids BIM Implementation in Sanitation Company
Brazil has undergone significant legislative changes in recent years and has the bold, yet necessary, goal to universalize water and sewage services by 2033. That challenge has driven building information modeling (BIM) implementation in sanitation companies, which encouraged the Brazilian company SANEAGO to use and customize Forma Data Management and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection tools for its context. Similar to other sanitation concessionaires, SANEAGO currently deals with large project volume, developed by several different design companies, for the 226 municipalities it operates. This makes document management, standardization, collaboration, project analysis, and project design quite challenging. In this talk, we'll discuss the CAD-BIM transition, covering not only software usage, but also company diagnosis, policies, and project standards establishment, which involves changes in the design processes and in the organizational culture as a whole, in order to raise BIM maturity within the company and its entire ecosystem.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Civil 3D, InfoDrainage, and Forma Data Management: A Trifecta of Drainage Design Power
Don't just analyze your storm pipe networks; design them in one go with Civil 3D and InfoDrainage Ultimate software. Supercharge your workflow using Forma Data Management software to store rainfall data and other design resources. Exchange data between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage for green infrastructure efficiency. Save time by storing pipe exchange settings and collaborating in the cloud.
39p
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.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Asset Commissioning: Implementation of BIM Technologies in a Large Water and Wastewater Company
Sabesp is the largest sanitation company in the Americas and one of the largest in the world. It is responsible for water supply and sewage collection in 375 municipalities, serving 28+ million people. The company's large numbers are accompanied by complex challenges. This presentation will explore the experience of an ambitious corporate building information modeling (BIM) implementation program, in its first wave of implementation. This implementation has as one of its main objectives the development of and access to asset information with a focus on commissioning. The program is in its second year of implementation, and you'll be able to check the advances obtained in themes that include: development of libraries and templates, development of unified processes for the use of a common data environment [Autodesk Forma, Forma Data Management, and Autodesk Platform Services (formerly Forge)], GeoBIM integration (Autodesk and Esri/GE SmallWorld), and BIM and ERP (SAP) integration. The entire technology base used in this implementation is supported by Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection from Autodesk.
32p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Mass Data Migration to BIM 360 and Autodesk Forma
Ramboll is a global engineering, architecture, and consultancy company. Our 16,000 experts create sustainable solutions across buildings, transport, water, environment and health, architecture and landscape, energy, and management consulting. Ramboll produces vast amounts of digital information and relies on terabytes of modeling data, and instant access to information to help create tomorrow's sustainable societies. This case study will look at different methods that Ramboll used to transfer project data across various servers to be hosted in a common data environment (CDE).
34p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
How to Avoid Wasting Water and Energy with the Help of BIM and GIS
In 2018, Italian Railways launched a project to help its 630 stations meet sustainable management standards, leading to savings in water and energy use. FSTechnology, a division of Italian Railways, integrated Esri and Autodesk software to improve workflows for survey, design, and maintenance of its railway stations. Interoperability between Autodesk Forma, Civil 3D, and Esri ArcGIS enables a digital twin of the entire network. A GIS web app of the whole Italian network, including every site and station, was developed to monitor the status of the entire system. An interactive dashboard allows the management team to keep an eye on the KPI and take action whenever needed. FSTechnology is currently working to include Autodesk Tandem in the workflow to collect data from IoT devices, such as meters or sensors.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Using Autodesk Forma and Cadac Control for Water Authority Drents Overijsselse Delta
Every asset owner wants to be in control of their assets and associated data. But how can we ensure that is data is up to date and correct so that it accurately translates to the correct information? How do we cope with changes, and can we ensure that the contractor or engineering firm receives the correct information? Additionally, there's a growing demand to make the data accessible and user-friendly in relation to geography. The Water Authority Drents Overijsselse Delta has made some changes to cope with this challenge. To create an accessible environment, it plots its assets on geographic information system (GIS) layers using ArcGIS GeoBIM. Additionally, the Water Authority wants to ensure that all its existing and new assets are being monitored correctly and are reliable according to national and organizational requirements. To achieve this goal, it's using the power of Autodesk Forma in combination with Cadac Control and Model Coordination.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Doubling a Capital investment Program to $3 Billion: How the @One Alliance Has Changed Gear Within the UK Water Sector

The @one Alliance has delivered more than $1.5 billion in projects throughout the past five years, but is now fast approaching a $3 billion program. Hear about our challenges, successes, and mistakes, and how we're overcoming them through the application of new technology, innovation, and change in the team culture.

42p
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Exploring the Reality and Future of Digital Prototypings in Infrastructure and Construction Meetup

Digital Prototypings are transforming the infrastructure and construction industry by bridging the gap between physical and digital realms. Join us at Autodesk University for a dynamic meetup where we’ll dive into the complexities, practical realities, and future of Digital Prototyping technology.
We’ll explore key topics such as how Digital Prototypings differ from other tools like BIM and GIS, the role of AI and real-time data in reshaping digital practices, and their unique applications in sectors like water utilities. We'll also explore how data insights are driving intelligent construction and fostering integrated ecosystems.
Whether you're evaluating the potential of Digital Prototyping technology, seeking to understand its benefits for Infrastructure and Construction, or looking to connect with industry experts over casual networking, this meetup has something for everyone. Hosted by knowledgeable Autodesk employees from our research, product and consulting teams, participants will gain valuable insights, share experiences, and build meaningful connections.
Join us for an engaging conversation on what it takes to bring Digital Prototypings to life and explore the future of construction and infrastructure through the lens of this transformative technology.

Panel / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | Advancing Sustainable Design Across Industries Through AI-Driven Insights
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming Sustainable Design strategies, helping companies reduce carbon footprints, optimize resources, and make more-informed decisions. But how does this innovation intersect with the tools companies already rely on? This panel will explore how AI-powered solutions are integrating with Autodesk technology to deliver Sustainable Design insights across industries. Experts from members of Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Tech Partner Program will share how their AI-driven platforms are using Autodesk software to solve real-world challenges. From infrastructure design Automation, Integration, & Customization to predictive water asset management and carbon-conscious manufacturing, the discussion will highlight tangible examples of AI’s impact. You’ll gain insights into how AI and Autodesk solutions work together to accelerate Sustainable Design goals, overcome adoption barriers, and shape the future of responsible design and engineering.
15p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Smarter Drainage Design for a Resilient Future (Without Drowning in Data)
Resilient infrastructure demands smarter design—especially as flood risks rise and environmental targets tighten. In this industry talk, we’ll explore how evolving regulatory and environmental challenges in the United Kingdom have shaped the way we approach surface water management on major infrastructure programs. In the past—while working with large, complex sites and multiple data-rich models—we’ve faced limitations in relation to integration, scale, and design flexibility. By transitioning to new approaches and tools such as InfoDrainage software, we’ve unlocked new efficiencies in design workflows, enabled spatial coordination, and better supported the delivery of sustainable, resilient systems. With case studies from recent UK projects, we’ll also touch on the integration of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and green infrastructure to meet climate goals and protect the environment. You’ll gain practical strategies for implementing more-intelligent, future-ready drainage designs—and you’ll get a few fresh perspectives along the way!
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
A Novel Approach to Scalable Data-Driven Pluvial Modeling with a 1D and 2D Hydrodynamic Flood Model Tool

In the summer of 2023, Cleveland, Ohio, faced extreme convective storms that caused localized flooding due to intense rainfall overwhelming catch basins. However, a catchment flood model simulation showed no flooding, highlighting the model’s failure to capture surface water. To address catchment model limitations, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) partnered with MIT to develop a regional, 2D, ICM model. This research develops a scalable, data-driven, pluvial flood model using a 2D, rain-on-mesh, ICM hydrodynamic model with detailed urban textures. The ICM model findings accurately replicated observed flood locations. High-resolution model validation is key, supported by advances in sensors, monitoring, and crowd-sourced data (though often underused). NEORSD and the City of Cambridge (Massachusetts) offer rich data sets. This presentation will showcase a novel validation framework integrating remote sensing and real-time data, applied to a city-scale, high-resolution flood model in Cleveland and Cambridge in collaboration with local agencies.

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