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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings
Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.
2p
New Orleans 2022
What If... Convergence of Desktop, Collaboration, Data, and Digitization
We are starting to see a convergence of different industries and disciplines like we have never seen before. Construction and manufacturing for modular construction and building product manufacturing coming further into design. Plant and power owners using these same methodologies to help meet deadlines and set quality standards. Owners using digital twin and integrated factory modeling for digitalization of factory building and production lines. Digitization in infrastructure for everything below or above ground. Along with GIS, the ability to explore locations, events, and trends so stakeholders can be better informed or create awareness of the environment. See how today’s current desktop and cloud technologies like Revit, Inventor, Forma, and Fusion are helping to bring a common data environment to multiple industries. Understand how Collaboration, Connected Data, and Digitization are bringing the “art of the possible” to a level that we have never seen before.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Don’t Just Follow the Tool. Lead the Workflow.
Finding a platform that accommodates all of your needs is impossible. In this session, we, as an owner organization, are on a mission to make the impossible possible. We’ll walk through our real-world deployment of Autodesk Forma, showcasing challenges we’ve faced and highlighting how Automation, Integration, & Customization and standardized processes have streamlined our workflows. At the Copenhagen Metro, we are shaping the cityscape through our large-scale infrastructure projects. To support scalable collaboration across our extensive network of consultants and contractors, we’re deploying customizations for Autodesk Forma to accommodate our process needs.
22p
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.

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
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Data to Informed Design: Unlocking GIS-Powered Urban Design with Autodesk Forma Plus Esri
The future of sustainable, equitable urban design hinges on access to actionable data at the earliest design stages. This session will explore the ongoing strategic alliance between Autodesk and Esri, with an exclusive look at the new Autodesk Forma extension for ArcGIS that integrates deep geographic information system (GIS) insights directly into design workflows. You’ll hear from Lake Flato Architects’ Urban Planning Studio, the Forma team, and Esri’s Professional Services about how the Forma real-time simulation and massing tools, combined with robust GIS layers—from flood risk and green infrastructure to demographic and zoning data—can empower planning decisions that balance ecology, equity, and economy. Through real-world examples and a forward-looking road map, we’ll show how GIS-driven design accelerates collaboration and unlocks transformational outcomes for communities.
8p
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 / San Diego 2024
Speed Up Large Data Sets in Civil 3D: Best Practices and New Techniques

When a large-scale infrastructure project gets started, you'll need to use tools in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to work with your data efficiently. The information in this session will reduce the time it takes to process huge files, from processing LiDAR-based surface models in ReCap software to implementing Autodesk Forma workflows. Speed up open times, improve collaboration, and learn best practices you can use immediately. We'll dive into topics that include: determining when to break up files using Data Shortcuts, managing .mms files for large surface models, using Forma Data Management software for data management, and adjusting AutoCAD settings for optimal performance.

30p
New Orleans 2022
Telecommunications Infrastructure Design Utilizing Revit with Dynamo
At Burns & McDonnell we have revolutionized our standard design process for telecom infrastructure projects by embracing a BIM workflow with Revit as the primary authoring tool. The addition of Dynamo has allow for us to automate many design tasks and functions resulting in increased efficiency and quality. Housing our project data within the Autodesk Forma platform provides near limitless opportunity to leverage design data during construction, minimizing rework and enhancing collaboration between design teams and field crews. This presentation provides a look at using Revit in an innovative way in order to modernize a design process in a unique industry.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Workflows to develop, manage & integrate Infrastructure BIM Projects
The year is 2021, and BIM is steadily becoming the norm in the industry. While Building projects have welcomed BIM, there still is a lot to explore when it comes to Infrastructure projects in India, especially in the case of higher levels of details (LOD) model requirements. In this talk, we will look at some case studies from large Indian construction projects where Autodesk tools were successfully utilized for taking BIM to a new level, with construction and fabrication workflows in mind. Additionally, aspects of modern, cloud-based project management using tools from Autodesk Forma shall be discussed and how the data within the models can be connected to other applications by leveraging the power of Autodesk Forge platform will be covered.
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
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
From Quick Sketches to Autodesk Forma for Electrical Substation Delivery
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) will be managing the expansion of its Transmission Infrastructure to meet carbon net zero and growth in offshore wind generation by 2030, with an expected annual project spend of £1 billion. With growing demands on resources and a goal to save £250 million by 2026, SSEN partnered with Mott MacDonald to develop a practical approach for substation design using Autodesk Forma and the Autodesk suite of tools. While the traditional methods were fit for purpose, we needed to minimize data loss between project stages, enhance collaboration, and optimize the productivity of the workforce. Adoption of this workflow led to a 30% time savings in the early design phase and improved transfer of project data during detail design. And it provided tangible insights for process improvement and business decisions. The result is a workflow that's scalable and can be adopted across different organizations looking for transformational change to their infrastructure delivery.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Monitoring Railway Infrastructure Sites Through BIM and GIS
Due to their nature, rail infrastructure projects greatly benefit from the adoption of workflows based on intelligent models and point clouds to allow off-site analyses without the need of the physical presence on the field. FSTechnology, a division of the Italian Railways, set up this workflow based on an integration of Autodesk software—including Autodesk Forma, Revit software, and Civil 3D software—with Esri ArcGIS GeoBIM. We combined CAD, building information modeling (BIM), point clouds, and orthophotos with geographic information system (GIS) and game engine technologies and added the construction program in a browser-based 4D solution with issue tracking. This is not only intended to monitor the progress of the physical works being executed, but also to achieve better control during the maintenance phase of the railways. All these combined and advanced technologies help us to monitor the most-critical infrastructures like viaducts and bridges, and factors of environmental interest and relevance, supported by artificial intelligence.
36p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
How Digital Project Delivery Increases Operational Efficiency
During this class, projects members of the TELT Infrastructure megaproject will explain how to improve operational efficiency with the support of the Autodesk Forma platform and different desktop software systems. Digital project delivery helps solve one of the main challenges of the construction project: collaboration. It does this by providing up-to-date information, documents, and models, and initiating the revision workflow and the process of the design problems on the platform. From reality capture to existing-condition modeling, from design authoring to design review, the JV has been able to embrace the benefit of constructing digitally before constructing in reality, thanks to the cloud collaboration.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
ITC's Digital Transformation Journey: Achieving Kitemark Certification for ISO 19650—Being the First and Beyond
ITC Limited has developed a diverse range of infrastructure across various asset classes. However, the company recognized the need to improve project management by making outcomes more predictable. To achieve this, ITC looked toward digitalization and a cultural shift by embracing new technologies. The goals included enhancing data accessibility, incorporating building information modeling (BIM), improving digital maturity, and reducing regimental processes. With the help of Autodesk Forma, establishing a common data environment (CDE) was straightforward, enabling traceable and accountable automated workflows essential for ISO 19650 compliance. This led to the project receiving the Kitemark certification, marking it as the first in India and fourth globally to achieve "Project Kitemark certification." This achievement underscores ITC's successful digital transformation, improving information management, document standardization, workflow automation, and information exchange ecosystems.
21p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Fighting Nature: Design and Build of Lava Diversion Barriers for Ever-Changing Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland
This session will explain the latest volcanic episodes in Iceland—a constant threat to nearby town and infrastructure in the Reykjanes Peninsula. In November 2023, the 4,000-person town of Grindavík was evacuated. Working in close cooperation with the Civil Protection of Iceland, Verkís designed and managed the construction of lava diversion barriers to protect the 225 MW geothermal power plants at Svartsengi, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, and Grindavík. HEC-RAS was used to model lava flows using the latest topographical drone mapping of the surface and fresh lava. The barriers were designed and modeled in Civil 3D software, and Autodesk Forma was used to communicate design and stakeout data to multiple contractors. This study will show how the barrier design was optimized during the volcanic eruption by comparing theoretical models against actual lava flow behavior. Now 11 km of massive lava barriers have been built, which worked successfully against the lava flow and saved the town of Grindavík.
71p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Civil 3D + Autodesk Forma Integration: How to Find the Sweet Spot
Have you thought about using Autodesk Forma to host Civil 3D files, but don't know if it works? Are you using Civil 3D and Autodesk Forma and are having difficulties? Come and see how Parsons has implemented Civil 3D and Autodesk Forma on an infrastructure project. We will show you how to take files and data shortcuts from ProjectWise and put them up on Autodesk Forma. Then, we'll give you the good, the bad, and the ugly on what we did. But most importantly, you will walk away knowing how to do it the right way.
41p
30p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
The Lifecycle of a Data Center in Autodesk Platforms and Applications
The global market for computing power is increasing exponentially, and the biggest challenge the industry faces is how to deliver the required physical infrastructure fast enough to keep up. For data center owners and operators—many of whom are the largest companies in the world—it is a strategic imperative that they find new ways to accelerate how they plan, design, construct, operate, and optimize their data center facilities. Autodesk provides a range of products that owners and operators can use to help meet these objectives, but they're rarely used in a fully integrated manner throughout the life of a data center. In this session, Gafcon Digital (an Accenture company) will demonstrate how Autodesk products are being deployed on behalf of data center owners and operators for a variety of processes throughout the lives of their facilities, showcasing the use of Autodesk applications (such as Revit software, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Tandem software) and platforms.
21p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Accelerating Design: Civil 3D in the Cloud and a Journey to Global Deployment
This class will take you through Buro Happold's successful experience of integrating Autodesk Forma technology for Civil 3D software across a global engineering practice. Autodesk Forma technology has only been available for Civil 3D users for a little more than a year, so if you're interested in increasing your company's efficiency, streamlining workflows, and improving team connectivity, this is the class for you. The session will cover topics such as investment, training, rollout strategy, troubleshooting, collaboration workflows, and ROI outcomes. We'll also explore how Autodesk Forma helped us achieve an 80%–90% increase in model opening times, reduce hardware infrastructure costs by up to 70%, and increase collaboration on projects by up to 50%.
49p
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
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