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Colliers Engineering & Design’s (CED) transition from on-prem Vault to Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) was driven by the need to eliminate data silos, support massive datasets, and scale across multi-discipline teams and acquisitions. This session explores how CED approached the shift strategically — partnering with ARKANCE and Autodesk to reimagine workflows while honoring what already worked well. You’ll learn how to analyze your current environment, define end goals, and run effective pilot programs with SAT/UAT testing to evaluate performance, latency, and user experience. Discover the importance of documentation, change management, and building an ACC Guideline and Data Process Document to support rollout and adoption. Whether you're a large firm or a small team, this session offers practical insights, lessons learned, and a roadmap to a successful ACC migration — paving the way for connected clouds, integrations, and a smarter future.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Eyes in the Sky, Intelligence on the Ground: Boosting Site Safety and Efficiency with Drones and GeoAI

This session will explore how current drone imagery and GeoAI are transforming jobsites into smarter, safer, and more connected environments. Discover how leading firms like Brasfield & Gorrie are using drones to reduce utility strikes, identify hazards before they become accidents, and ensure real-time safety compliance. See how automated aerial data collection is being seamlessly integrated into CAD and geographic information system (GIS) environments—supercharging workflows in Autodesk Civil 3D software and beyond. We’ll showcase how GeoAI is merging spatial intelligence with design data to unlock faster decisions, greater transparency, and safer outcomes. Through compelling case studies, technical insights, and best practices, you’ll walk away with a playbook for putting aerial data and AI-driven insights to work. Don’t miss this interactive session packed with real-world examples, proven strategies, and a live Q&A.

36p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Innovators Stage | Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Prototypings

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Prototypings make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Prototypings are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Architecting with Steel: Design Large, Complex 3D-Printed Structures leveraging Fusion!

Meet "The Brænch"—an organic 3-meter-high steel structure fabricated with advanced 3D printing technology. This class showcases how our cross-disciplinary team used Fusion to unlock novel design workflows and create unique architectural elements that are 3 times cheaper than if they were die cast. We'll demonstrate why architects should consider adding Fusion to their toolbox for generative design, optimization, and FEA simulation to move beyond certain limitations of Rhino/Grasshopper. Through detailed examples, we'll present an integrated workflow improving material efficiency and structural performance in large-scale metal components. The class targets architects first approaching manufacturing, practically demonstrating how to align design with fabrication requirements, opening possibilities for applications such as façade components and structural elements while leveraging additive manufacturing to tackle material transportation, construction cost, and supply chain challenges.

61p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Democratizing Machine-Learning Catchment Modeling: From Simulation to Surrogates

Explore how you can use artificial intelligence (AI) to extend the reach and accessibility of catchment-specific machine learning (ML) in InfoWorks ICM software without sacrificing hydraulic fidelity. This session will introduce the concept of training surrogate ML models on local InfoWorks ICM simulations to predict flows at key locations across a catchment. You’ll learn how Autodesk is generating and deploying these surrogates to quickly forecast system performance without computationally expensive simulations. The approach offers a new way to support rapid scenario testing, stakeholder engagement, and real-time operational insight without hurting a hydraulic equation. The session will present a practical framework for integrating AI in a way that empowers more users and accelerates insights.

15p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

InfoAsset Manager—Multitasking Chameleon for Utility Digital Prototypings: A City of Baltimore DPW Case Study

Under a consent decree since 2002 that was modified in 2017 (MCD), the City of Baltimore’s Department of Public Works (DPW) manages the operation and maintenance (O&M) and capital improvement (CIP) activities required by the MCD, in addition to a broader mission to implement sound asset management principles across the organization. This presentation will feature a deep dive into the evolution of DPW’s sewer data management and asset management programs—facilitated in part by the implementation of InfoAsset Manager, which led to the optimization of their O&M and CIP plans. You’ll learn the processes within the software and strategies employed to select assets for condition assessment; import; manage and evaluate the inspection data; develop O&M programs for cyclical cleaning, root, and grease control; and develop CIP projects using condition assessment data. We’ll also describe the multiple savings to DPW following the software implementation over the past five years.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Connected Infrastructure: Integrating Datum360 with InfoAsset Manager, InfoWorks ICM, and InfoWorks WS Pro for Live Asset Synchronization

In this technical instruction session, we’ll explore how integrating Datum360 with InfoAsset Manager and hydraulic modeling tools like InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro software can establish a single source of truth for utility asset data. This session will walk through the architecture of a live integration pipeline—connecting BIM updates to hydraulic models in near real time. When a designer updates a pipe diameter in an intelligent model, the change is registered in Datum360 using a unique asset ID. From there, data flows to InfoAsset Manager using the Ruby Exchange API. It is finally synchronized with InfoWorks ICM or InfoWorks WS Pro. The result is a continuously accurate, up-to-date hydraulic model that utility owners can rely on—without time-consuming manual data entry. This connected workflow enables faster updates, better decision making, and significant operational savings.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Rethinking Wet Weather Modeling: Applying GIM Hydrology to Sanitary Sewer Systems for Long-Term Infiltration

The groundwater infiltration model (GIM) has traditionally been reserved for combined sewer systems—but prolonged wet weather response in separated sanitary systems demands a new approach. This presentation will explore how the Trinity River Authority of Texas (TRA) and its consultants redefined modeling practices by applying GIM to better simulate multi-week infiltration events. Historically considered unsuitable for sanitary systems, GIM proved essential for capturing peak flows and volumes critical to treatment-plant sizing, storage planning, and operational strategy. As the design support needs of engineers and managers evolve, TRA’s hydraulic modeling practices have adapted, expanding run durations and improving calibration methodologies. This case study challenges the status quo and sets a new standard for how InfoWorks ICM software’s hydrology can be used to meet real-world operational demands.

45p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Help Shape a Smarter AutoCAD

Have you ever been doing the same thing repeatedly in AutoCAD software and thought, “Shouldn’t it know what I’m doing by now?” Or maybe you spend too much time drafting and not enough time designing. AutoCAD is the gold standard—but maybe in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) it could be smarter. This is where you come in. The focus of this class is making AutoCAD more powerful. Not more buttons—smarter software. Think of the recent smart blocks, but go beyond that. There’s similar geometry we all draw whether you’re in civil, manufacturing, and so on. We’re forever drawing things parallel, perpendicular, tangent, or concentric. What if AutoCAD picked up on this and started to draw for us? Join us for a discussion with AutoCAD product managers Peter Qian and Can Anbarlilar. We’ll touch on the current progress on this initiative and then move to discussion, with Brian Levendowski mediating. Be a part of shaping the future of AutoCAD!

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts: Quantifying and Reducing Background Leakage Using InfoWater Pro

Huge volumes of drinking water are lost to background leakage during distribution. This entails large financial and environmental footprints from extraction, transport, treatment, storage, and pumping. While water models usually simplify leakage to behave as fixed demands, InfoWater Pro software’s new modeling capabilities explicitly incorporate the sensitivity of losses to pressure changes. In this session, we will demonstrate how to easily convert a regular distribution model into one with realistic leakage using a new allocation tool. Both hydraulic and asset pipe information (such as age, number of connections, and material) is used to determine realistic allocations of known leakage amounts per zone to individual elements. Moreover, we will explore how a leakage-aware model can lead to detailed spatiotemporal estimates of water loss under different operating scenarios, and lead to precise quantifications of the economic and hydraulic effects of asset replacement and pressure-control programs.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Learn How to Unlock Insights from 3D Ground Data in Civil 3D with GeoDin Ground for Informed Infrastructure Design Choices

Ground data is key to constructing safe, cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure. As an Autodesk strategic partner, Fugro developed GeoDin Ground app for Civil 3D software to transform infrastructure design by providing designers and civil engineers with contextual and comprehensive ground data through an integration with GeoDin, a leading geotechnical data management, analysis, and reporting software. The GeoDin Ground app allows designers to see into the ground. How does this work exactly? We’ll show and teach you all the major insights in this session. We’ll import geotechnical data directly into Civil 3D, visualize boreholes, and create surfaces and volumes with GeoDin Ground. Finally, we’ll analyze geotechnical data between surfaces and create volume reports. And we’ll demonstrate the benefits of visualizing and analyzing infrastructure in combination with ground layers. You’ll leave the session with a bigger picture of the impact of GeoDin Ground and a practical understanding of the app.

25p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Ramp It Up: Civil 3D Tactics for Accessible Design

Accessibility is more than a checkbox—it’s an ethical design priority that starts with your site layout decisions, which drive your entire grading design. As civil engineers and designers, we shape how people interact with and experience the built environment. Prioritizing accessibility ensures spaces are inclusive, functional, and welcoming for all. This session will focus on using feature lines and grading objects in Civil 3D software to design accessible areas such as ramps, landings, and walkways. We’ll explore key accessibility considerations—like slope, cross-slope, and elevation transitions—while maintaining flexibility and precision in your grading model. You’ll learn how to apply Civil 3D tools and surface styles to create accurate, construction-ready designs that meet technical and regulatory standards. Whether working on a small site or large development, this session will equip you with strategies to confidently integrate accessibility into your grading design.

14p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

ACC Roadmap Workshop: Preconstruction

Join us to learn about our product strategy and all upcoming initiatives across our preconstruction solutions: BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Autodesk Takeoff, and ProEst. This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore new ideas about the future of preconstruction with our R&D teams.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Real-World Problems: Taming the Mighty Red River of the North with AutoCAD® Civil 3D®

The cities of Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN, are divided by the Red River of the North because of major yearly flooding. To address this, a new six-mile earthen levee system that includes five separate interior drainage systems, five 100-year regional storm water retention basins, and five 5,000 GPM storm water pumping stations was designed. Due to the large scale of project and the issues that arose, Ulteig Engineers asked for the assistance of their current reseller, Managed Design. The issues pertaining to this project were file size, slow drawings, and issues around being able to have more team members help with the project. Managed Design was hired to come in during the project to help identify bottlenecks in the process. What will be shown and discussed are the results and the final product of implementing both composite surfaces and data shortcuts into their design process. You will be able to ask your questions to both the prime civil tech designer on the project and the corresponding application engineer from Managed Design.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Checkmate Your Checkpoints with Digital Work Plans

In a rapidly shifting reality, enhanced control and collaboration are critical to fostering efficient progress. Proficient schedule management helps meet the rigorous demands of project timelines. The integration of digital work plans propels your projects into the realm of new possibilities, providing a clear path toward set milestones and checkpoints. This session will cover how Skanska Sweden, in collaboration with Autodesk, evaluated and embraced the new work-planning features within Autodesk Build software. We'll focus on how users can ensure answers with just a few clicks by using the Autodesk Construction Cloud interoperable environment in conjunction with schedule and production plans. Learn how to exit the maze of phone calls, emails, and complex spreadsheets by joining us to gain valuable insights into our experience with Autodesk's connected schedule capabilities. Shift from siloed work plans to a more streamlined and efficient digital solution.

20p

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