We all enter the future where there is no place to waste time on commuting. Our businesses have to be as efficient as possible. “Evolve or die”—now this motto is more relevant than ever. More and more professional engineers choose remote work because design is quite similar to the IT sphere, where remote work has become more common than it was 10 years ago. So, we decided to use remote work in Roseco at once, and haven’t regretted yet. We think that the remote design market should be developed to give more professionals the possibility of working as they like. We have four years of experience in project management with remote engineers; we shared our expertise at Autodesk University Russia, and we’d like to share it worldwide. And BIM 360 software is the only solution, making remote work in BIM (Building Information Modeling) possible. You need a common data environment for each project you are working with, unless you are working with it alone. For us, it is BIM 360.

Whilst cloud-based platforms like BIM360 powerfully connect project teams and data, this very ability to connect in real time – with decisions and actions made based on the connected information – brings a host of potential unintended and avoidable misunderstandings, increased liability and risks. E.g. who is responsible for errors/corruption in data accessed by external parties? Is the party hosting the platform responsible for misuse of the platform and data in it? What obligations do parties accessing the BIM360 or other platform have to the hosting party? This is an expensive ticking time-bomb of liability and disputes waiting to happen. However, there are presently no resources or practical advices on how to mitigate/avoid such issues or how to explain them to your lawyers so they can help you avoid the risks. In this class, you will be given practical, useful advice and tips on how to reduce risk and clarify parties’ rights and obligations via clear process, guidance and terms.

The BIM 360 Product Management Team will review the recent enhancements to the Document Management module and share priorities for the product road map. Learn about how BIM 360 software can help you publish, manage, review, and approve all project drawings, documents, and models across the project lifecycle.

This presentation will focus on how the UA is developing skilled labor by BIM integration into their training to meet the needs of the plumbing, mechanical and fire protection contractors. We will show how we have taken a scan to BIM project and developed additional uses in training including plan reading, safety training, point layout, virtual design and scan to BIM. We will also discuss our recruitment efforts to expand our membership to meet the needs of the construction industry utilizing the latest technology and creating multiple career paths for our members. The UA is excited to bring this presentation to Autodesk University to show how our partnership with Autodesk and many others has expanded our training and uplifted our members and created career paths that are changing the construction industry.

If you've ever wrestled to coordinate on a design project with multiple companies you know the pain of getting everyone into on system where the design can be shared, viewed, reviewed and iterated on. Join me in a demonstration on workflows and best practices as we explore BIM 360 Design Collaboration, BIM 360 document Management and Revit to show how these products work together to facilitate grand designs. Along the way we will explore tips and tricks for setup and workflow that will save time and frustration as well as explore a few technical tips for troubleshooting common issues.

This in-product demonstration will explain how BIM 360 software now exceeds BIM Level 2 requirements for a common data environment, providing the managed exchange of project information across all disciplines, from design through construction and turnover. This session will emphasize several easy-to-implement processes for reviewing and approving document sets as key to passing data efficiently through the 4 BIM Level 2 document states of Work-In-Progress (WIP), Shared, Published, and Archive. The agenda will include the following: the BIM Level 2 common data environment: essential and dispensable; assigning BIM Level 2-compliant custom attributes; using BIM 360 Document Sets as information delivery plans; accelerating WIP collaboration with BIM 360 Design; BIM Level 2 review and approval in BIM 360 Document Management; resolving model clashes in BIM 360 Model Coordination; and digital constructability reviews with InfraWorks software and BIM 360.

The BIM 360 Product Management Team will review the recent enhancements to the Design Collaboration module and share priorities for the product road map. Learn about how BIM 360 software can help you publish, manage, review, and approve all project drawings, documents, and models across the project lifecycle.

For this project, we used BIM 360 Docs software as a collaborative platform that centralizes models, documents, and meta data. This class’s main goal is to show how Brunet Saunier Architecture implemented and used BIM 360 Docs workflows on a large hospital project in Paris, France. The first part will cover design and construction phases for one of the Lariboisière hospital buildings (6,000 square meters). We’ll describe how the firm implemented and used BIM 360 collaborative processes to involve the hospital owner, as well as three construction companies (general contractor, plumbing, and HVAC). In the second part, we’ll cover the design of the hospital’s main building (55,000 square meters) and what is planned for the construction phase in the future. The owner conducted a procedure that awarded six contracts (disciplines); each company was asked to provide full intelligent models (geometry and data). We are planning on using BIM 360 to ensure the data is unique and consistent, and that it matches the contracts.

"Join ACS product managers for an update on the recent advancements in BIM 360 Document Management and a look into the future direction of the product. BIM 360 Document Management serves as the common data platform for BIM 360, and supports core publishing, sharing, approving and editing of plans, models and documents."

BIM 360 software introduces a common language for all construction stakeholders, from design to facility management. We will show you how to organize this common language, and use all the new BIM 360 modules (Document Management, Design Collaboration, Model Coordination and Project/Field Management) in the smartest way. We will also show how you could connect BIM 360 to external applications and databases using our Forge development platform. Implementing the use of this common language is similar to solving a puzzle, as there are different BIM 360 pieces of technology (cloud and desktop) that we need to put together in the right order and position. This presentation will be based on our knowledge and users’ feedback.

The release of BIM 360 Design Collaboration showed that as the tools we use to design the world of the future develop at an ever-increasing pace, we need to think differently to make the most of these advances. Following a successful multiproject pilot of BIM 360 Design Collaboration, we identified that what worked well in fewer than 10 projects was going to be difficult in 100 projects, and impossible to sustain for 1,000 projects. This industry talk will look at how Mott MacDonald—a global engineering, development, and management consultancy—worked with Autodesk Consulting to design an approach to master this transition from pilot to production scale. We’ll share lessons learned, from developing a global network of BIM 360 super users, to using Forge and Microsoft Power BI to gain better insights into user behavior and BIM 360 usage, to measuring the ROI of BIM 360 software, to managing BIM 360 as an IT service in a large enterprise.

One of the first issues owners face at the onset of a project is deciding on which project delivery method to use. Design-bid-build is slowly going extinct, especially for large, complicated projects with challenging schedules. Construction management at risk (CMAR) is a more attractive method, even though it doesn’t quite describe how we work. Design-build is on the rise, but many owners still feel like they’re paying a premium by preselecting the team. Lastly, integrated project delivery (IPD) leaves a lot to be desired, as most of the owners are still not willing to share the risk but expect the benefits. So, if none of those methods align with how we work, what does the future of project delivery look like? In your experience, are any of the current contracts and procurement methods truly aligned with how we ideally need to work? Join this vibrant roundtable and share your thoughts and experiences about technology-driven delivery, innovation, risks, and constraints of where our built-environment industry is inevitably headed.

One of the core features of delivering a BIM (Building Information Modeling) project is design coordination and clash detection. You need to check clashes between different discipline models to ensure reduced site-errors issues. This lab will focus on creating clash templates that can be reused on various BIM projects to save time and money. In this lab, you’ll create search sets for items such as structural members, mechanical ductwork, plumbing, floors, ceilings, and so on. These will be created by searching Revit element categories that are common to most Revit models. You’ll then perform clash tests based on these search sets. These clash tests will then be exported as a clash template and then imported into other files. This will let you save time when setting up these standard clashes in other files and projects.

The next-generation BIM 360 platform creates a more integrated solution for your cloud-work-shared projects. With the Design Collaboration workflow, project data and members are more unified throughout every stage of the project lifecycle, creating a more efficient process. So, before shaking up the office by switching to BIM 360 Design software, it’s best to understand what the next-generation BIM 360 platform is and how you can benefit from making the switch. In this session, we will explore the differences between Collaboration For Revit and BIM 360 Design, and we’ll look at how you can improve your team’s efficiency by switching to the BIM 360 platform. We will also go through workflows and methods to help make the transition from Collaboration For Revit to BIM 360 Design smoother for you and your firm.

Coordinating a hospital is very complex. Finding ways to save the owner money, speed up construction, and keep the intended design and feel of the building is extremely complicated. That is why as a general contractor we needed to start the coordination of the hospital earlier on by using BIM 360 Design software, BIM 360 Docs software, and BIM 360 Glue software. In this class, we’ll discuss how we got the design team and subcontractors on board, and the benefits we gained from moving the coordination of the project earlier in the design phase.

The class will highlight standards and best practices for design technology management across design firms. Firms using strategic collaboration get an enhanced return on investment (ROI) that enables them to reach and build pioneering success on the prowess of human capital. This class will showcase the processes involved in delivering the vision of firms’ management to achieve digital leadership in the industry. Design leadership has multiple facets and can be summarized as The Three Ps: Projects, Processes, and People. Design leadership is at its best when it creates best processes and standards across all projects by raising the people skills. This class will help hone and develop tomorrow’s leaders to lead the change and pioneer digital leadership across firms.

In August 2015, Arkansas Children's, Inc., announced plans to build a freestanding children's hospital in Springdale, Arkansas. The new building—Arkansas Children's Northwest—includes 235,000 square feet of inpatient beds, emergency care, diagnostic services, and clinical space. The hospital's Construction and Facilities Team put together a detailed set of data specifications to streamline the handover of the building and jumpstart maintenance and operations. The goal was to have all equipment data populated in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) by substantial completion in the fall of 2017. This enabled critical maintenance processes to be in place before completion. To realize that vision, a number of issues had to be addressed to successfully hand over data before the end of the project. This presentation will walk through planning, design, construction, the beginning of operations, and the ongoing preventative maintenance plans.

The handoff between project engineers and fabricators is a key juncture in project delivery. Any mistakes at this stage can mean costly rework and project delays, and an inefficient handoff of design data can bloat budgets and unnecessarily extend project schedules—leading to cost over runs, litigation, and unnecessary headaches for owners. The Autodesk-sponsored Engineering Executive Council explains how improvements to the current situation will benefit project owners—improve project quality, reduce costs, speed up timelines—and offer some initial solutions. The Council will present customer stories of “best practices” to owners followed by a discussion on how to put them into practice. An example will be The Engineering Research Center at Brown University which utilized integrated project delivery (IPD) with cloud-based BIM (Building Information Modeling) technologies (BIM 360 Design software and Revit software) which resulted in a 90% cost reduction and 20% time savings. The project was delivered within budget and two months early.

Whether you’re part of a small company or a large firm with multiple offices, there’s a great deal of benefit in transitioning to the BIM 360 cloud-based platform to enable flexibility and avoid slowdowns associated with VPN. If you’ve already transitioned, the focus shifts to developing workflows and best practices to maximize the benefits of BIM 360 while maintaining consistency project to project, or even office to office. This class will apply to multiple levels of expertise, discussing how to set up BIM 360 projects, assign appropriate levels of permissions, set up teams, and schedule automatic publishing. We’ll even touch on the less commonly used BIM 360 Model Coordination module and BIM 360 Field software. Diving a little deeper, we will also discuss creating BIM 360 templates, documenting workflows, and providing trainings for wide-scale implementation. We will use Allegiant Stadium in Nevada as an example of the benefits and challenges that result from placing the design team and construction team in the same BIM 360 hub.

BIM 360 Cost Management was introduced earlier this year with capabilities to support budgets, contracts and change orders. Join ACS product managers to discover how to execute these workflows in BIM 360, as well as learn about the new capabilities in the module to support additional cost management capabilities.