Parsons, Autodesk, and Esri partnered to solve a massive challenge: how to organize, index, and expose hundreds of infrastructure projects—encompassing hundreds of thousands of CAD and BIM files—in a single, searchable, map-centered interface. This session will present a real-world case study of how the Parsons, Esri, and Autodesk Consulting teams used ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Platform Services to create an automated and scalable application that connects project locations with associated design documents, enabling users to search, view, and explore design data spatially. Learn how this solution streamlined access to critical files, broke down data silos, and unlocked new efficiencies across Parsons’ enterprise. Whether you're facing legacy data sprawl or planning your own GIS-BIM integration, this session will offer valuable insights and lessons learned.

This panel session explores how Forma is being used in the feasibility phase of the Big Bold Bordeaux Vision—a community-driven initiative to transform a large parcel of land located in North Nashville through a Community Land Trust. Co-Speakers, including local leaders and AECO professionals, will share how Forma supports early-stage analysis of zoning, urban density, and to inform equitable land use decisions. The session highlights how Forma enables transparent, data-driven planning that. Lastly, this session will focus on this process that facilitates the foundational communication between municipalities and community voices that supports long-term health equity goals.

The entire rail system design process is now managed digitally using Docs software. Instead of relying on traditional email-based file sharing and approvals, all stakeholders—including the client, consultant, and designer—collaborate in real time on a single digital platform. As a result, delays in approval phases have been significantly reduced, achieving up to 70% savings in paper usage and up to 30% time efficiency in past projects. For upcoming projects, the goal is to implement a fully digital, paperless workflow that boosts and operational efficiency across the entire design phase.

Join us as we share our journey of migrating our 16-mile transit project from ProjectWise to Construction Cloud. Executing this switch in a pretty short window was a feat that offered enormous challenges. We'll walk you through our initial assessment of the current workflow and the unexpected insights that shaped our decision. Experience our planning process and the efforts we took to preserve our project’s integrity during and after migration. Meet the team we assembled and learn how their unique perspectives created our success formula. Finally, step into the switchover command center with us as we navigate the communications that turned potential chaos into a seamless transition. This isn't just our story—it’s a road map for your own successful migration adventure.

Autodesk software empowers intelligent and connected design collaboration across teams and platforms, enhancing design efficiency and streamlining project management. Discover how you and your team can unlock this transformative experience by integrating the capabilities of Docs—a cloud-based and common data environment—with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) tools: AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Revit software. A panel discussion will tackle the industry’s pressing challenges around collaboration and information exchange, showcasing the advantages of adopting cloud-based workflows. By enabling information sharing among project partners, the Autodesk ecosystem becomes even more valuable for users. Join us to see how Docs can break down the information barriers and get you on the path toward the Forma industry cloud for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Revit users.

Embark on a hands-on “GeoTrip”—a practical journey into integrating GIS and BIM data using ArcGIS GeoBIM and Construction Cloud (ACC). This session equips attendees with workflows and tools to connect spatial and design data for deeper project insights. Participants will explore how integrated GeoBIM environments enhance decision-making, support more accurate coordination, and improve communication across project teams. We’ll dive into visualizing design and geolocation data together, enabling Digital Workplace development, real-time issue tracking, and project transparency. Attendees will also see how Revit and Civil 3D models and data are linked to GIS features, enabling spatially contextualized coordination and analysis. The session will also cover how connecting geospatial and model data lays the foundation for future AI applications, empowering owners and stakeholders with AI-ready, lifecycle-aware project environments.

Water infrastructure owners and operators face poor asset information handover due to system misalignment. Could automation and integrated data enable Digital Workplaces 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 Docs software were fused to create a geospatial common data environment (CDE)—the foundation for an operations and maintenance Digital Workplace. We’ll share valuable lessons on managing evolving data needs and supply chains to demonstrate how connected workflows made more efficient.

In complex civil infrastructure projects—such as highways, bridges, and utilities—the ability to turn field data into actionable insights is essential for performance, safety, and cost control. This session will show how MRS Logística used Build software and Insight Builder to convert raw field inputs into real-time analytics, enabling smarter and faster decisions across project lifecycles. By structuring data from Issues, RFIs, Checklists, and Forms, MRS created dynamic dashboards that track physical progress, monitor compliance, and surface predictive alerts before risks escalate. These insights connected field operations with executive decision making, providing transparency over construction quality, schedule health, and contract performance. You’ll learn how to structure data flows from the field, configure Insight Builder rules, and deploy scalable dashboards that support real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and strategic oversight in civil infrastructure delivery.

Aligning 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 , 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 Construction Cloud into our standard workflows. From implementation to integration, Construction Cloud 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.

How do you turn 20 years of fragmented, paper-based facility documentation into a powerful operational decision-making tool? Join The Kraft Group and Symetri as they unpack the strategy, technology, and value behind their development of a Digital Workplace that spans BIM and GIS for Gillette Stadium and beyond. Leveraging Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D, and ACC for model development and project delivery, this program federates BIM and other data sources and integrates with an ArcGIS-powered environment to support everything from security planning to energy management. Attendees will learn how the Autodesk ecosystem is being used to enforce data standards, and drive coordination across departments. Discover how BIM content is repurposed as operational datasets, delivering value far beyond design and construction, and how spatial context was added using GIS integration for wayfinding, event planning, and more. You'll also hear how The Kraft Group made the business case for long-term investment in Autodesk and ESRI technologies by capturing value early and often. This session is perfect for facility owners, architects, and consultants looking to evolve their BIM workflows into Digital Workplaces with real-world operational impact.

Learn how high-resolution imagery products like True Ortho imagery, 3D textured mesh, 3D point clouds, and DSM/DTM can set the stage for designing the built environment, provide site-wide content at any scale, and help jumpstart any project. AI and machine learning help identify and extract raster and vector features that give context to the design. These AI features can include building footprints, impervious surfaces, vegetation levels, infrastructure locations, pavement markings, and more. These powerful datasets can be used as the source data for your design or can be further leveraged to create additional content like linear feature extraction, surfaces, contours, and 2D/3D project visualizations.

In this class, you'll learn how to use generative design in Civil 3D software through Refinery. Starting with the prerequisite packages and initial setup, you will discover how to create a Dynamo graph for generative design purposes. You'll also learn how to create a study, assign methods, set constraints, and explore outcomes. This class assumes basic knowledge of Dynamo for Civil 3D. Join this class and take your design skills to the next level.

Luxembourg railway owner began its digital transformation journey in 2017, improving quality and efficiency for construction projects through cloud-based project delivery. There are many main subjects for asset management, including maintenance building, earthworks platform, permanent way, overhead lines, signaling, and telecommunications. One specific aspect to the country is to have external project design offices and many subcontractors, using multidisciplinary design management based on Autodesk technologies, including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, InfraWorks, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate products. The geographical aspect is taken into consideration through connected building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS). During this class, you will discover why a common data environment platform and products ecosystem save time and information for the delivery plan, and support supply chains, and how process owner mandates can be imposed on local markets, and what solutions are found to develop a business model dedicated to railway infrastructure.

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 Autodesk Docs 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.

In this session, we'll walk through a complete workflow starting inside ReCap Pro software, and publishing a point cloud to the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We'll extract linear features and bring them into Civil 3D software so we can create a simplified but highly accurate surface model. From there, we will publish the linear features as as-built information to ArcGIS Online for everyone to use. This is a workflow you've been asking for!

Autodesk strives to enhance its comprehensive products, empowering professionals from various fields with vast toolsets to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable future. Despite significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), keeping pace with innovation remains a challenge, especially when addressing sustainability complexities throughout design, construction, and operations. Hence, we present a framework using Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Innovyze products to help engineers and sustainability professionals identify sustainable solutions for civil infrastructure. Our solution democratizes sustainable design, construction, and operations through a live, collaborative platform solution, linking Envision Sustainability Guidelines and Principles with industry best practices and workflows. It aims to document practices, providing guidance across multiple dimensions of sustainability throughout the entire civil infrastructure project lifecycle.

This class will provide a comprehensive overview of building information modeling (BIM) implementation in Qatar. We will cover the road map and strategy of the Public Works Authority aligned with the Corporate Strategy and Qatar National Vision 2030. We'll discuss modern methodologies for design and construction delivery across the country, along with the development and publication of the Ashghal BIM Standards (ABIMS) based on ISO 19650. We will also examine the establishment of a BIM policy that mandates BIM use on all building and infrastructure projects, and we'll cover the challenges associated with BIM implementation. Furthermore, you will learn how BIM can be an enabler for digital construction, as well as how it's used for the operation and maintenance of Ashghal assets. The course will cover BIM technology implementation within IT infrastructure and showcase success stories from Ashghal BIM projects.

Our industry's current reliance on interoperability workflow hacks—such as app-specific import/export plug-ins, file formats with varying support across tools, and limited point-to-point translators—results in inconsistent data-sharing experiences that suck up time and require rework. Autodesk's Data Exchange app moves your disconnected workflows toward more-seamless cloud interoperability between the design tools you use every day, whether they be CAD tools or building information modeling (BIM) and 3D modeling apps (like AutoCAD software, Revit software, Tekla, Rhino, and Inventor software). In this class, you'll learn how you can use Data Exchange to curate, securely share, view, and manage design data across these apps and multiple stakeholders—with specific focus on AutoCAD and Revit interoperability. We'll explore how Data Exchange can simplify BIM/3D model-to-drawing sharing and generation, can move data more selectively and effectively from 2D to 3D, and can open the door to more-streamlined model audits and quantity takeoff (QTO).

Our panel discussion will be on the design-build process and how geographic information system (GIS) solutions improve project delivery. We'll also cover various aspects of construction, including construction monitoring, risk analysis, operations and maintenance planning, and site analysis. The panelists will share insights and project examples on how GIS technology has been used to monitor and track construction progress in real time, identifying potential risks and hazards associated with the construction process, and developing effective plans tailored to the project's specific needs. GIS technology can provide a comprehensive view of the site, including its topography, land use, and infrastructure, enabling the project team to make informed decisions throughout the design-build process. The discussion aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the design and design-build process and how GIS can be combined with building information modeling (BIM) and together maximized to improve project delivery.

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 Construction Cloud, 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.