Learn how Smart Building Operations differ from conventional building operations, and why BIM is essential for Smart Building Operations. This session will discuss the future of the Smart Building industry, the technical and business challenges, and how Eutech have used Autodesk Forge and Autodesk BIM360 to create a comprehensive Smart Building Management application.

Detailed indoor maps can significantly improve building management and operations while delivering amazing user experiences inside buildings and facilities. With the Apple Indoor Maps Program, Apple makes it easy for organizations to easily add indoor maps to apps and websites and enable indoor positioning, all without the need to install beacons. This session will go into detail about the Indoor Program and how Autodesk’s building operations product, BIM 360 Ops, integrates with it.

SAMSUNG C&T uses digital twins to optimize building operations. We have developed a digital twin with BIM and AI in an office building with a total floor area of 100,000 square meters, and we are utilizing it to operate the building. The basic functions are the Energy/Asset/Space Management, and Virtual Tours. In particular, the energy management function monitors building energy usage in real time. And we have developed 10 solutions for energy management that can save energy while maintaining the comfort of occupants in the building. These solutions are derived through AI-based machine learning models and optimization algorithms to provide real-time notifications to building operators for sustainable and optimized building energy management. Therefore, SAMSUNG C&T aims to provide efficient building operation and management services by simultaneously implementing digital spaces, going beyond the role of a construction company that constructs physical spaces.

This course will present a novel framework and development works for enhancing building asset management, particularly operations and maintenance (O&M), by visually intuitive integration among Building Information Modeling (BIM), asset management (AM), and various electronics systems. A newly developed BIM-AM system provides an intuitive way to access heterogeneous O&M information of assets such as photos, attributes, equipment relationships, manuals, drawings, maintenance records, live views of closed circuit television (CCTV) systems, real-time sensing data from building management systems (BMS) and wireless ad-hoc sensors, as well as location information from a real-time location system (RTLS) in an integrated mobile platform. All of this information is accessible simply by asset repository, the maneuvering throughout a BIM model, or even a handheld radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning tool. The results have successfully demonstrated the use of BIM in O&M workflow, responsive incident handling, and enhancing building sustainability.

Handover can be challenging, causing frustration for owners and everyone on the project team. The reality is that executing handover is a very fragmented undertaking. What if we started with clear requirements from facilities that prevent data loss and improve the outcome for all? Imagine if all asset data were collected, organized, and prepared well before the facility's opening. Envision preventative maintenance already scheduled and maintenance records readily available on mobile devices even before operations commence. Despite the abundance of data our industry generates, owners often find themselves with either insufficient or overwhelming amounts. Of all data captured in engineering and construction, 95% goes to waste after handover! This session aims to address the genuine need for building operations. You will gain insights into essential questions to prioritize the data that facility teams truly require, rather than what we assume they should have.

Facilities operations begin when you’re given the keys to the building. But the success of the team is determined well before that—during design, construction, and turnover—when meaningful data about the building is captured and passed along. Today, most handovers are done manually, leading to massive risk of error and data loss. What’s worse, these data leaks ultimately drive up long-term operations costs. Learn how you can bridge the gaps during handoffs and set up operations teams for success with a living digital history of your building, accessible from anywhere.

Building Ops software is a mobile-first asset and maintenance management software for buildings. It helps general contractors deliver a better handover experience and building owners begin operations on Day One—while better meeting the needs of their mobile workforce. In this instructional demo, general contractors and building owners will learn how to realize the value of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in operations by using Building Ops software. We will publish equipment from Revit software and BIM 360 Field software, set up a preventive maintenance schedule, and show attendees how to connect a building in Building Ops software with a building monitored with Panoramic Power sensors. This session features Building Ops, BIM 360 Field, and Revit. AIA Approved

We tend to focus on designing and constructing new buildings, yet they represent only 2% of United States commercial buildings. Greening operations and maintenance (O&M) of existing facilities is critical, and more architecture, engineering, and construction professionals should be involved in the entire building lifecycle. The Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes and tools that we use for design and construction are essential to an O&M assessment and ongoing facility management. Revit®, Autodesk® Vasari, and Autodesk® Green Building Studio® all help with planning facility changes, in identifying heat islands, and for designing solutions. Whether a building model exists for a facility or not, point cloud data can be brought into Navisworks® to verify existing conditions. Cloud solutions from Autodesk, such as BIM 360™ Field help tremendously for verification, BIM viewing, and retro-commissioning. Come and learn how DPR Construction has approached BIM for the lifecycle.

Buzzwords like sustainability and collaboration get thrown around excessively in the building industry. This class will be discussing holistic-atruistic design representing the balance between sustainability, cost, and function. In addition to building trends, we will focus on analytics, communication and documentation tools, and deliverables impacting the entire lifecycle of a project. The class will focus on new technologies informing design, analyzing patterns of use and leveraging technology to automate controls and optimize building operation. Holistic-altruistic building practices can be achieved by leveraging human-centered design theories. We will explore this topic in addition to case studies of existing firms that are able to implement these theories into practice.

The moment a new facility opens, the data needed to operate it is immediately out of date. The disconnect between building design, construction, and operations is real and it significantly impacts building owners. The ability to locate and service critical assets from day one is compromised, risking asset performance, service quality and operational efficiency that only gets worse as time goes on. Sophisticated integrations between Autodesk and modern IWMS platforms like Archibus are streamlining this process and closing the gap. Better knowledge transfer from design to operation ensures a smoother transition, better design, and more efficient operations that significantly reduces costs, delivers a higher-quality occupier experience, and more. Join us to learn how organizations are leveraging these systems to maximize operational performance and extract data from their physical environment to make more informed decisions that strengthen their future.

Facilities operations begin when you’re given the keys to the building. But the success of the team is determined well before that—during design, construction, and turnover—when meaningful data about the building is captured and passed along. Today, most handovers are done manually, leading to massive risk of error and data loss. What’s worse, these data leaks ultimately drive up long-term operations costs. Learn how you can bridge the gaps during handoffs and set up operations teams for success with a living digital history of your building, accessible from anywhere.

With Building Ops software, we can truly focus on the “I” in BIM (Building Information Modeling). Building Ops software brings a business value that enables the owner to reduce cost, ensure equipment continuity, and future proof investments by streamlining the owner-driven BIM process. Manually entering asset data into your integrated workplace management suite will become a thing of the past. Manual data collection has been a difficult task, wasting precious time, effort, and capital. Improving this workflow by using validated data directly from BIM will give your staff access to asset information, history, maintenance manuals, and the 3D model from before the first day of operation. With Building Ops software, you get the right asset data to your personnel when they need it, where they need it. We will show a central plant utilizing Building Ops software. This session features Building Ops and Revit. AIA Approved

Step into the evolving world of building information modeling (BIM) and digital twins, and learn how to master their application beyond the build phase and into the building operations. Discover how to enhance your building portfolio management with a focus on practical, user-friendly solutions. We'll explore the seamless integration of Autodesk Tandem and Eptura, providing you with the tools to streamline your facility management. You'll learn how to adapt these innovations to your specific operational needs, and gain actionable strategies for effectively using asset and building data across your building portfolio. This session will also provide insights into making these technologies accessible, alongside real-world case studies that illustrate successful applications during various operational stages.

Concluding the class presented at Autodesk University 2015, Elliott Crossley returns to discuss the construction phase of a £330 million project in the UK. This class reveals the strategy and workflows involved in integrating fabrication information back into the Building Information Model, divulging the toolbox of a multidisciplinary design team at BDP from inception to completion, challenging current technology throughout, to deliver an Asset Information Model suitable for use in building operation.

Follow the information as it traverses the construction project lifecycle from design to build to operations. Participants will learn how to link their Building Information Modeling (BIM) from authoring tools such as AutoCAD software and Revit software to BIM 360 Glue software for design coordination, then to BIM 360 Field software for construction field execution. We will then review options for outputting information for operations and maintenance.

Join us for an engaging session on digital twins, and discover how this innovative technology can transform the way you manage your properties and facilities! With a lot of talk about digital twins (DT), Multiconsult wanted to gain first-hand experience by creating a DT Proof of Concept for a rehabilitated office building. In this session you'll learn the value DT can create for the building's operators and owners, the obstacles and challenges Multiconsult and their partners faced building the DT, and what they learned from the process. Discover how digital twins can help you remotely monitor your facilities in near-real time and achieve your sustainability goals.

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Prototyping for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Prototypings that support asset and space management.

These days, you can use software like Revit MEP software, Dynamo, Python, Forge, and Insight360 to create highly detailed analytical simulation models as the basis for high-quality MEP planning. Frequently, however, the simulation results and operation profiles aren’t transferred to building operation, which leads to a significant performance gap. This industry talk will provide insight into the evolution of building performance simulations for practical use and as a basis for training AI-based HVAC controllers using pattern recognition—which will revolutionize the way building engineering is planned—in BIM2Field (building automation and building performance simulation) and in BIM2FM, using digital twins and linked IoT (Internet of Things).

Operations and maintenance costs account for 80% of building expenses. To drive efficiency, operators must bolster their preventive maintenance strategies and optimize workflows—but siloed, incomplete, and inaccurate data can compromise these efforts. This panel presents a promising vision for building and asset operators using recent worktech innovations to ensure a seamless digital handoff from design and construction to operations. By weaving together asset details from the building design phase with real-time performance information, the integration between Autodesk Tandem software and Eptura Asset equips operators with valuable insights to reduce downtime, avoid costly repairs and replacements, and significantly increase productivity. Sharing real-world examples and concrete ways to gain access and visibility to asset data across the full building lifecycle, panelists will explore the tangible benefits of digital twins to ensure better planning, decision making, and cost savings.

AREP is an international architecture firm providing complete services from programming to facilities management assistance. BIM offers a unique opportunity to work far upstream on the needed level of information for its integration into the digital model, allowing proper configuration of CMMS tools. AREP includes BIM specifications for facility management handover within its standard scope of services. This requirement of specifications also extends to existing buildings. We will present the results of experiments carried out on existing train stations (reverse-engineering) and new train stations that have enabled us to evaluate and quantify the gains expected for facilities management operations.