Aging infrastructure combined with limited funding and tightening regulations are causing great stress on water networks. Water assets are considered critical based on their likelihood and consequence of failure. The consequence of a critical pipe failure could lead to outages, severely disrupting daily activities and access to drinking water—in addition to the financial implications associated with property damage, road closures, and manufacturing disruptions. The path toward mitigating such risk starts with hydraulic modeling in conjunction with sound asset-management practices built into Info360 Asset software. In this session, we'll showcase InfoWorks WS Pro software's critical link analysis to automate criticality simulations, where areas of the network are isolated, and the corresponding level of service impacts are reported. Next, we'll make this data available in Info360 Asset to perform risk analysis, develop rehabilitation decision trees, and ultimately prioritize capital spending.

City of Oakland's sewer collection system has a total of 940 miles of pipeline, with an average service life of 50+ years. To maintain and improve the system and prevent costly failures, comprehensive asset management strategies have been needed. The City has augmented its sewer asset management using the Innovyze desktop software InfoAsset Planner, an Innovyze legacy asset management tool. Currently, Autodesk has been working with the City to transition to the cloud solution Info360 Asset due to improved multi-user functionality, expanded data sharing capabilities, and resilient data storage. In this presentation, City of Oakland will share its user experience and present the risk prioritization strategy developed with the help of its consultant team. The City and Autodesk will present how this strategy has been implemented in Info360 Asset, and explain how the product has improved the City's asset management efficiency.

Aqua America is a large water and sewer utility serving eight U.S. states. The utility faces the challenge of efficiently maximizing the management of aging infrastructure in more than 50 wastewater systems in Pennsylvania alone. In 2023, Aqua contracted GHD to implement a Consolidated Planning Level Sewer Program in Pennsylvania, addressing dispersed data sources of condition assessment data and best practices for capital improvement planning at the state, regional, and local levels. This presentation will address the obstacles encountered during the project, and showcase the integration of the Autodesk Info360 Asset and Esri ArcGIS Online cloud platforms to help Aqua efficiently manage significant volumes of closed-circuit TV (CCTV) inspection and other condition assessment data—along with tools to prioritize the riskiest assets, identify projected rehabilitation approaches, and establish capital improvement budgets.

Sewer pipelines are buried and out of sight. They are underinvested in and rapidly deteriorating. There are millions of miles of sewer pipelines that require monitoring to determine the condition and performance of this critical infrastructure. The principal method that utilities use involves closed-circuit television (CCTV) mounted video cameras on crawler units. Video and photographs of the insides of pipes are interpreted by engineers trained in the art of sewer pipeline defect recognition. This time-consuming and expensive process usually carried out in the field is increasingly being challenged by the use of AI and machine learning (ML) image detection and recognition techniques. See how the integration of Autodesk's Info360 Asset SaaS asset management product and VAPAR AI/ML tools will transform the assessment of sewer pipeline conditions, leading to huge cost and efficiency savings and productivity gains. Learn how these inspections are used to identify failure modes and determine the likelihood of failure and remaining life of assets.

The Virtual Record Environment (VRE) is an as-built project deliverable intended to connect macro to micro levels of information. The VRE provides campus context, access to building information in the 3D model with connected 2D sheets, and quick access to any asset within. Highlighting the connected workflows possible for a large health care organization, the VRE uses the BIM 360 environment. With the owner's request in mind, the VRE maintains the integrity of design and construction's digital activities within BIM 360 while also affording the compatibility between design platforms required throughout the project's lifecycle. The VRE workflow highlights the migration of building information (Revit software) across all disciplines, and highlights the importance of identifying assets of importance that should be integrated into the model environment. The VRE workflow includes Revit software, InfraWorks software for site mapping, BIM 360 Docs software for as-built model and sheet context, and BIM 360 Ops software for asset identification and data basing.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Revit software are big in design and construction, but if maintenance and asset management aren't part of the lifecycle data process, then are we really doing BIM? Or is it simply virtual design and construction? The most important component in the BIM process for maintenance and asset management is the facility model and its connection to an asset management system; it may also be the easiest element in the process to overlook. In this class we'll discuss the evolution of Denver International Airport's efforts to integrate their Revit software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, BIM 360 software, geographic information system (GIS), and Maximo Asset Management programs to create the Holy Grail of BIM—a single source of truth for facility data.

Connect Reality with BIM-ality! This class will showcase Matterport scanning as an effective visualization tool within BIM 360 Ops software. We will also explore creating links to model elements to the physical site, and we’ll review layout automation, data and information linking, and site access.

In this class, you'll see how BIM 360 is being utilised at the heart of the largest higher education build project in the UK with workflows through design, off-site manufacturing, and asset information capture through the power of barcodes. We are working with Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey, and to University of Manchester requirements, in a collaborative BIM-managed process to deliver and integrate true digital construction. See and learn how we are using the BIM 360 platform to manage collaborative design through Revit, Navisworks, and BIM 360 Glue. Through construction management with tagged assets we are driving increased quality and safety procedures on-site, and linking to off-site module construction for the M&E services.

With just over 2 years since the UK Government mandated BIM Level 2 adoption on publicly procured built assets, construction project teams have claimed successful collaboration outcomes during the design phase. Successful examples of real-life application of collaboration during the construction phase, at the conversion of the coordinated virtual project information models into asset information models, and more importantly the physical assets, are sparse at best. Having invested extensive resources to produce a coordinated model which supports quicker installation on sites, design teams can only quite rightly question the role played by Tier 1 contractors in BIM workflows as federated, data rich models stay 'dumped' on the common data environment, CDE never fulfilling the intended purpose. This study examines the BIM platforms and tools available on the market, and demonstrates how Tier 1 contractors in the UK have developed information and resource management structures that enable efficient data capture during the construction phase to facilitate seamless delivery of BIM Level 2 education project with COBie requirements. More specifically, the study demonstrates the seamless workflows using BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue on an educational project in the United Kingdom.

Autodesk’s CREFTS (Corporate Real Estate, Facilities, Travel, Safety, and Security) Project Team set out to deliver an all-electronic project handoff supplying the Facilities Operations Team with timely and specific information that they’d requested at project closeout. This class will describe the early steps taken during team engagement and development of the BIM execution plan to map a successful path to bring assets designed and developed in the model into BIM 360 Ops software in a useful way for the Facilities Operations Team. We will outline the steps taken, obstacles that were encountered, and how the project outcome helped shape a BIM 360 Ops project guidance document for future projects.

BECA has been recognized for engineering innovation and excellence in New Zealand following a gold medal win at the 2017 Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ) INNOVATE Awards. Sitting at the heart of Auckland, the Mason Bros. reconfigured heritage building offers an ultra-modern office space for commercial tenants. A new asset management solution now has the ability to take operations and maintenance into the Internet of Things. Using the latest mobile and cloud-based technology - including Autodesk applications BIM 360 Glue and Field - critical information created during construction was captured and handed over for asset management and operations. Upon completion of the project, all of the 3D models, assets and their data and documentation were pushed to Autodesk BIM360 Ops.

Brett Naylor, Group Manager - Digital Delivery, Beca

Brett has over 20 years of experience working within the design and construction industry. With a background in Architecture, he has been part of multi-disciplinary teams delivering capital projects across Aviation, Rail, Commercial, Education and Industrial sectors. Latterly in his career Brett has worked in the UK for a BIM Consultancy engaging with Facility Owners and Operators, Design Consultancies and Contractors to help them understand the benefits that BIM can bring to all stages of a project and how to best negotiate the transition to this new project delivery method. Brett now works for Beca as the Group Manager - Digital Delivery. He leads the implementation of BIM across the business and works with their clients to help define the information delivery requirements and delivery methods for their projects.

There is an increasing need for utilities in North America to collaborate with joint pole owners and tenants to keep the operating assets in compliance with local regulations. You will learn how California utilities are applying Autodesk® solutions to be compliant with GO-95 requirements. You will learn how the Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based product lifecycle management solution is a natural fit for collaboration, workflow, and secure information exchange between utilities, communication providers, and their tenants. We will show how you can better collaborate with your joint pole owners and how this cloud-based technology can enable overhead engineering and ensure that the pole is loaded correctly.

Building information modeling (BIM) processes with federated 3D models and centralized common data environments (CDEs) are well-accepted norms in project delivery. Yet, the benefits derived from this digitalization favor the engineering companies over the manufacturing owner. Moreover, the owner's transformation focus is mostly on digitizing highly regulated drug releases and manufacturing performance. Converging these two digital approaches is not often seen as a priority. Yet, it may be a foundational step toward a successful digital transformation for businesses and their people. We’ll make the case for data convergence between digital assets (descriptive digital twins) and manufacturing data and analytics to solve business problems, like accessing the right information and documentation without time loss. We’ll share how the human-centered approach made visible the foundational benefit of BIM by linking objects to information using BIM 360 (collaborate) and data fusion technologies, and which KPIs can demonstrate value.

Service disruptions are inevitable regardless of your water source, and they often result in chaos for operators, administrators, and residents. Even as communities move toward more proactive water system management, unanticipated disruptions will always occur. Utilities should be as prepared as possible to respond quickly and effectively. This presentation will explore the innovative ways the City of Livonia, located outside Detroit, is planning for and exploring potential water service disruption scenarios with hydraulic modeling through InfoWater Pro and ArcGIS Dashboards. With aging assets the city has experienced increasingly severe water system failures. Susan Knepper (OHM Advisors) will share the tools and practices she used to help the city plan for its water service disruptions, and she’ll cover the creative way she documented the city’s disruption protocols. Tim Medearis (Autodesk) will briefly share how Info360 can make this workflow even easier in the future.

Hazen has a strong vision for digital twin technology in the Water industry and we have multiple projects and clients where we are pushing this narrative. From HRSD SWIFT Research Facility with Revit and GeoBIM integration, to Aurora Water BIM-based digital twin project using Autodesk Tandem, and several other large greenfield projects where Hazen is using ACC Design, Build, and Operate solutions. We focus heavily on asset management and operational user cases with high impact and credible visuals, client feedback, and clear values. This also includes our virtual digital twin in Tandem that uses Postman to stream SCADA-type data to Tandem Connect and Tandem Streams to show the future of Tandem, and Info360 Plant for process modeling and analysis for a new greenfield project integrated with Tandem and all things ACC. We will tell the story of why Hazen is putting our name out there for these Autodesk tools and demonstrate why we feel they are important to the future of protecting water.

Hazen has a strong vision for digital twin technology in the Water industry and we have multiple projects and clients where we are pushing this narrative. From HRSD SWIFT Research Facility with Revit and GeoBIM integration, to Aurora Water BIM-based digital twin project using Autodesk Tandem, and several other large greenfield projects where Hazen is using ACC Design, Build, and Operate solutions. We focus heavily on asset management and operational user cases with high impact and credible visuals, client feedback, and clear values. This also includes our virtual digital twin in Tandem that uses Postman to stream SCADA-type data to Tandem Connect and Tandem Streams to show the future of Tandem, and Info360 Plant for process modeling and analysis for a new greenfield project integrated with Tandem and all things ACC. We will tell the story of why Hazen is putting our name out there for these Autodesk tools and demonstrate why we feel they are important to the future of protecting water.

We can now use operational digital twins to apply the past, present, and future conditions at the level of the asset to solve key problems and meet objectives for water networks and plants. With Autodesk's Info360 platform, trust in these systems has reached a point where simulated predictive "what-if" scenarios actively support responses to planned and emerging incidents with real-time artificial intelligence (AI) recommendations informing the optimization of networks and plants. The technological focus of this industry talk will be on operational digital-twin use cases. With a goal to reduce water loss to 10% by 2030, Water Corporation of Western Australia uses data-driven models to understand pressure and flow management with live physics-based models for pressure optimization. North American utility's water treatment plant optimizes chemical costs while maintaining compliance with predictive AI, achieving a 13% savings (US$170,000) in ferric costs while meeting turbidity discharge compliance limits.

During the delivery of School Bundle 4, BAM executed this aspect of work through BIM 360 Field software and BIM 360 Glue software. The right people captured all relevant asset information on mobile devices at the right time. Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) was used throughout this process as a way of creating clean, compliant, and standardized data. The COBie data set was progressively enhanced throughout the construction delivery phase. This data set is associated with Building Information Modeling (BIM) objects, and coupled with all other data capture, through BIM 360 Field software, it meant that BAM had a complete data set at project completion stage. BAM facilities management (FM) provided clear guidance as to their asset information needs and ensured no time was wasted in the production of irrelevant asset information. The link formed between Building Ops software and BIM 360 Field software is bi-directional and seamless. The now fully developed asset information model (AIM) is central to the Building Ops software Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) system. All reactive and preventative actions are linked through the AIM. This session features Building Ops, BIM 360 Field, and Revit. AIA Approved

Construction teams need an experience that lets an asset, such as equipment, and its data flow seamlessly from design to handover and operations. This class will explore how to use BIM 360 software as a means for tracking key milestones in the asset lifespan—from design and fabrication, to delivery, installation, commissioning, and, ultimately, handover. This class will also explore workflows around building commissioning and creating repositories for asset-related documentation, including product information such as cut sheets and warranty documents—as well as links to checklists, RFIs, submittals, and other workflows related to the asset. See how to use the BIM 360 platform to provide integrations with various workflows throughout an asset's life.