Construction is an inherently high-risk, low-margin business with countless opportunities for bad coordination, miscommunication, and disconnected processes. From initial design concepts to construction documentation, preconstruction to handover—many stakeholders, changes, and versions can overwhelm even the most organized and well-aligned teams. Eighty % expect to face added costs from design errors and omissions. Efficient project management can determine the winners in the market. Artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve construction project management effectiveness, especially in the early detection of project risks so they can be mitigated. AI can make the link between change orders, RFIs, and submittals back into the design phase. AI helps reduce the number of frivolous RFIs and wasteful change orders with the ultimate goal of better project performance. Hear from industry leaders about the application and value of machine learning in construction project management.

The BIM 360 Product Management Team will review the recent enhancements to the Project Management module and share priorities for our product road map. Learn about how BIM 360 software can help you create, manage, review, and monitor your RFIs and submittals throughout the project.

This class covers the use of Autodesk PLM 360 as project management software. We look at how to configure and use milestones, tasks, projects, and baselines. We also touch upon a use case that shows how to effectively tie project management features in PLM 360 software to your product data and how to manage releases effectively.

A large number of technology point solutions attempt to address project management workflows by providing tools for managing RFIs and submittals. Unfortunately, these tools can also create additional confusion by forcing teams to switch between apps, while increasing the potential for data loss and missed communications.   Join the BIM 360 product management team to explore the capabilities of BIM 360 Build in support of project management and project controls workflows, including the management of RFIs and Submittals. This session will cover how customers can customize BIM 360 to meet the contractual procedures, communication processes, and standards set for your projects. In addition, it will provide an update on the newest capabilities in the BIM 360 Project Management module.

This presentation will cover a set of tools that our team over at buildingSMART has been developing to aid our day-to-day project management efforts. We'll discuss how transitioning to a web-based application has helped us keep better track of our Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards and enforce better Revit model quality and practice. We'll talk about how using the power of web applications has empowered us to move away from desktop-based workflows and unify some of the standard "every project does this" practices under one roof. Managing Revit projects has never been easier.

This class will demonstrate how to get started with BIM 360 Project Management—set up your project, walk through entire RFIs and submittals workflows (submission, management, review, and distribution) and learn useful tips and tricks.

Every construction project team needs the right tools to support key workflows, including QA/QC, safety, RFIs, and cost and progress. Today, teams use a number of different tools and techniques to execute them. The risks of using various applications and processes for these are poor information access, lack of connectivity and collaboration between the office and the field, and tools that are built for either field workers on mobile devices or office workers on laptops. The vision of Construction Cloud is to enable connectivity across the project, and this session will provide an update on the future product road map for field and project management capabilities.

This class is designed for project management (PM) team in terms of managing the project during the design as well as construction phase, which is enhanced by BIM 360 software. Along with the intelligent models that are being developed widely in the construction industry today, design collaboration and coordination is one of the challenges for the PM team, especially projects with many designers in different locations. Managing several kinds of documents in the construction phase—such as RFI, submittals, inspections, reports, and so on—is also challenging the PM team without standardization and response-in-time procedure. However, all those challenges can be minimized. With BIM 360 and project case studies, this class will provide the method to set up BIM 360 as a common data environment for design collaboration and coordination using a couple of BIM 360 features and a customized workflow. Moreover, a digital procedure in this class with BIM 360 Build software will help a PM team in the standardizing and digitizing of site workflow on RFIs, transmittals management, site inspection, safety, QA and QC, reports and more.

The story of the 632-meter Shanghai Tower has been referred to worldwide many times, and now here is your chance to meet Mr. Ge Qing, the chief engineer of Shanghai Tower and to hear more about the best practices and experience sharing of lean project management from this super highrise and sustainable project. Facing complex skyscraper challenges from both technical and management perspectives, Shanghai Tower Construction & Development became the first owner to deploy a BIM whole lifecycle solution in China. By addressing multiple technologies and software coordination, all of the processes, information, and stakeholders have been integrated through BIM implementation to create higher efficiency, reduce risk, and increase profitability. This class covers aspects of BIM implementation, including the project challenges, strategy of BIM-based lean VDC management, all phases of BIM collaboration, and achievements and benefits for project economy, building management, and social meaning.

You need to strictly control project schedules to ensure the success of a project. Therefore, contractors need a simple, useful application that can also be accessed online in order to perform project management tasks with the intelligent model during the construction process. In this class, you will learn how to build a Forge application to visually manage project progress by utilizing intelligent models. The Forge platform consists of cloud-based developer tools from Autodesk. We will introduce Forge APIs by walking through some sample code demonstrations to help you gain access to your BIM (Building Information Modeling) data. Forge APIs also provide you with a way to manipulate and update more information in intelligent models in the cloud. If you are interested in learning Forge to innovate the way you work and make the best use of your data, then this class is for you.

BIM Management Careers is a course that explores the various career paths and opportunities available in the field of building information modeling (BIM) management. Join us as we cover the roles and responsibilities of BIM managers, as well as the technical skills, software knowledge, and project management skills required for success in this field.

Over the last decade the construction industry has been through a rapid pace of change, with the whole supply chain starting to digitize critical processes and workflows alongside the relentless use of emerging technologies across the jobsite. With new technology and innovative practices becoming the norm, what does the future of construction project management—and more importantly, the project manager—look like? This session will explore how digital processes are improving the way we work, walk through the upcoming technologies to be aware of, and examine how you can include these in your company road map to prepare for the future while not neglecting the need to provide scalable solutions to improve business outcomes today.

In this session, the LATAM TSE team will cover the basics of project management and lean construction principles for on-field tracking and data gathering in order to change the project management (PM) mindset from a reactive approach to proactive approach thanks to Autodesk Construction Cloud on-site implementation. We’ll cover how to digitize current construction workflows and activities without disruptive change within owner-contractor-subcontractor workflows. You’ll see how to apply PM and lean construction with an easy-to-implement approach, simplifying digital transformation for a width approach within any building information modeling (BIM) maturity level construction company.

Mesa Associates, Inc., is a full-service engineering, procurement, and construction management firm specializing in power, defense, aerospace, industrial, commercial, and municipal entities. Learn how Mesa met its project- and data-management challenges with a discussion on the selection, implementation, and launch of Vault Professional software. Listen to an industry leader discuss the use of Vault Professional software as a single source of management for document preparation/development, distribution/receipt, and coordination within a multioffice, multidiscipline engineering environment.

This class will focus on high-level workflows between BIM 360 Cost Management software and various, standard, industry enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages. We will also introduce the middlewares making these connections, and the importance of connecting project controls with construction ERPs.

A large number of technology point solutions attempt to address project management workflows by providing tools for managing RFIs and submittals. Unfortunately, these tools can also create additional confusion by forcing teams to switch between apps, while increasing the potential for data loss and missed communications. Join the BIM 360 product management team to explore the capabilities of BIM 360 Build in support of project management and project controls workflows, including the management of RFIs and Submittals. This session will cover how customers can customize BIM 360 to meet the contractual procedures, communication processes, and standards set for your projects. In addition, it will provide an update on the newest capabilities in the BIM 360 Project Management module.

Would you like to optimize project and design management? In this class, we’ll go through workflows and automated processes that enable us to track deliverables’ development progress and compare with schedule and budget more efficiently and accurately. We’ll work within the ISO 19650 framework and use some of the standards’ metrics in a set of dashboards to provide an overview of the sample project’s development. To analyze the data, it first gets exported from BIM 360 software and Revit files using Autodesk Forge software. All exported data, with schedule and budget, is imported into Microsoft Power BI. For contextualization, we also embed the Autodesk Forge Viewer into Microsoft Power BI, enabling us to dynamically switch between the project’s models and sheets corresponding to the data displayed on the dashboards. This approach to data and project management allows us to improve collaboration, enhance quality of deliverables, and reduce cost and risk. Throughout the course of two years, we predict saving $190,000 in one project alone.

This session will focus on how Egis benefits from easy and efficient infrastructure project data management with the Standardized Data Tool for Civil 3D extension. With the new IFC 4.3 format, already operational in Civil 3D, and the building information modeling (BIM) methodologies requirements growth, data management has never been more important. In a very competitive context, a high level of performance for property and data management is essential to maintain a position as a leader, win more projects, and increase ROI. We'll demonstrate how automation brought by Standardized Data Tool can power Civil 3D to the data management upper level and help implement efficient data management workflows. We will showcase how to implement an efficient infrastructure data management process. We'll illustrate how to manage property sets and synchronize extended data for several Civil 3D files, part of a unique project, and we'll perform customized checks and validation reports.

Project management for construction can be very challenging. It involves intensive coordination among teams and stakeholders throughout all project phases, from design review to project delivery. Efficient management of construction documents, such as drawings, designs, issues, RFIs, change orders, etc., is the key for project success. Research has shown that more than 50% of RFIs have a root cause in design issues and documentation error that could be solved by improving design review. In this session, we look at how a data driven approach can help project teams including VDC managers, project engineers, superintendents and project managers stay on top of critical high risk items and take action. We explore how technologies such as Construction IQ can leverage knowledge and past experience gained through mining tons of data and apply that to prioritize issues and RFIs, and group them into actionable categories for faster and more focused processing, with the ultimate goal of mitigating project risks and bettering project performance. Hear from AECOM and Danis Construction how they are connecting design to construction and their use of Construction IQ, and how it turns plain text into insights about project risk and makes the constructability review process and project management easier.