The Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) of Victoria, Australia, is delivering a major digital transformation program to manage the transport infrastructure of a state where 6+ million people live. With more than $100 billion in transport infrastructure projects in development through 180+ major projects and with 20,000+ people in jobs, the DTP needed to implement digital engineering standards, processes, and technologies to effectively and securely manage the asset lifecycle from planning to operation and maintenance. This program aims to enhance efficiency through better collaboration and flow of information throughout the project lifecycle. The DTP will present its current digital engineering and digital asset information management initiatives. The session will focus on the road map for streamlining building information modeling (BIM) standards, workflows, and technologies associated with the digital delivery process, and how Autodesk, Esri, and IBM Maximo helped the department better align its processes with technology.

ECOFACT is a €12 million Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing an ECO-innovative energy FACTory management platform for four demo sites: Arçelik (white goods industry), Athenian Brewery (Heineken brewing company), Gullón (biscuit factory) and Tofaş (a body painting plant of Stellantis vehicles). This platform features a dashboard that includes an LCA/LCCA module based on SimaPro and an Energy and Resource Management System (ERMS) built on Autodesk Platform Services. The ERMS consists of a Digital Twin Platform (DTP) that combines industrial digital twin models of production lines and machines with simulation and optimization tools into a single web environment. Using an advanced IIoT infrastructure, each digital twin streams real-time field data to ensure user-friendly monitoring. Managers and operators can run simulation and optimization applications integrated into the DTP for improved factory management in terms of energy, resources, and costs.

Curious about the road ahead for Autodesk's product and service offerings for infrastructure design and engineering? Join Autodesk product and strategy managers for Civil 3D, InfraWorks, ReCap and Collaboration for Civil 3D to learn about new features and functionality supporting the capabilities and workflows you need to drive more-efficient, more-sustainable, and more-collaborative infrastructure design and construction projects. Learn about the strategic insights and decisions driving development directions, and see early demonstrations of features and workflows yet to be released. Peer into the future of the products you use every day, and engage with Autodesk to help shape those products to better meet your needs and the needs of your company, project teams, and clients.

How do you design a factory while missing key data about the machines you intend to install? How do you ensure a reliable, scalable flow of information across disciplinary boundaries, enabling true, trusted, and fast-paced collaboration? Making the world's greenest batteries on an industrial scale requires a new approach to factory design. Concurrently working on several multibillion-dollar gigafactory projects, Northvolt's central Factory Design Team uses an integrated factory design toolbox with its heart in the Autodesk ecosystem. However, a key component has until recently been missing: efficient, cross-disciplinary, and scalable data management. This session will tell the story of how Northvolt's Factory Design Team has established a dynamic data-management infrastructure, how conventional data silos are torn down, and how true design collaboration between manufacturing design and construction design can be achieved with scalability, modularization, and speed at its core.

The architecture, engineering, and construction industry has a long history of using 3D tools for design and planning. Such tools are built for handling large quantities of data, but tend to focus more on physical accuracy than visual fidelity. While new tools are emerging to visualize projects in high-quality 3D before they're built, they're typically solutions that can't easily be extended to work with all the new technologies driving innovation in the video game industry. In this session, we'll cover techniques we've developed for rendering large architectural and infrastructure environments in real time. We'll discuss the challenge of importing these models into the Unity gaming engine, as well as the opportunities it affords in terms of improving fidelity, adding interactivity, and building for multiple platforms, including virtual reality (VR). We'll also discuss practical applications for these techniques, such as multi-user review sessions, public feedback gathering, and interactive training building.

This class will take you through Buro Happold's successful experience of integrating Autodesk Construction Cloud technology for Civil 3D software across a global engineering practice. Autodesk Construction Cloud technology has only been available for Civil 3D users for a little more than a year, so if you're interested in increasing your company's efficiency, streamlining workflows, and improving team connectivity, this is the class for you. The session will cover topics such as investment, training, rollout strategy, troubleshooting, collaboration workflows, and ROI outcomes. We'll also explore how Autodesk Construction Cloud helped us achieve an 80%–90% increase in model opening times, reduce hardware infrastructure costs by up to 70%, and increase collaboration on projects by up to 50%.

The global market for computing power is increasing exponentially, and the biggest challenge the industry faces is how to deliver the required physical infrastructure fast enough to keep up. For data center owners and operators—many of whom are the largest companies in the world—it is a strategic imperative that they find new ways to accelerate how they plan, design, construct, operate, and optimize their data center facilities. Autodesk provides a range of products that owners and operators can use to help meet these objectives, but they're rarely used in a fully integrated manner throughout the life of a data center. In this session, Gafcon Digital (an Accenture company) will demonstrate how Autodesk products are being deployed on behalf of data center owners and operators for a variety of processes throughout the lives of their facilities, showcasing the use of Autodesk applications (such as Revit software, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Tandem software) and platforms.

Join us on an enlightening journey as Khatib & Alami explore the boundless potential of integrating building information modeling (BIM) with geographic information system (GIS). The collaboration between Autodesk and Esri has streamlined the integration process, and delivered tailored solutions to meet the evolving needs of global enterprises. Throughout this engaging session, participants will gain invaluable insights into optimizing workflows and the numerous use cases that open up once the floodgates of data interoperability are open. We'll equip you with the best strategies to use the combined power of BIM for buildings and infrastructures and GIS for districts and cities. Our focus on seamless integration of BIM and GIS data has yielded substantial benefits, facilitating effective communication and innovative applications for stakeholders throughout the spectrum of operations and asset management, and ensuring designs alignment with site conditions.

The integration of Autodesk Forma software, Revit software, and InfraWorks software provides a powerful suite of tools for urban-scale design planning and analysis. The bidirectional workflows between Forma and Revit enable seamless transitions from conceptual design and analysis to detailed modeling. Simultaneously, the integration with InfraWorks allows these designs to be incorporated into a broader environmental context, including infrastructure engineering. This synergy empowers architects, planners, and civil engineers to optimize early design phases, ensuring innovative and feasible projects. By using each software's strengths, professionals can swiftly create study models that are easily updated and shared across teams. Furthermore, the ability to compare different options within Forma and InfraWorks ensures continuous improvement and efficiency in the design process. This collaborative ecosystem not only streamlines workflows, but it also enhances the quality of urban design and infrastructure projects.

A new metro Line, with 19 kilometers and encompassing 15 stations, a maintenance yard, and 2 primary substations, represents a landmark achievement in utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM). A large-scale infrastructure project has set a new benchmark for the industry by implementing a comprehensive BIM (Building Information Modeling) approach, encompassing all disciplines, including geotechnical engineering and laser scanning for connection stations with existing lines. The project has also standardized data using IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) and introduced a new standard for contractual items, including a new contractual measurement method. Automated analyses have been integrated into robotic processes, and a train dynamic models to ensure equipment installations has been utilized and with data management. These innovations have significantly enhanced project quality and established the project as a national reference.

This course will present a series of "how to" and "how come" case studies on using Forma to expand contextual understanding of architectural design. Where Revit excels at designing with the building envelop in, Forma excels at connecting building design to a broader context. Specifically, this is where working with Forma opens a new mode of architectural exploration with an emphasis on outcome-based design thinking. Forma allows the construction and analysis of a series of complex site-based issues: topography and existing conditions, environmental factors, infrastructure, and geographic data (GIS). This is then combined with multiple design proposals to study impact on energy, accessibility and circulation, embodied carbon, and the visceral connection between the building and site that can only be resolved through iterative, simulated explorations.

Join us as we explore the heart of rail alignment design. Turnouts are not just critical components of heavy rail; they also form the backbone of all rail projects, including light rail, metro, and high-speed rail systems. Our session is designed to empower you with the necessary skills to create your configuration file for turnout creation in Civil 3D software. Moreover, we'll guide you through the process of translating your geometrical requirements into a comprehensive turnout catalog. This presentation is your ticket to mastering the dynamics of rail alignment design, challenging conventions, and setting new standards in railway infrastructure.

This session will explain the latest volcanic episodes in Iceland—a constant threat to nearby town and infrastructure in the Reykjanes Peninsula. In November 2023, the 4,000-person town of Grindavík was evacuated. Working in close cooperation with the Civil Protection of Iceland, Verkís designed and managed the construction of lava diversion barriers to protect the 225 MW geothermal power plants at Svartsengi, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, and Grindavík. HEC-RAS was used to model lava flows using the latest topographical drone mapping of the surface and fresh lava. The barriers were designed and modeled in Civil 3D software, and Autodesk Construction Cloud was used to communicate design and stakeout data to multiple contractors. This study will show how the barrier design was optimized during the volcanic eruption by comparing theoretical models against actual lava flow behavior. Now 11 km of massive lava barriers have been built, which worked successfully against the lava flow and saved the town of Grindavík.

As urban areas expand, the challenge is clear: evolve into sustainable and inclusive environments or risk growing disparities and instability. Many of the challenges we are trying to overcome are inherently spatial, so we must first understand their immediate surroundings in order to bring solutions to the table. Urban & Infrastructure projects should be able to collect and manage data to identify needs and prioritize them. Through the integration of BIM and GIS, we can adopt a geographic and holistic approach to overcome the challenges ahead of us by enabling the project to be visualized and assessed in that real-world context allowing professionals to enhance project understanding. In this talk, you will learn how to implement GIS (Geographic Information Systems) interoperability with BIM (Building Information Modeling) in early-stage planning to create inclusive and welcoming cities.

Join us on an interesting journey through time! For 10 years, Royal HaskoningDHV has used InfraWorks software to transform projects into vivid models. Multidisciplinary projects—bridges, viaducts, (bored) tunnels, and more! Our journey also recaps rural projects, where the underground infrastructure is made visible (pipe networks and utilities). With InfraWorks, we didn't just build structures; we built bridges with our clients and stakeholders. 3D Insights united the entire project team. And early error detection saved construction costs! Some projects have already risen from the ground. Now, we're putting them to the ultimate test. The InfraWorks model stands as our mirror to reflect the blueprint with the build design. Don't miss this class where innovation meets infrastructure!

ITC Limited has developed a diverse range of infrastructure across various asset classes. However, the company recognized the need to improve project management by making outcomes more predictable. To achieve this, ITC looked toward digitalization and a cultural shift by embracing new technologies. The goals included enhancing data accessibility, incorporating building information modeling (BIM), improving digital maturity, and reducing regimental processes. With the help of Autodesk Construction Cloud, establishing a common data environment (CDE) was straightforward, enabling traceable and accountable automated workflows essential for ISO 19650 compliance. This led to the project receiving the Kitemark certification, marking it as the first in India and fourth globally to achieve "Project Kitemark certification." This achievement underscores ITC's successful digital transformation, improving information management, document standardization, workflow automation, and information exchange ecosystems.

Do you have a requirement to deliver IFC 4.3 on your infrastructure project but you're not sure where to begin? Confused as to what's possible with IFC 4.3? Unsure how to map Civil 3D objects to IFC 4.3? Since the release of IFC 4.3 for infrastructure, many users are unsure of how to implement IFC into their daily workflows and project deliveries. This class will detail exactly how you can implement IFC 4.3 into linear infrastructure workflows to take full advantage of openBIM for infrastructure and the vastly improved IFC 4.3 schema. This session will demonstrate how to configure the IFC 4.3 Extension for Civil 3D software the right way to map a wide range of Civil 3D objects to IFC 4.3, enabling seamless export and import. We'll discover how to improve interoperability between Civil 3D and Revit software by using IFC 4.3, all while discovering top tips and real-world use cases for working with IFC 4.3 in Civil 3D.

In the face of climate change, designing infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather events and rising sea levels is paramount, and traditional approaches often lack the tools to evaluate an ever-growing array of parameters. On top of that, planning on a 20- or even 10-year horizon is getting increasingly difficult, and it might not make sense altogether, for exponential change escapes our ability to foresee it. Exit planning, enter improvisation. This lecture will explore the concept of organizational improvisation and LEGO® Serious Play (LSP) as a powerful tool for designing climate-resilient infrastructure. By providing real-life examples and constructing scenarios with the class, we'll focus on how agility, creativity, and collaboration can enhance an organization's ability to respond to evolving environmental challenges. Join us to learn how LSP enables stakeholders to explore complex problems, co-create solutions, and envision resilient futures.

Hatch, a global engineering consulting firm, excels in creating robust parametric models for infrastructure, mining, and energy projects. Our extensive experience has taught us what works and what doesn't. In this session, we'll guide you through Autodesk's new Informed Design tool for Inventor software, using our expertise to ensure your success. Whether you're an Inventor expert or just starting out, our approach to parametric modeling for Informed Design is accessible and effective. Join us as we explore the steps to create rich and efficient models, empowering you to optimize reusability, automate processes, manage quantities, and streamline BOMs. Let's unlock the potential of parametric models together!