Project teams globally continue to have challenges with the workflows related to rooms and spaces between trades. "The architect messed up the rooms I was using” is something commonly murmured in the corridors of the MEP engineer's office. In this session, we'll discuss and demonstrate some room-to-space workflows between trades, and we'll discuss how to more effectively deal with change management that occurs.

Join us for a dynamic and interactive AU 2024 panel discussion, where leading infrastructure experts in geospatial information systems (GIS) will converge to explore the transformative impact that GIS has on built-world projects. This session aims to foster a deep dialogue between our panel of seasoned professionals and the audience. Together, we will navigate the evolving landscape of infrastructure development, focusing on how GIS technologies drive efficiency, sustainability, and innovation in this critical sector. Expect a lively exchange of ideas, experiences, and insights as we collectively tackle the most-pressing topics and challenges facing infrastructure professionals today. Whether you're a project manager, engineer, planner, or GIS specialist, this panel will provide valuable perspectives on using geospatial intelligence for infrastructure excellence.

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.

This panel will explore the ways in which owners, or owner representatives, collaborate with design teams while simultaneously in active construction. We will discuss how the design-build approach is executed to provide a quality and sustainable product while exploring how we navigate through coordination and oversight to provide a single source of truth. This panel will also explore the ways in which we use Autodesk to manage projects with readily available information and real-time field data.

Effective model coordination is key to the success of major water treatment plant projects. It promotes design harmony and team synergy across various disciplines. This session will explore the complexities of synchronizing intricate intelligent models. Discover powerful methods and workflows for integrating intelligent models with tools like Revit, Civil 3D, Navisworks, and Autodesk Tandem software. We'll cover actionable tactics to refine coordination via Autodesk Construction Cloud, report generation, and sharing. Learn about clash detection and issue resolution in Revit and Navisworks using practical examples, enhancing your coordination skills with Autodesk Construction Cloud. Additionally, we'll examine the role AI and automation plays in the streamlining of these processes.

Join us for a dynamic exploration of digital-twin implementation across diverse industry verticals—including airports, hospitals, metros, and office buildings. In this session, our speakers will unveil the tailored workflows that have driven successful digital-twin projects worldwide. We'll delve into the critical first step of identifying major challenges that asset owners face, guided by the 80-20 rule to prioritize efforts that yield the most-significant impact. Discover how the nuances of each vertical shapes our approach, and learn why creating and maintaining digital twins is a progressive journey. While perfection in data collection may not be immediate, strategic planning, recognizing pivotal challenges, and setting clear milestones pave the way for long-term success. Whether you're starting out or scaling up, this talk will equip you with insights to navigate the complexities of digital twins effectively.

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.

Can a digital twin help preserve one of the nation's preeminent Victorian civic structures? Quinn Evans, the 2024 AIA Architecture Firm Award recipient, specializes in the preservation of historic buildings, empowering its clients to harness a wealth of data—from historical records to maintenance and operational insights. Employing historic building information management (HBIM) alongside scan-to-BIM-to-twin workflows, Quinn Evans has pioneered a method to merge past data with current information. Working with the Michigan State Capitol, the firm has applied this approach to more efficiently, effectively, and sustainably manage and maintain the Capitol, including more than nine acres of historic finishes, all while serving the state legislative body and general public. Learn how Quinn Evans is giving the Michigan State Capitol the keys to avoid potential disasters, a proper historical catalog, and unique insights through data and digital twins.

Researchers and facility managers at the University of Florida collaborated on implementing Autodesk Tandem software in facilities and asset management (FAM) operations with the goal of understanding how digital twins (DTs) can improve operational efficiency, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance preventative maintenance. Get an in-depth understanding of how we flawlessly integrated sensor and actuator device data using an academic building's Revit model in Tandem to create a DT that monitors facility performance in real time. Explore the benefits that facility managers gain from incorporating operations and maintenance manuals, cut sheets, wayfinding capabilities, and system tracing into DTs, as well as visualizing their occupancy rates and usage. Implemented effectively, DTs can yield significant ROI by fostering efficiency, spurring innovation, and providing a competitive edge. Future plans include creating a campusverse of DTs, using FAM data to transition to cognitive DTs, and using DTs in the formulation of a comprehensive campus FAM strategy.

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.

El Corte Inglés, Spain's largest department store chain and one of the biggest real estate owners in Europe, has digitized 3,7M+ sqm of their portfolio. Point clouds, Revit and ACC were the main tools used. This session will show the process and learnings of this experience and the improvements made after two years of continued efforts. They include a content library on Unifi to manage 21.000+ families widely used across 100+ assets' models, establishing a BIM office that uses Docs, Design Collaboration and Model Coordination to review and validate models, and devising strategies to bring models from previous stages up to the latest standards. Beyond digitization efforts, the session will also present how the models are being put to use for many purposes and their applications for even more: store renovation projects, quantities extraction and cost control, fittings capacity control studies, area related applications, construction stage… as well as the technologies for each of them.

A "digital thread" is an emerging concept in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry, representing the shift toward using digital workflows to track assets through their full lifecycles. There's a growing recognition that improved data sharing and collaboration are becoming increasingly vital as the building industry confronts new efficiency and sustainability challenges. But how can we achieve this? What practical steps can we take to facilitate it? Learn how to start your digital thread journey through this discussion with a panel of industry experts with backgrounds spanning facilities, geographic information systems (GIS), and technology. Walk away with new ideas you can implement today to build a more connected information thread across your facilities.

One Team leads the development of the Digital Building Logbook (DBL) in the context of Horizon Europe's BuildON project. Serving as a centralized repository, it aids the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry's journey toward climate neutrality and a more circular economy. The DBL captures diverse building data, from general details, administrative records, construction data, and energy performance metrics to operational information and smart building data—collected throughout the building's lifespan. This effort aims to streamline the organization of diverse data types and address challenges related to disconnected data. Using the AEC Data Model API, the DBL will enable efficient data queries and powerful search capabilities to extract rich data from models without the need of authoring tools, effectively mitigating disconnected data issues common in the AEC industry. The DBL enhances user experience by breaking down data for various user personas across the building's lifecycle.

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.

Discover how multibillion-dollar conglomerates navigate collaboration challenges between manufacturing and architecture, engineering, and construction sectors. Traditionally bound by constraints of limited interoperability and manual exchanges, these industry leaders now embrace Autodesk's cloud-based Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, ushering in a new era of streamlined processes. Explore the fascinating journey of digitizing design and commissioning processes, starting with local Vault for Inventor. Witness seamless synchronization with Autodesk Docs software, model transfers to Revit software via Factory Design Utilities software, coordination in Navisworks software, and collaboration in the Autodesk Construction Cloud Design Collaboration module. See firsthand how this new workflow improves collaboration from start to finish, changing the way manufacturing works

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.

As a İstanbul Metro, we integrate data from SCADA and energy management systems with digital twins. With our digital-twin project, we save time spent on maintenance. We also save on costs by providing analysis on high energy consumption values. We used Autodesk Tandem software to create the digital-twin platform. Using the digital-twin project, we use intelligent models effectively in our operational processes. Through digital twins, we gain efficiency of up to 37.5% and cost savings of up to 25% in operation and maintenance processes.

This session will unveil an innovative approach to creating intelligent models by converging reality capture, IoT integration, and facility operations management within Autodesk Tandem software. We'll demonstrate capturing site progress with 360-degree photo documentation and precisely aligning it with intelligent models created from laser scans in Revit software. You'll see how we've integrated real-time environmental data from IoT sensors via MQTT and consolidated facility management workflows, including people-tracking analytics, on a unified dashboard. By combining these technologies, operations teams gain unprecedented visibility into project status, building performance, and occupant patterns. Explore using this cohesive solution to enhance asset operations, drive sustainability, and create superior user experiences across diverse built environments. Attendees will learn strategies for implementing reality capture, IoT integration, and smart facility management to elevate their building insights.

The majority of the world is no longer nomadic—we occupy space within a built environment. Rooms (the spaces we occupy) shape the way we design, manage, and optimize our non-nomadic world. The potential for rooms within a digital twin extends far beyond mere spatial boundaries. Digital twin rooms offer the potential to unlock new insights into the use, performance, and optimization within our buildings and beyond. In this presentation, we'll explore the significance of rooms as essential assets, and the importance of accurately representing rooms within the multidimensional world of a digital twin. To top it off, we'll examine how Autodesk Tandem software enables real-time monitoring and analysis of room use, occupancy patterns, and environmental conditions. By using this wealth of data, stakeholders can make informed decisions and plan for future needs based on reliable data related to overall space use, as well as enhance occupant experience and improve energy efficiency.

In this class, we'll explore the importance of a digital-twin strategy, discuss strategic takeaways, and demonstrate how we used Autodesk Tandem software to realize a digital twin for risk reduction during a construction project. Digital twin technology is a vital solution for BAM and its clients, helping to address societal challenges and accelerate the execution with digital solutions. Recognizing the diversity of our projects, we've developed a digital-twin strategy to unify our vision and approach. This strategy, along with proof of concepts with Tandem, offers a clear understanding of the digital twin for BAM, and details its benefits for BAM and its employees, partners, and clients. This has helped BAM to further enhance its organizational readiness for digital-twin deployment, enhanced understanding of digital-twin technology, and increased market competitiveness. Join us to discover how to strategically incorporate and test digital twins into your operations for a future-ready approach.