Autodesk stands out as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025

• Autodesk recognized as one of Fast Company’s 2025 Most Innovative Companies.
• Total Carbon Analysis for Architects, including Embodied Carbon Analysis in Autodesk Forma and Autodesk Insight in Revit, honored as #4 in the Architecture category.
• Hear about the impact of these tools from three leaders across the industry.

Autodesk honored by Fast Company as a 2025 Most Innovative Company in Architecture

Today, I am proud to share that Autodesk has been recognized as one of the “Most Innovative Companies 2025” by Fast Company. The award lists Autodesk at #4 in the Architecture category for the ground-breaking carbon analysis tools available in Autodesk’s architecture, engineering, and construction portfolio. Launched last spring, Total Carbon Analysis for Architects reflects our mission to empower everyone to design and make anything while addressing critical global challenges, such as climate change.

Let me first explain a bit about the carbon impact of the built environment. Any built structure has two types of associated carbon emissions: embodied and operational carbon. Embodied carbon in the context of the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry refers to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere during the up-front activities necessary to construct or renovate buildings and infrastructure. Operational carbon is the carbon-equivalent emissions associated with the building’s operation phase, including heating, cooling, lighting, and power.

It is crucial to establish a proactive action plan for managing both embodied and operational carbon emissions early in the design process to reduce the overall environmental impact of a project. In fact, a report by RMI showed that it was possible to reduce up-front embodied carbon between 19% and 46% for little to no cost on common types of buildings. But accurate carbon emissions data is only available for less than 1% of all the new buildings created across the world.

To help architects with these carbon calculations, we introduced Embodied Carbon Analysis in Autodesk Forma and the next generation of Autodesk Insight in Revit. Together, these tools make up Total Carbon Analysis for Architects and give building designers the ability to track the carbon footprint of buildings from planning through detailed design. By providing intuitive dashboards to evaluate the trade-offs between embodied and operational carbon, these tools empower the industry to reduce the built environment’s carbon footprint.

Autodesk Forma is a cloud software that offers powerful, yet easy-to-use AI-enabled tools to architects and designers working in pre-design and schematic design.

The Embodied Carbon Analysis in Autodesk Forma leverages Autodesk AI and was realized through collaboration with C.Scale, who built the early-stage carbon prediction engine. The capability helps architects understand and test the carbon impact of their design decisions during the initial planning phases. This early-stage analysis is crucial because it’s during the initial planning phases that decisions about building form, structure, and primary materials are made, which have the highest impact on embodied carbon associated with construction activities.

Learn more about Embodied Carbon Analysis

As architects move into the detailed design process, Autodesk Insight, integrated with Revit, provides flexible dashboards and a user-friendly interface for exploring, visualizing, and comparing carbon analysis results. Insight helps measure and visualize the effects of integrated building systems, enabling architects to optimize for embodied carbon, operational carbon, and sustainability.

Learn more about Insight in Revit

Our carbon analysis portfolio gives building designers the ability to track the carbon footprint of buildings from planning through detailed design.

With these offerings, we are helping our customers consider carbon costs from the earliest stages of their projects, where the potential for reducing emissions is greatest. These tools are crucial steps in our mission to support sustainable building practices, and we’re proud to help the AECO industry reduce its carbon footprint.

To join me in celebrating this recognition, I’ve invited three industry leaders to share their thoughts on the impact of these offerings:

Our partners at C.Scale

“The real power of C.Scale’s integration with Autodesk Forma is that it puts accurate carbon data in context with other design data. Now architects can see multiple data streams coming together and use carbon as a lens through which they can make early-phase design decisions. For example, architects can now see the carbon impact of their design if they specify lower carbon concrete or if the wood from their building came from climate-smart forestry practices. With Forma, we’re bringing this data-driven decarbonization pathway to every project, by every team, everywhere. Because it can’t just be the best or the greenest firms doing this.”

– Jack Rusk, Co-founder, C.Scale

Our customer at Lake|Flato

“Integrating the Embodied Carbon tool in Forma from early urban planning through schematic design and beyond allows for a highly democratized approach to sustainable design for many design professionals. As an inaugural signatory of the AIA 2030 Challenge, Lake|Flato is committed to reducing carbon emissions across all projects. Using Forma, alongside the next-generation Autodesk Total Carbon workflow, enhances our ability to track and report embodied carbon seamlessly, ensuring our sustainability goals are met with greater efficiency and impact.”

-Dan Stine, Director of Design Technology, Lake|Flato

Our sustainability leader at Autodesk

“The impacts of climate change are accelerating, and we need tools that address both the need to reduce carbon emissions and increases resiliency in the built environment. Autodesk is honored to be recognized for Total Carbon Analysis, because we know that by helping our customers create a more sustainable planning and design process, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an industry that needs to decarbonize. Sustainability is a team sport, and Autodesk continues to work with our customers and ecosystem of partners to identify innovative ways to unlock data and break down the barriers to a more sustainable future.”

-Joe Speicher, Chief Sustainability Officer

As we celebrate this recognition from Fast Company, we remain committed to supporting global efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2030. The built environment plays a crucial role in this challenge, and Autodesk is dedicated to providing the tools and insights needed to make a positive impact. Thank you to everyone at Autodesk who worked on these tools, and our partners for their support and collaboration!