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Tangled technology and processes have tied the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry into an extremely intricate and complicated knot.
Pull at the project schedule thread, and the timeline tightens. Pull at the supply chain thread, and cost seizes up. Loose threads of disconnected data between each project stage cause delays, rework, and waste.
It’s time to untie the knot and fundamentally change how we design and make the built environment.
With Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform, we’re creating a cloud-connected environment where artificial intelligence (AI) can help you glean the most from your project data, so you can make decisions early, collaboratively, and confidently. As data flows from design to construction to operations, a centralized industry cloud for AECO will bolster collaboration and enable new ways of working.
We’re excited to share how these advances come together at Autodesk University (AU) 2023.
We see AI as a tool that empowers humans to be more creative and do more meaningful work. It can automate processes, analyze data, and augment project teams’ current approach to exploration and problem solving, providing insights that cut through the noise and uncover new solutions. It can automate mundane processes that drag down creativity and enable outcome-driven design.
The Autodesk AI journey began a decade ago. Since then, we’ve developed various AI capabilities that are used today across our AECO solutions.
Today, we unveiled two updates that incorporate AI and machine-learning (ML) capabilities to improve efficiencies for customers designing drainage systems and managing water:
In May, we launched Autodesk Forma with a suite of AI-powered predictive analyses that enable fast, fluid iterations at the earliest stages of the planning and design process, when you can have the greatest impact on outcomes. Rapid Noise Analysis and Rapid Wind Analysis predict noise and wind conditions to give designers an indication of how a building will be affected by its surroundings. And Rapid Operational Energy Analysis allows designers to see how changes to interrelated factors such as a building’s geometry, window-to-wall ratio, and roof and wall construction types affect the building’s predicted energy use.
AI is also helping to automate the manual work of drafting. In AutoCAD 2024, Markup Assist uses ML to automatically update existing drawing text, convert shapes into AutoCAD objects, and execute markup instructions. And Smart Blocks Replacement helps to quickly find the blocks you need by providing ML-powered suggestions when replacing a block.
Additionally, teams further downstream in the building lifecycle may already be familiar with Construction IQ, Autodesk’s first prediction-based AI capability in construction. Part of Autodesk Construction Cloud, Construction IQ analyzes issues, observations, checklists, subcontractor assignments, and more to help construction teams identify a wide variety of risk factors, helping to make workers safer and more productive on the jobsite.
Earlier this year, we added another AI-based capability to Autodesk Construction Cloud, AutoSpecs in ACC, which automates submittal log generation. Leveraging ML, it creates submittal logs from PDF spec books in minutes—a process that can traditionally take weeks. With AutoSpecs’ Suggested Submittals, teams can leverage AI to identify missing submittal items before they become costly errors.
AI is built into many of our assistive workflows, from preconstruction and construction management to operations. This includes bid management and qualification, quantification and estimating, document management, project management, and quality and safety. For our construction solutions, AI is integral to our customers’ workflows and how they achieve better outcomes.
AI needs good data to be effective, which is why a reimagined, connected environment for data is at the heart of our Design and Make Platform. The Autodesk Data Model works by breaking down files into data subsets, including files that don’t originate in Autodesk tools, so you can share just the pieces of data your collaborator needs rather than massive models. APIs help developers access that granular data and extract value from it.
Today at AU, we shared that a new data model API for AEC is now in public beta. The public beta is currently available for Revit but will evolve to enable customers to unlock value for Civil 3D and other civil-architectural design applications. Access to data that granular, open and accessible allows you to:
We are working towards a future that enables hybrid workflows across Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, other Autodesk offerings such as Revit and Civil 3D, and third-party applications. Our goal is to expand BIM in a way that will drive the industry toward a more successful future through seamless, outcome-driven collaboration. While we build these new workflows, we remain committed to continuing to develop the core capabilities of the Autodesk solutions you need to do your work today.
For more information about the Autodesk Data Model and to sign up for the API, visit Autodesk Platform Services.
Speaking of data, today, we’re also excited to release new capabilities for Autodesk Construction Cloud. These include a new Model Viewer and Work Planning, both in private beta, which support more informed decision-making:
Centralized, structured data empowers our customers to make decisions early, with confidence. With data connected across every phase in the project lifecycle, teams can unlock a new way of working. One where technology systems are integrated, and information flows across tools, teams, and processes. When you and your partners have a continuous flow of current and historical information available directly in your authoring tools, the data empowers you to make constructability decisions in design, avoiding problems later.
Another way we enable connected, accessible data is through our Forma API and interoperability with third-party tools, such as our existing connection between Forma and Rhino, which we built on the Rhino Open API. We are committed to expanding Forma’s interoperability, unifying data not just with other Autodesk software, but with the industry as a whole. For instance, we are working with the likes of Trimble and Nemetschek to explore ways to improve collaboration, information sharing, and efficiency for our customers. We will share more details in the near future.
Remember the intricate and complicated knot? In the future, we’ll have unraveled it and replaced it with a unified AECO environment that makes the most of AI. And as more useful data is surfaced, AI will get better at enabling team members to make informed decisions earlier. We know that having a trusted technology partner is paramount to support you through this evolution. Autodesk understands your team and how your business works—we will be with you from design to the construction jobsite, all the way through to operations.
Imagine if you could securely identify what on-time, on-budget projects have in common—and replicate it. Or understand what poorly performing projects have in common—and avoid it. Your data thread—powered by AI—will produce those insights and so much more. Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform will provide a centralized workspace to connect all teams that design, build and operate the built environment. This is the next evolution of the AECO industry. It’s the future we’re building with you.
We encourage you to check out the live and on-demand classes at AU, and read on for more AECO news from Autodesk University:
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