Diversified Machine Systems (DMS) makes excellent routers for processing plastic and composite materials. Using TruNest, you can automate all of the manual operations that take significant programming time and consume engineering time with nonvaluable work. Push more work through these routers with TruNest.

Using project examples, this class will address the use of multiple software applications as a workflow, dealing with multiple clients and users—all of whom are collaborating and coordinating on large-scale buildings in one complex. The class will cover how we implemented Building Information Modeling (BIM) from 3D through 6D for design, coordination, simulation, estimating, and facilities management. We will discuss techniques used by the team to streamline the design process, program settings we used to facilitate BIM use in the construction phase, 4D simulations, visualization of building interfaces, BIM-integrated estimating processes and procedures, and BIM-integrated facilities management.

Take advantage of the tools and techniques that the pros use on blockbuster films and television commercials to create videos and presentations that will blow your audiences away. If you currently edit video or produce renders for video, you need to attend this class. You' will see how paring Autodesk® Smoke® software for editing and effects with animation products, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, enables a powerful pro video workflow for integrating high-definition video, 3D renders, and 3D data to produce results that surpass the look of standard "corporate video." Replace cumbersome workflows that require round-tripping between editing, 3D, and effects applications with the power of Autodesk products' integrated video, special effects, and 3D pipeline to deliver professional video results.

This class is for anyone who is currently using Building Information Modeling (BIM) or intends to utilize it on large-scale projects in the future. This will be immensely helpful, inspirational, and thought provoking for owners and all stakeholders to make the best utilization of BIM on large-scale projects.

This session will present how The Ohio State University has successfully developed a Building Information Modeling (BIM) project delivery standard that enables the model to serve as a single source of truth for relevant spatial and asset information throughout the building lifecycle. This delivery standard has truly "begun with the end in mind" by taking advantage of the knowledge gained from the BIM for Existing Buildings portion of the Buckeye BIM Initiative. We'll highlight how the Revit portion of this deliverable will work in collaboration with COBie structured data to facilitate its utilization in effective data turnover. We'll highlight the need to implement technology solutions and workflows to enable the use of the model across the University and to support interoperability with other data systems. Last, we'll cover lessons learned, continuing challenges, and how the standard has evolved over the last 2.5 years of existence.

With the advent of ways to visualize ideas, develop design solutions, and rapidly prototype using digital software technologies, traditional ways of teaching industrial design in the classroom environment are lately being questioned by educators, employers, and students. The intent of this class is to present a curriculum model for teaching industrial design using digital software technologies as and where applicable. We will cover courses demonstrating the incorporation of digital software technologies for ideation, modeling, project management, drafting, prototyping, analysis, and injection mold design. Successful integration of this curricular effort into the discipline of industrial design is important for bridging the gap between education and industry expectations. Select academics and industry professionals will join us in a panel format to share their reactions to the curriculum model as well as to provide insights, experiences, and validations.

Is your computing environment slowing you down? Interested in seeing a workstation with the performance of a desktop? Is your current laptop too heavy? Is a laptop still too bulky for your needs? If you said yes to any of these questions, you don’t want to miss this class. See the latest line of Lenovo® mobile computing products, including laptops, ultrabooks, and tablets. Case studies and usage scenarios will show you how to maximize IT investments to optimize portability and usability to meet your needs.

This class will take a case-study approach to demonstrate a real-life example of harnessing BIM data throughout the facility management lifecycle of a corporate office.  IBI Group has developed a sound workflow to harness modeled data sourced in either Revit or Civil 3D within a custom-built asset management solution.  The service provided includes "gluing" asset-specific data together in a virtual environment including the BIM representation and offering the output as a managed solution for our clients / stakeholders.  This process involves strong definition of a project's BIM goal, stated BIM Uses to achieve the goal, and diligent Project BIM Leadership to accomplish the mission.  The solution provides web-based, or mobile access to asset information coupled with the ability to virtually interact with the asset as well as achieve real-world visual information, financial data, warranty timelines, and other pertinent information.  All this enhances the ability to plan OPEX / CAPEX.

How has the world changed since you entered the workforce? How has your company’s culture changed? For the first time ever, five generations coexist in the workplace. These diverse perspectives offer an unprecedented opportunity to drive innovation from multiple viewpoints. Technology and digital transformation bring people together and empower us to become more human in how we do our work. Cross-generational collaboration and engagement create a corporate legacy of purpose and meaning. By fostering this legacy through a culture of creativity, productivity, and efficiency, your company will mobilize to create a resilient innovation culture that is able to weather economic uncertainties and elevate your business to its highest potential.

In this class, you’ll discover a set of high-end effective tools to optimize, design, and detail RC shear walls and slabs within a BIM platform such as Revit software. You’ll discover firsthand how to store seismic results and theoretical reinforcement values in Revit and use them to design and detail shear walls and groups of shear walls, optimize the fabrics distribution over an entire slab, and manage additional bars around openings. After having created and optimized the 3D rebar model based on design-driven rebar cages and reinforcement areas, we’ll go through the detailing part generating corresponding fabrics and rebar schedules, and we’ll see how we can manage the bars splitting to consider fabrication and transportation constrains and generating the final reinforcement drawing. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover a new workflow and new tools that will help you take a major step forward in your future rebar project management using Revit and Graitec technology together.

Cultists, taskmasters, and bugs in your hair. Who knew there were so many parallels between a Temple of Doom and a construction trailer? In this class, we’ll take a chilling look at the perils of communication breakdowns between the field and the office, and what would have happened to Indiana and Willie Scott had they implemented some best practices in field-to-office communication. Hear from the industry about how implementing effective communication strategies can give you better visualization when you’re in the thick of it. Discover how a plane crash over the Himalayas can help you clearly define roles, responsibilities, and communication expectations; how a foul-tasting brainwashing elixir drunk from a skull can help you create champions in the field that can influence your entire organization for good; and how empowering your crews with the right leadership and direction can help your firm punch out problems before they rip your heart out.

Imagine! You have youthful 20-somethings working with a 60-year-old team member on the same project. These team members work for the same employer but have very different expectations of and perspectives on the company. Many companies are facing the challenge of employing a range of 4 (soon to be 5) generations. These include The Greatest (born before 1945), baby boomers (’46-’64), Gen Xers (’65-’80), Millennials (’81-’01), and soon Generation Z (2001 onward). Millennials are emerging as the largest population in the workforce, and this has left some of the other generations wondering if we are entering ”Millennial Madness” with a dysfunctional workforce. For engineering and fabrication companies, what are the challenges to overcome, strengths to capitalize on, and paths forward for success? This presentation will present sound research, solid solutions, and a cure for Millennial Madness!

In Australia, procuring and delivering infrastructure projects digitally is still in its infancy. We need to encourage our clients and not confuse-simplicity is the key. We've all heard the cliché "a picture tells a thousand words," but there's real value in using images to promote engineering content. Images help us learn, grab attention, explain tough concepts, and inspire. Master Information Delivery Plans (MIDP) and levels of detail (LOD), which are usually very detailed wordy descriptions, can be easily represented through diagrams-which can then be used as a basis for developing Task Information Delivery Plans (TIDP). I have used these diagrams successfully on projects with government clients, and can easily explain the required inputs, what will be delivered through the milestones of delivery, and the outputs at each stage of project delivery. This will also let you build content within Building Information Modeling (BIM)-enabled platforms for consistency in delivery.

No matter how many individuals your company employs, the business environment we live in continues to accelerate at a rapid pace, making it critical to ensure that everyone has the tools and knowledge to help your firm compete and succeed. Whether it’s changes to your design software, building code changes, or new tools being introduced to your project workflows, we as leaders need to be able to bring the entire company along with us on the journey. Find out the secret ingredients that Taylor Design is using on the team-learning front, and how we employ several methods to reach everyone within the firm, and make learning fun, relevant, and actionable to current tasks—while making the learning content accessible to future employees.

Did you know that 70% of women engineers leave the field before they have 20 years of professional experience? Only 13% of engineers are women, and only 20% of engineers are disabled. Plus, 19% of engineers are underrepresented minorities, and only 2% of engineers are women of color. Why are these numbers so low? Why are women leaving before retirement? Why are some soap dispensers racist? We’ll talk about the factors that lead to these issues and what each of us can do to improve these numbers. Inclusion is one of the key mechanisms for reaching a more diverse workforce. When we all feel included, we’ll see an increase in the diversity of our teams. Inclusion is also necessary in our projects. We’ll talk about how a diverse team leads to designs that are inclusive of all people. And if that wasn’t good enough, we’ll also look at how diverse teams perform better, are happier, and will improve your bottom line.

Over 70% of the cost of a facility is incurred during its occupied lifecycle, well after design and construction. Building owners who want to lower operating expenses can use BIM to improve how they document new spaces and maintain facility documentation and to create a streamlined collaboration channel for facilities and design firms. Facilities that have a Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based facility management system can expect improved coordination, efficient facility documentation, and accessible energy audit information. This class discusses the move from design to facility lifecycle management and explores the processes and best practices developed at Indiana University Health's Riley Hospital for Children and St. Vincent Fishers Hospital. Riley Hospital is an integrated project delivery (IPD)-driven project that is currently under construction, and St. Vincent Fishers Hospital recently completed an 11,000-square-foot expansion that integrates with the existing facility management plan.

A primary challenge faced by the construction industry has been an iterative coordination process due to inefficient sharing of latest information between project stakeholders. This could lead to delays in schedules and cost overruns. BIM 360 Glue software has revolutionized collaboration between all project stakeholders by providing seamless data and information exchange. In this session, we will present a case study of a San Francisco mega public-transportation project, the largest approved public-transportation project in the United States. We will discuss how BIM 360 Glue software was capitalized on to implement workflows for effective and efficient management and coordination. We will also cover some of the core features of BIM 360 Glue software that could help attendees unravel its potential on other projects for streamlined Building Information Modeling (BIM) execution. This session features BIM 360 Glue and Navisworks Manage. AIA Approved

Exploration of the BIM implementation strategy at Khansaheb and a review of the workflows behind our first successful digital project delivery

Come and discover Vico's 5D Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution. Vico Office is purpose-built for construction, and is designed as a tightly integrated, BIM-neutral platform to which multiple types of BIM models can be published, synthesized, and augmented with cost and schedule information. To maximize efficiency and meet the distinctive needs of the various trades and phases of the construction process, Vico Office is structured in a modular way, providing you with a tailored yet expandable solution and a consistent, easy-to-use environment. Using Vico Office, building owners and general contractors can collaborate efficiently, improve predictability, reduce risk, manage cost, and optimize schedules on large, complex building projects. This integrated construction management software offers project teams the flexibility to specialize their disciplines (modeling, scheduling, estimating) and still collaborate (coordination, budgeting, and project control with all stakeholders).

Reality capture has become the new normal for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in delivering and executing projects. But as is the case with any new method, the first few years are always the Wild Wild West—with minimal standards, compliance checks, and quality procedures in place. This roundtable will give participants the ability to have detailed discussions with industry experts who’ve been in the trenches on hundreds of reality-capture jobs, including static LiDAR (light detection and ranging), drones, and photogrammetry. This roundtable will focus discussions on methods for determining whether to procure services or move them in house, staffing requirements for project execution, and critical elements to better ensure successful usage of reality-capture data. This session features ReCap 360 and Navisworks Manage.