In today’s competitive construction landscape, estimators are often caught in the chaos of juggling 2D drawings and 3D models across ever-changing bid packages. Long nights, rushed numbers, and missed margins are all too common. Enter Autodesk Takeoff software—a powerful, cloud-based solution on Autodesk Construction Cloud that brings clarity, accuracy, and connection to your quantification process. In this hands-on lab, you’ll experience firsthand how Takeoff transforms the way quantity takeoffs are performed. Whether you're working in 2D, 3D, or both, this class will walk you through the complete connected workflow—from setting up customized takeoff types and applying unit costs, to managing drawing revisions and comparing snapshots mid-process. By the end, you'll know how to deliver faster, smarter, and more accurate takeoffs that give your team the competitive edge in bidding.

What comes before any successful construction project? An accurate estimate is a good place to start. You have a lot to gain from a standardized pre-con environment in Autodesk Construction Cloud, from the first schematic drawings brought into Autodesk Docs software then quantified in Autodesk Takeoff software. In this hands-on lab, you’ll gain firsthand experience in quantifying a new project’s design the right way. What we'll give you: Step 1: A standard project template will offer your team a playbook to follow for Management. Step 2: Typical items you need are present for you to quantify on the new project. What you’ll do: Step 3: (This is the hands-on part.) In accessible interactive activities, you’ll apply advanced 2D and 3D quantification tools. You’ll translate project scope into material, labor, and equipment costs to generate an accurate project estimate. Come work with us to experience the value Autodesk Construction Cloud can bring to your pre-con workflows.

In this session we’ll discuss why Hazen chose to implement the Design features of Autodesk Construction Cloud for Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and Revit after extensively testing a variety of other Document Management Systems (Nasuni, Panzura, ProjectWise, BIM 360). Things covered will be: How testing was performed and over what time frame. The key factors that led to Hazen to choose ACC. What our experience was with each DMS. How Hazen is transitioning to ACC from other Document Management Systems. What the positives and negatives are of utilizing ACC Design. What our internal feedback has been from both Designer, Engineers, and Project Managers. What improvements Autodesk can implement to make ACC even better. Along the way we’ll provide details on ACC workflows Hazen has developed and their resulting project efficiencies. We’ll also touch on the possibilities of future ACC implementation around the Takeoff and Build features.

Looking for ways to easily incorporate 5D BIM into your existing workflows? Join this session to learn how Assemble can easily connect your quantities from the BIM model to your existing Microsoft Excel estimating templates or your Sage estimating databases.  Streamline your takeoff process and eliminates tedious, time-consuming workflows.

Learn how to use the power of Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect, which allows users to create their own custom app integrations without the need to write code. In this class, we’ll discuss how to connect siloed data to integrated data to support efficient EPC delivery. Specifically, we’ll discuss various applications of the “recipes” (workflows) to extract files and metadata within the common data environment (CDE)—i.e., BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Assemble—to move to platforms such as Aconex and Microsoft SharePoint, and comply with ISO 19650 requirements. Additionally, the extracted data can be used to automate creation of dashboards to monitor progress of design quantity takeoffs, construction installation, issues resolution, and most other data available via the Autodesk Forge APIs. Recipes can be used for a single project or at an account level (across several projects). Find out how Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect can help you save time and reduce errors by automating many business processes.

Following the success of Ivana’s Autodesk University 2021 top-rated construction session, we'll dig deeper into the implementation of Autodesk Construction Cloud across a large business. With Autodesk Construction Cloud starting to get real traction, we'll look into the benefits of using it. Tools like Autodesk Construction Cloud, BIM 360 software, and Autodesk Assemble software enabled us at Mace Group to improve collaboration and coordination in the office, better manage quality in the field, analyze data, and get quick material takeoffs to support design changes and our net zero carbon initiatives. As we've seen massive improvements in the way we analyze and access data, this session will help you to standardize your projects and set up an effective reporting system from day one. Still not convinced you'll be able to implement Autodesk Construction Cloud in your company? We'll talk about winning people over and enabling them to succeed. Going through our latest and greatest case studies will help you push the boundaries of ambition by driving innovation and the use of technology every day.

Technology for preconstruction has come a long way in recent years. The introduction of building information modeling (BIM), cloud-based takeoff tools, AI (artificial intelligence), and bidding platforms has shaken up the way estimating and preconstruction management operates. The phase of construction has finally exploded with new ideas around cost modeling, historic cost analysis, new methods of collaboration, and the convergence of 2D and 3D quantification. As you mix in the ideologies around the common data environment (CDE), all these improvements in cost planning are also able to inform decisions downstream in the field and upstream to the owner and client. This session will entail an open panel and discussion featuring estimators from DPR Construction, Windover Construction, and Arcadis. They’ll share their experiences with the new age of estimating, and reveal how those benefits help drive their project efficiency. We’ll discuss common industry challenges, expanding on these new ways of working, and highlighting all the technologies that make it happen. Join us!

We all have to start somewhere, and getting started is often the most difficult endeavor of all. In this class, we'll begin at the beginning, and look at how anyone can get started with Autodesk Construction Cloud. Come and see how the platform is more than just a construction tool for organizing and sharing project data. We'll look at Autodesk Docs software and see how it may be used as a common data environment (CDE) that follows ISO 19650 procedures and respects the information management method defined in the standards. With Autodesk BIM Collaborate and Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, we can work collaboratively with Autodesk Construction Cloud. Also, we’ll take a look at Autodesk Build software's toolset for the management of all of our project information, as well as Autodesk Takeoff software's real-time estimation view.

Arcadis was able to reduce the risk and improve productivity in the processing of hundreds of change orders for the California High-Speed Rail project. The team struggled using Microsoft SharePoint in the management of the volumes of information, and had no automated way for quantity verification. Introducing Autodesk Build software into this large infrastructure project provided a better platform in the organization of the information and data. Adding Autodesk Takeoff software to the team’s workflow improved the productivity of verifying quantities of the submitted change orders, boosting estimate productivity by 50%.

Even with the enhancements of building information modeling (BIM) workflows, the estimators have struggled to take off quantities accurately due to the lack of "information" in the BIM data. Add to that the complexity of combining 3D takeoffs with 2D drawings, and the estimators have a never-ending nightmare. The result is either not winning the job, or winning with not much profit. This is where Autodesk Takeoff—the cloud-based 2D and 3D quantity takeoff (QTO) tool from Autodesk Construction Cloud—is proving to be a gamechanger. With the industry-leading, automated, 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools, Autodesk Takeoff allows estimators to generate accurate bids and win more jobs. This class will focus on showing the capabilities of the connected takeoff process using the BIM data hosted on the Autodesk Construction Cloud project. You’ll learn about the automated 3D takeoffs and how to combine them with the customizable 2D takeoffs to generate accurate bids. You’ll also learn how to review changes in design and update your takeoffs.