For the most part, every dollar that’s gained or lost happens during preconstruction. If general contractors have the information they need to do their best work, everything that can go wrong on-site can be avoided during preconstruction. This is where BC Pro and TradeTapp come in—the all-in-one preconstruction solution for general contractors. Join Mike Powers as he shows you how BC Pro and TradeTapp seamlessly enable general contractors to identify the right subcontractor for the right project through a collaborative bid-management process. You’ll learn how to choose the best bidder, faster, as you access an ever-expanding, crowd-sourced network of subcontractors in real time. Plus, you’ll see how BC Pro streamlines the bid-management process from start to finish, and helps general contractors accurately and efficiently level proposals at scale to identify the best bids. With TradeTapp, you’ll learn how subcontractor qualification and analysis is generated and how the automated recommendations can help risk teams support their strategies.

During the construction process, general contractors and trade contractors work together every day in many ways to get the job done. One way these groups commonly work together to plan projects is through the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and 3D coordination. Holder Construction Company, a general contractor, and McKenney's, Inc., a mechanical contractor, have had a working relationship for many years and have built many projects together. In this time we’ve watched BIM become an integral part of the construction process. In this presentation we would like to explore the different ways we approach coordination, the tools we use, how this relationship has changed over the years, and how we expect it to change in the future. Please also consider joining us for a related roundtable discussion to share your views and experiences.

Mr. Ma is the technical director of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) 8. CSCEC is the world biggest construction corporation, ranked Fortune 52. CSCEC 8 is the major subsidiary of CSCEC, with more than $40 billion in annual contracts. There are approximately 3,000 Building Information Modeling (BIM) engineers in CSCEC 8 who are dealing with BIM-related business. This class will show you how to use BIM technology (especially Autodesk, Inc., Solutions) to strengthen the construction management capabilities for general contractors in China, and we will share the real BIM values with megaproject experiences. The samples will be CTF Tianjin Financial Center (580 meters in height), Shanghai New International Expo Center (140 million square meters), and ICON Cloud (a landmark in west China). The following values that we may introduce include BIM for planning, site management, quantity takeoff, 4D/5D simulation, BIM+RFID (Radio Frequency Identification and Detection), laser scanning, fabrication, and BIM 360 software, and so on.

As a general contractor, quality control of building layout and verification is necessary to minimize the risk of rework and additional costs or schedule delays. When establishing site control to implement the use of total stations, the team will need to work through a number of challenges and prerequisites. General contractors will need to understand the risk of taking or not taking this responsibility or transferring the risk to third-party quality assurance / quality control teams. Buy-in from the project team and enforcing trades to work on the same controls across a site is important to consistency in layout and verifications. This class will highlight all the prerequisites and challenges that general contractors might typically face when implementing this process, and we’ll document a generic workflow for efficient implementation and best practices. This class will also cover a generic workflow of managing layout using the BIM 360 Layout app, Point Layout software from Revit software, Navisworks software, or AutoCAD DWG™ technology. This session features BIM 360 Layout, BIM 360 Glue, and Point Layout. AIA Approved

Over the past several years, ENR Top 40 general contractors like McCarthy, Structure Tone and Mortenson have continually moved up in both rank and revenue... so what do they all have in common? During this session, you’ll learn the #1 secret to their success: an optimized preconstruction process. Join Mike Pettinella (Head of General Contractor Sales at BuildingConnected) — along with leaders from US top General Contractors — for a candid discussion about how general contractors can get ahead in today’s increasingly competitive industry through a collaborative, digitized, and streamlined preconstruction process. The panelists will share how each of their organizations manages preconstruction, how they've improved the efficiency of their teams’ bid management workflows with BC Pro, and how better preconstruction planning directly affects their project outcomes.

Successful general contractors understand that accurate cost estimates are essential to both project and organizational success. For decades, the cost of construction has been a function of marketplaces: labor, materials, insurances, and fees. However, given increasing project complexity and greater technological capabilities, this reality is changing. The need to both understand and also quantify the risk in performing complex projects will shape the way cost estimates evolve in the very near future.

We had a discussion at Autodesk University Las Vegas 2018 that focused on what a BIM coordinator does for the general contractor through processes and workflows—do’s and don’ts and so on. We’ll now explore the process and workflow of a BIM coordinator from the subcontractor side! Our coordination team’s established methods not only help our field crews with install and on-site verification, but they help catch things that sometimes slip through the cracks. Learn how to utilize BIM coordination to improve project outcome for all parties. We’ll discuss how communication, safety, collaboration, prefabrication, quality, and cost can impact what we do to help the industry with tools like Revit software, Navisworks software, BIM 360 Glue software, and more.

Join Grupo Hermosillo, a world-class design/build company with 60 years of experience, as we explore the transformative journey behind our transition to Autodesk Construction Cloud and Autodesk Build software. Discover how Autodesk Construction Cloud addressed preconstruction limitations—including inadequate task tracking and planning issues—through features such as issue detection and task management. Experience firsthand a general contractor's evolution by demonstrating Autodesk Build software's visual simplicity, versatility, and tangible benefits, with an ecosystem integration driving real change and innovation in our projects. Explore the unification of stakeholders' common data environment (CDE) and the process of eliminating communication barriers, creating a connected construction with a seamless project-integration management. Do not miss the opportunity to learn the keys to correct implementation, fostering open communication with your clients, as well as the experience of taking your company to the next level of innovation in the construction industry.

In-wall coordination is arguably one of the most complex workflows to manage throughout the whole lifecycle of a project build. But it doesn't have to be. There are many factors that go into designing and building the interiors of any project, and this can become even more complex in projects involving health care and life sciences. In the construction industry, it's not uncommon for the walls of a building to be coordinated by traditionally marking up construction documentation, or by field coordinating MEP rough-in. However, this approach can lead to a lot of RFIs and rework—and an overall quality reduction. Enhancing in-wall coordination through a virtual coordination process will not only improve the overall efficiency of your project build, it will also unlock many prefabrication opportunities for the general contractor and trade partners. And it will provide opportunities for multitrade layout through robotics, combat labor shortages, and greatly increase the overall quality output of the project.

We had a discussion at Autodesk University Las Vegas 2018 that focused on what a BIM coordinator does for the general contractor through processes and workflows—do’s and don’ts and so on. We’ll now explore the process and workflow of a BIM coordinator from the subcontractor side! Our coordination team’s established methods not only help our field crews with install and on-site verification, but they help catch things that sometimes slip through the cracks. Learn how to utilize BIM coordination to improve project outcome for all parties. We’ll discuss how communication, safety, collaboration, prefabrication, quality, and cost can impact what we do to help the industry with tools like Revit software, Navisworks software, BIM 360 Glue software, and more.

Join leaders from Edged Energy, Burns & McDonnell, and Gaylor Electric as they unveil innovative strategies for dismantling data silos and enhancing collaboration between owner-operators, general contractors, and trade partners in modular data center developments. This panel will explore the transformative impact of digital delivery, illustrating how unified technology platforms like Autodesk Construction Cloud can streamline communication and data management at a project and portfolio level. Gain insights into the synergistic potential of cross-disciplinary partnerships, and learn how these are critical for developing powerful digital delivery practices. The discussion featuring technology and innovation leads will highlight real-world applications of technology tools, challenges overcome, and the process of driving collaboration across teams throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

With the advent of machine learning and advances of technology adoption in the construction industry, the bar is moving higher for general contractors; as a general contractor, you must make sure you stay abreast of recent advances and are well positioned to capitalize on data for managing risk. In this class, using a case study, we will go over the following: how the next-generation BIM 360 platform is designed to create a single source of truth for the lifecycle of projects and a storage for all data in one place where a general contractor can use different solutions in a connected manner; and how Autodesk is going to take it a step further and by Project IQ, make the platform the source of intelligence through the project.Regional quality director from Swinerton, Project manager from Layton, and Technical Deployment Specialist from Bam will then talk from their perspectives about their experience on adoption of BIM 360 to capitalize on data to manage risk and make decisions, and how they feel the platform is transforming their day-to-day job and productivity.

Performing quantity takeoff can be a time-consuming and laborious process, but it doesn't have to be. Many in the industry are still using desktop-based 2D takeoff solutions that lack the collaboration, standardization, and transparency that is essential to running a fine-tuned estimating team. Join this session to see how the pre-construction and estimating teams at Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee are turning to Autodesk Takeoff—a cloud-based 2D/3D quantification solution—to improve collaboration, increase takeoff accuracy, and reduce takeoff time, ensuring everyone is working off the latest project documents. You'll see how leading general contractors use Autodesk Takeoff to tackle project challenges while quantifying project scope. Join this lively discussion to see real-life case studies and walk away knowing how you too can improve your takeoff processes and say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming workflows.

Imagine having to secure more contracts and provide superior service for all clients. Where would you begin? This was the task handed to the team at Jones Engineering Fire Protection, and it's been their focus for the past two years. They have initiated a bold digital strategy aimed at evolving their business, and they've identified five key areas that could be innovated through digital transformation. During this class, discover how Autodesk Construction Cloud has been a game changer in merging disparate workflows and data into a unified platform. Our expert presenter will recount the bumps hit along this road and the victories achieved, highlighting the gains in design team productivity and enhanced teamwork among engineers and on-site teams, and how they're influencing upstream workflows to general contractors. This results in a win-win-win situation: a win for Jones, a win for the general contractor, and a win for the client. Don't miss this opportunity to peek into a leading subcontractor's digital makeover and pick up insights to mirror in your business.

Follow us on our journey as we work toward building an owner’s vision into one of the most inventive aquariums in the country. We will show how BIM engineers can successfully work with owners, architects, general contractors, and subcontractors during the preconstruction phase of any project in order to coordinate scheduling and procurement, reduce requests for information, improve construction sequencing, and much more. This couldn’t be possible if BIM Engineers didn't use multiple Autodesk, Inc., products, and we will demonstrate how these products’ interoperability enabled us to successfully coordinate with the entire Project Team from inception to completion. These products combined enabled us to create a construction model that was not only used for coordination of all trades, but was also used to generate constructability drawings for the field. Watch as we demonstrate how to successfully create these drawings, and we’ll also show how a unique collaborative process and Autodesk products can improve any project’s return on investments.

Intel needs to align on data standardization and the modeling of best practices to be repeatable and scalable across multiple projects. There’s a worldwide shortage and demand for semiconductors in all industries, and to meet this need, Intel is embarking on a $10+ billion multisite fab construction effort that requires collaboration between many general contractors, architects, engineers, and trade partners. As an owner, we want to enforce a modeling platform strategy and standardization of the data. This capability empowers Intel to repeat and reuse our models and data from site to site and from project to project. Unfortunately, we’re getting pushback from our partners to align and adopt our proposed platforms of choice. Without the alignment, the long-term implications are more rework, higher cost, greater risk, and longer construction schedules.

Miron Construction has been using BIM 360 software and the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform for several years now, and has gained valuable experience on how best to set up the building information modeling (BIM) coordination process using all the features of Autodesk Construction Cloud, Navisworks, and Revit software. We will lay out how using cloud-based workshared models that are bridged to and from multiple sites, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro licensing, and controlled scheduled publishing can bring efficiencies to your BIM coordination workflow. We'll also demonstrate the benefits of operating in a high-trust environment where subcontractors and architects work side by side on each other's sites.

Get an overview of the newest addition to the BIM 360 product family and how it will help you publish, manage, review, markup and approve all your project plans, models and documents across the entire project team. When designers, engineers, subcontractors, general contractors and owners get on the same page, construction happens faster, profits rise and outcomes improve

Every major general contractor wants to embrace digital construction in the right way. This class will explain how VINCI Construction France-a general contractor employing 22,000 people in France that started its move to Building Information Modeling (BIM) almost a decade ago-has perfected its preconstruction approach, and how it is bridging the BIM gap to the job site. This course will detail the strategy designed by VINCI to preconstruct Revit models that can be useful for job-site purposes, and how custom tools and interfaces have been developed to ensure the right communication between the BIM preconstruction team and the work-front team. The main goal of this class is to show how digital construction can be a reality, and look at how it affects quality, productivity, and innovation for the industry.

What’s the best way for general contractors to identify the strongest bid, or better yet, the best bidder for their projects? How can general contractors save time identifying the best bid while being as accurate as possible? What are the elements to consider when comparing bids side by side that enable general contractors to identify the best subcontractor to work with? Join Angela Santurbano (lead product manager) and Cooper Jobling (customer success manager) as they talk about the best ways to compare bids in an apples-to-apples fashion, while maintaining all project information front and center. They’ll also help you identify the best subcontractor to work with even if that subcontractor has submitted a proposal that’s higher than their competitors’ proposals.