Join our dynamic AU session to dive deep into the Autodesk Total Carbon Management Solution. This class is tailored for eco-innovators and sustainability champions eager to use innovative technology in their carbon reduction strategies. Learn how Autodesk's powerful tools can help quantify, track, and manage carbon emissions across your projects. Whether you're aiming for carbon neutrality or just beginning your sustainability journey, this class will equip you with the insights and skills needed to make a real impact. Gain practical knowledge through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, enabling you to implement effective carbon management practices immediately. Let's pave the way to a greener planet together!

Buildings and construction generate nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions. Of that 40%, building operations account for 28%, while building materials and construction (a.k.a., embodied carbon emissions) are responsible for 11%. Achieving zero emissions in operations requires a continued focus on energy efficiency, avoidance of the use of fossil fuels, and use of renewable energy systems. Unlike operational carbon emissions, which occur throughout the life of a building, embodied carbon emissions occur “up front” and so play a bigger role in the global carbon budget in the more immediate future. As such, it is more imperative than ever that architects and other project stakeholders start to employ total carbon analysis at all stages of every project. In this session, you’ll join Autodesk Product Development and Impact team members to learn about new data, analysis, and insights into total carbon to help make effective reductions as part of a more integrated, building information modeling (BIM)-based design process.

Are you killing the planet? You may be proud of your net-zero energy buildings and carbon offsets, but have you considered the embodied carbon impact of your buildings throughout their entire lifecycles, including embodied carbon? If not, you're leaving a carbon legacy for future generations to deal with. In the presentation, we'll dive deep into the science of embodied carbon. We'll look at how it's measured through advanced technology such as Revit software, Dynamo, and Autodesk Platform Services (formerly Forge), and why it is crucial to consider. We will explore real-world examples of how embodied carbon impacts building portfolios over time, and how it can affect the planet's future. We'll also examine how considering carbon assessments at different scales (regions, cities, buildings, interiors, and products) can help investors and executives make more-informed decisions on strategies to decarbonize their property portfolios.

The infrastructure design industry has long struggled to minimize environmental impact. Traditional processes cause inefficiencies, hindering early-stage sustainability prioritization. ORIS and Sweco solved this by embedding ORIS's carbon assessment and emissions modeling capabilities into Autodesk Civil 3D software. ORIS's certified calculator streamlines processes, providing comprehensive impact assessments and quantifying embodied carbon emissions for road designs. The innovative plug-in connects drawings to local material sites in ORIS, empowering whole-lifecycle carbon assessments with visualized supply chains. It automates geolocated project generation linked to ORIS's database, identifies quantities per 3D object for bills of materials, and generates accurate carbon footprints based on required materials. Designers can make informed sustainable-sourcing decisions, reducing emissions while promoting local solutions and recycling. This integration solves long-standing sustainability challenges.

Architects today face a complex challenge: accurately estimating carbon footprints while exploring a wider and wider variety of forms. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to effectively integrate Autodesk Forma software's carbon analysis tools with Rhino software's modeling capabilities, presenting a novel workflow that allows the evaluation of multiple designs simultaneously. Understand best practices for organizing data in Rhino. Learn methods to quickly incorporate insights from Autodesk Forma back into Rhino for ongoing design iteration. Discover strategies you can use to dramatically reduce the time spent on evaluating carbon impacts, achieving vast efficiency improvements, while maximizing design quality and minimizing environmental impact.

Infrastructure development is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for a staggering 79% of global emissions. A substantial portion of these emissions stem from embodied carbon, which is found in the materials used in construction like concrete, steel, and glass. This session will explore the effects of embodied carbon in infrastructure and why minimizing embodied carbon is essential for meeting global sustainability targets. We will discuss how innovative technologies and tools can play a pivotal role in quantifying and reducing these emissions, and we'll present real-life applications where advanced technology has made measurable differences in cutting down the carbon footprint of large-scale infrastructure projects. Join us to learn how using the right tools can lead to more-responsible construction practice, helping pave the way toward a greener planet.

In this session, you'll (re)join Autodesk Product Development and Impact team members, plus customers and partners, to learn about recent and future developments in total carbon data, analysis, and insights. This is a follow-up to our Autodesk University 2022 class of the same title (link below). It will provide an in-depth look at new capabilities from across the Autodesk ecosystem. Total Carbon Data, Analysis, and Insights (2022): https://www.Autodesk.com/Autodesk-university/class/Total-Carbon-Data-Analysis-and-Insights-2022

How “green” is your green building? This session intends to answer this fundamental question and to reveal the “real” carbon impacts of various design decisions on early stage building design. Annually, embodied carbon is responsible for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 28% of global building sector emissions. Currently, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms mostly focus on reducing operational emissions without much regard for embodied emissions. This talk will focus on the importance of quantifying the impact of material selection at early stage design on EC, and to integrate the results with Insight 360 software. We’ll illustrate the fundamentals of EE and EC, and we’ll demonstrate through case studies how Dynamo workflows and various carbon databases can be used to provide a visual, high-level carbon feedback to the designer. The intention of this talk is to empower the designers to make better carbon-informed decisions without compromising energy performance for their Architecture 2030 projects.

Microdesk Co-Innovation Lab collaborated with BamCore through the Autodesk Foundation to show the value and benefits of their products to industry clients. Using the Autodesk-provided design analysis ecosystem, we showcase the energy and carbon advantages that BamCore’s products can bring to the design. The developed custom workflow allows BamCore to rapidly obtain comparative energy and carbon impacts and present them to their clients without future support. We’ve also set up the groundwork and created a phased journey to navigate the Future of Work, aiming to include an interactive user interface dashboard for rapid ROI analysis. We compare BamCore technology versus typical constructions to ensure Microdesk and BamCore co-create meaningful and inspirational future impacts toward resilient and low-carbon buildings.

Discover decarbonization design strategies for building design, as well as a data-informed workflow for implementing these strategies to decarbonize the training Revit House. We’ll use Revit software, the Revit One Click plug-in, and One Click LCA to show you how to extract and manage quantitative and material data to measure the embodied carbon emissions associated with the design of the Revit House. After examining the results, and discovering the carbon hotspots, we’ll decide on appropriate decarbonization strategies, aiming for a 40% reduction in line with the World Green Building Council goal. We’ll then apply those strategies to the Revit House. Integration between Revit and One Click LCA has streamlined the data-informed workflow and provides carbon data when the designer needs it. The designer can use this data to make design decisions and subsequently deliver measurably lower carbon buildings.

This case study will showcase Autodesk Forma software's new AI-based embodied carbon analysis, built in collaboration with EHDD, examining real-life use cases by Stantec practitioners to evaluate embodied carbon at the earliest stages of design. First, we'll expand on our AU 2023 product demo, exploring Stantec's partnership with Forma, and establishing the user needs and guiding principles that led us to the in-market embodied carbon analysis. Then, Jack Rusk, who leads the EHDD team behind the C.Scale engine that powers the analysis in Forma, will explain how these same user needs manifested in the computational back end, giving a look behind the curtain at the AI model. Finally, and most importantly, Stantec practitioners will show real projects where they've used the analysis to inform effective early-stage decisions. Specifically, these Forma users will demonstrate that democratized carbon solutions empower any designer to champion sustainable, outcome-based design from step one.

Looking to implement carbon analysis on your project but not sure how and when to use each product? There's no single tool to solve this problem, but many are working to streamline this process. Learn from global architecture, engineering, and construction firm Arcadis about how to upskill your own company on sustainable design workflows at a firm-wide level, despite real-world constraints such as project budgets and resourcing. We'll help you understand the difference between solutions such as Autodesk Forma software's embodied carbon analysis, Insight software, and One Click LCA so you can walk away with a framework for your own team to apply.

Decisions made in the earliest stages of design have the most impact on a building's carbon footprint. Similarly, decisions made in the earliest stages of software development have outsized effects on its usability and adoption. Yet, carbon experts are generally brought into the design process too late to influence a building's form and primary materials. And analysis tools usually target these experts, rather than the designers working in the early phase. Likewise, the software users are often brought in when it's too late to change the fundamental workflows the software is built around. In this talk, representatives from Forma and Stantec will cover how they've used their partnership to develop tools for all designers to bring carbon-focused design to the conceptual phase. They'll showcase discovery work, prototype testing, and, in the end, their plan for enabling sustainability-centered outcome-based design.

Annually, the embodied carbon of building structures, substructures, and enclosures are responsible for 11% of global GHG emissions. Architecture 2030 sets ambitious targets that call for 40% embodied carbon reduction today, and 65% by 2030. This is a great challenge, but also a great opportunity for the global architecture and building community. By integrating embodied carbon reduction strategies into the design process, you can develop a competitive edge, expand your service offerings, and get involved early in the projects. This class will first walk you through the key steps to establishing that strategy - measuring and optimizing embodied carbon from early stages to post construction. It will then demonstrate how to automate the process using the integration between your existing design tools, like Revit or Dynamo, and One Click LCA with its manufacturer-specific data (EPDs), to deliver results complying with any green building certification schemes like LEED and BREEAM.

Arup has made a significant commitment to sustainability in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry by pledging to conduct whole life carbon assessments (WLCA) for all its building projects. This initiative is part of a broader industry movement toward responsible resource management and sustainable development. The creation of "Zero," a digital platform for carbon assessment, reflects Arup's dedication to influencing design practices and decision making toward the reduction of carbon emissions. The platform benefits from data gathered from 1,000+ projects worldwide, and has been showcased at the Global Building Forum. This session will provide an overview of collaborative efforts (including those with Autodesk) aimed at standardizing a WLCA data schema and methodologies; resolving disparities between global and local carbon data sources' using digital technology to capture, store, and enhance data quality; and extracting design recommendations from data analytics to promote global sustainability efforts.

Roads and highways are responsible for more than a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, with 7.3% of global emissions coming from their construction materials (Architecture 2030). Global regulations and incentives to cut these upfront carbon emissions are growing, including the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, and the EU Green Public Procurement. This panel discussion will feature international practitioners and data platform providers who are working to decarbonize roads and highways. Civil 3D software can be a critical piece of this effort, if integrated with sustainability tools. The discussion will cover the opportunities and hurdles faced by engineering companies and technology providers as the infrastructure industry aims to improve its impact on climate change.

Architects today are facing mounting pressure to meet sustainability targets from the onset of a project. The increasing recognition of our shared responsibility to the environment and its wellbeing is driving this shift. Unlocking collaboration among project stakeholders is critical in identifying decarbonization strategies, using Insight for Revit software as a cloud-based platform. This hands-on lab session will explore through real case studies how Insight for Revit facilitates the identification of decarbonization pathways and offers a solution that can help decrease total carbon emissions. In this hands-on lab, you'll experience the integration of carbon analysis into the design process, making sustainability a core consideration across all the design stages. By equipping the next generation of architects with invaluable and indispensable skills, you'll use emerging technologies for designing low-carbon buildings, while closing the communication gap with sustainability specialists.

The next generation of Autodesk Insight software provides a simple collaborative workspace for project teams to target, trade off, and track total carbon throughout the design process and building lifecycle using open and extensible data and analysis. In this session, you'll join leaders from Autodesk Product Development and Impact (Sustainability) teams, as well as customers and partners, to learn about new capabilities available today in next-generation Autodesk Insight——and where it's going in the future. This will build upon the product vision and strategy shared in previous AU classes of the same title, and now we'll provide real-world examples to learn from, reuse, and adapt to meet your needs.

Since 80% of carbon is already locked into a product by the decisions made at the design phase, making good design and manufacturing choices is key to producing products with lower carbon impact. However, today, designers and engineers lack the data and tools to inform their design and manufacturing decisions, all while new and upcoming regulations are forcing designers and manufacturers to produce their products in more-sustainable ways. To tackle this issue, this talk will introduce Autodesk's new Manufacturing Sustainability Insights tool. Created in partnership with Gravity Climate, this interactive manufacturing-impact exploration tool for Autodesk Fusion 360 will provide users with valuable insights into the carbon emissions associated with producing their designs via various manufacturing methods, enabling users to make better informed decisions that support sustainable manufacturing practices, resulting in better products for the planet.