Digital transformation and BIM (2:12 min.)
Digital transformation for architecture, engineering & construction
See how innovators are embracing digital transformation and unlocking the full potential of BIM to deliver better outcomes for their business, industry, and the world.
What is digital transformation?
Digital transformation is the shift to a digital-first mindset. It starts with using digital tools for previously analog tasks. It takes a massive leap with BIM-enabled workflows and comes into maturity with the adoption of shared standards, technologies, and processes on an open cloud platform.
Autodesk’s Nicolas Mangon on the evolution of AEC
As Autodesk VP Nicolas Mangon sees it, innovative pioneers within the AEC industry are unlocking the full promise of BIM.
By embracing optimized workflows, AEC firms are using automation, creating new revenue streams, achieving greater project certainty, and finding efficiencies that expand margins and improve performance. This kind of transformation doesn’t happen all at once. Instead, Mangon has identified four main elements that shape an extended digital journey.
The elements of digital transformation
Every journey is different. To successfully chart your own path, understand where you are—and make a plan for where you want to go.
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Digitize
Move to digital processes to enhance skillsets and improve productivity.
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Connect
Embrace cloud-enabled collaboration and data management for real-time access to data and better insights.
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Optimize
Automate and scale processes. Adopt a digital-first mindset to transform business practices.
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Evolve
Unlock data and design circularity with a digital twin to reuse and refine digital and physical assets.
How Autodesk supports the journey
We’re accelerating the AEC industry’s digital transformation by integrating the complete asset lifecycle on an open cloud platform.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of creating and managing information for any project, from a single building to a bridge to a community-scale development.
Using Autodesk’s technology and cloud-based platform, project teams rely on BIM to create and work from a data-rich, 3D representation across the project lifecycle, from planning and design to construction and operations.
Better project delivery starts with connected teams, data, and processes, and is united by shared standards in a common data environment. Autodesk’s cloud portfolio makes it possible.
A digital twin integrates real-time data from a project, resulting in a dynamic and up-to-date replica, uniting design, construction, and operation data. Digital twins enable increased certainty and operational excellence on even the most complex building and infrastructure projects, all while laying the foundation for data and materials circularity.
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Innovations driving transformation
Advancements like generative design, design for manufacturing and assembly, and improved workflows, are creating new possibilities.
AEC innovators are leading the way
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STV – ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES
Ready for the unexpected
How a project built for changing climate flexed in response to Covid-19.
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WAJDI MEREB
2020 Innovator of the Year
See how Mereb is helping Dubai’s Roads and Transit Authority create smart, agile transportation solutions.
Image courtesy of Wajdi Mereb
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WINDOVER CONSTRUCTION
The prefab potential
A streamlined, digital-first process allowed Windover to deploy modular construction for an upscale apartment community.
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Moving toward a resilient future
The AEC industry is rising to meet the need for a more resilient, adaptable, sustainable built environment.
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Building design
Architects are harnessing innovation and the power of BIM to create future-ready designs.
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Construction
Contractors are delivering with connected technology, a robust network, and predictive analytics.
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Infrastructure design
Civil engineers are finding new ways to deliver predictable results that only improve over time.
