Construction Industry Overview -- Autodesk AEC Media Days April 2011

Hear Mark Strassman, vice president, construction and plat AEC solutions, AEC Solutions, Autodesk, discuss the worldwide construction market. Mark notes that construction represents 10% of the world GDP. He then notes that 30% of construction costs are attributed to waste. He notes the huge opportunity for technology to improve this, and that contractors are leading the value chain to address this problem of waste.

Mark then outlines how contractors are using BIM and cloud-based data and mobile devices to foster better workflows. He notes that contractors care most about cost, schedule and constructability. Overall, Mark notes the trend is go from waste to real predictability, via application of BIM. The importance of accessing project data in the field via mobile devices is discussed.

Mark stresses that today there are thousands of construction firms using BIM today. With fabrication, Mark notes that construction if evolving to being a manufacturing process. Mark then discusses the value of Navisworks and Quantity Takeoff Autodesk software for construction to help extend BIM beyond design.

Mark then discusses the new Autodesk Building Design Suite 2012 and its application for construction. Mark walks the audience through construction modeling, interoperability, planning & analysis, cost estimation, project management, collaboration enhancements found in the Autodesk AEC 2012 family of software.

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Science & Technology

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• M002
• Building
• Autodesk
• BIM
• Building Information Modeling
• AEC
• Media Days
• 2012
• Autodesk Building Design Suite
• Vault
• AutoCAD 2012
• AutoCAD Architecture 2012
• AutoCAD MEP 2012
• Revit Architecture 2012
• Autodesk Revit MEP 2012
• Autodesk Revit Structure 2012
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012
• Navisworks Manage 2012
• Autodesk Quantity Takeoff 2012
• Autodesk Inventor 2012
• BIM 360