Autodesk Launches New Total Carbon Analysis Tool for a More Sustainable Built Environment

For Dan Lohmeyer, VP, Building and Infrastructure Design: “Our customers have told us that sustainability is increasingly important. You are under increasing pressure to innovate your business model in a rapidly changing world. Improving workflow efficiency is essential to managing costs and remaining competitive. We are listening. I'm excited to share with you various product updates across our Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) portfolio that bring new value today while paving the way for future for professionals who design and construct the built world. Read on to learn about the new offerings, workflows, and capabilities that I'm particularly excited about and that will make our industry more sustainable, more innovative, and more efficient. »

Design with sustainable results in mind

Autodesk uses this data as inspiration to improve. Today, Autodesk announced Total Carbon Analysis for the AEC Collection, providing new carbon analysis capabilities to track a building's carbon footprint from planning to detailed design.

These include Embodied Carbon Analysis in Autodesk Forma, which leverages AI capabilities and enables architects to understand and test the carbon impact of their design decisions early in the design process. project planning. New features developed in Autodesk Insight that measure the carbon impact of lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, architectural elements, building materials and more are coming soon. For more information, Autodesk encourages you to attend the "What's New in Revit 2025" webinar.

Total Carbon Analysis gives architects unprecedented access to carbon insights through intuitive dashboards to assess trade-offs between embodied and operational carbon. Total carbon analysis will enable the sector to reduce its carbon footprint and improve the sustainability of the built environment.

Designing for sustainability requires comprehensive data. That's why Autodesk is expanding its strategic alliance with Esri to launch new ArcGIS® Basemaps integrations with Civil 3D and AutoCAD to provide civil engineers with detailed geospatial data and mapping capabilities.

Improved visibility of existing conditions that allows users to optimize designs that minimize environmental impacts and ecological disruption. In addition to design workflows, a new update to Autodesk's integration with Esri's ArcGIS Online and Info360 Asset gives water and wastewater network operations and maintenance teams access more easily to asset condition data, risk analysis and rehabilitation plans.

Data for innovation and better collaboration

Building information models (BIM) contain vast amounts of valuable data about a physical asset. Companies in the architecture, engineering and construction industry can turn this data into a competitive advantage by offering their clients a digital twin at the time of delivery.

Autodesk Tandem is the digital twin offering for buildings and will soon be available to all BIM Collaborate Pro subscribers as Tandem for AEC. This means AEC companies will be able to expand and diversify their services to provide a vivid digital representation of projects, along with owner's manuals, asset data and warranty information, all connected to the model 3D. Typically, 95% of data captured in the construction industry goes unused. However, Tandem for AEC will put your data to work, accelerating operational readiness to deliver new value to your customers.

In addition to getting more value from data, it is important that it is easier to use. Now AutoCAD 2025 teams can use the Import Annotations tool with PDFs stored in Docs to maintain live sync as annotations are added. This means Docs users can share markup PDFs that automatically sync with AutoCAD 2025 in a plotting layer. These connections reduce documentation and accelerate collaboration within your teams.

AI updates to accelerate processes and creativity

It’s incredible to see the progression of AI over the past year. The AECO industry continues to embrace the power of AI to augment work, analyze data for insights, and automate processes for greater efficiency.

Across the AECO portfolio, Autodesk is launching new features to leverage Autodesk AI in our customers' workflows.

Autodesk first announced the ML Deluge tool for InfoDrainage last November, and they are rapidly expanding its AI capabilities. Coming soon, new updates will enable greater interactivity with the machine learning deluge tool, providing a more comprehensive experience as users move around stormwater controls. When you add ponds and swales to existing surfaces, you'll get an updated deluge map with analysis running automatically in the background, so you can quickly and easily understand the impacts of your drainage design.

AI is also taking CAD into a new era. With AutoCAD 2025, users can improve content reuse and drawing standardization with the latest Smart Blocks tools, powered by Autodesk AI. New features include Find and Convert, which lets you quickly find objects in your drawings and convert them to new, existing, or suggested blocks.

With the new Object Detection tool, you can save time with automation that cleans up drawings by recognizing objects and converting them into blocks. Still in the technical preview phase, object detection will continue to evolve and improve.

And for construction teams, Autodesk delivered updates to Autodesk Construction Cloud in March that help project managers and teams have the right information to minimize the risks of triggering a chain reaction of costly errors .

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