Construction software tools are better than ever before, and each serves an important role for your company. See what excellent software you can integrate with PlanGrid to ensure that teams in the field have the information they need to build better and share real-time intelligence from the jobsite with decision makers in the office.

With last year’s acquisition of PlanGrid, there are a lot of questions about when to use PlanGrid and when to use BIM 360 for field collaboration workflows like quality, safety and project management. This class will help to answer those questions and to provide an update on how Autodesk is working towards helping you use the solutions together effectively and efficiently. Discover the strengths of these best in class, easy to use field collaboration solutions and how Autodesk is working towards integrating BIM 360 and PlanGrid to deliver modern field collaboration solutions to the industry.  

Attendees will learn about the real issues involved with rolling new technology out to field teams. We’ll cover the overall view of technology within field operations staff. We’ll go over a brief history of mobile technology, where we’ve come from, and where we’ll be going in the next 10 years. We will present a use case at Hudson yard where we rolled out PlanGrid in the field, and we’ll go over why it worked, what struggles we had, and what major lessons we learned. And we will cover how to develop a technology implantation plan and conduct a tech rollout.

Learn the nuts and bolts of PlanGrid—the field’s favorite software that powers more than a million construction projects around the world. PlanGrid Consulting Manager Jessica Pollack has introduced PlanGrid to thousands of people, many of whom had never used mobile apps for construction before. Get an overview of what PlanGrid offers, and learn how to get started, and how to start using it with your teams in the field.

PlanGrid became an Autodesk company in 2018, and provides a browser- and app-based tool to work with smart drawings during the construction phase of a project. Setting up a project and linking drawings to the project is a simple process and lets you take advantage of mobile technology on the construction site. AutoCAD guru and LinkedIn learning [in]structor Shaun Bryant (CadJedi) will show you how to prepare an AutoCAD 2D drawing project, with associated drawings for use in PlanGrid. He’ll take you through the necessary housekeeping required in AutoCAD, demonstrate how to add the drawings to the PlanGrid project, and show you the associated benefits PlanGrid provides when on-site.

Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) is the gold standard for planning and executing capital construction projects and has been proven to deliver superior results in safety, schedule, and budget. This discussion involves a case study of how an EPC provider, APTIM, implemented AWP practices, selected software packages to support workflows, and leveraged internal stakeholders to drive adoption. The pace of key workflows such as workface planning and creation of installation work packages was immediately accelerated by the use of a platform of point solutions which includes iConstruct and BIM 360 for work packaging and the use of PlanGrid to visualize the work packages and drawings in the field. The involvement of stakeholders such as middle management and project foremen is highlighted as a key success factor. The combination of process, software, and motivated project staff resulted in a 50% improvement in the “time on tools” as measured by an independent audit conducted by ConstructX.

Join this interactive session to see Construction Technology in action with a live case study from Righetti Partners. Yvonne Schröder will share her experience implementing a shared technology platform across their business to help drive closer collaboration and strengthen relationships with subcontractors, partners and customers. Aditya will join Yvonne to provide a demonstration of PlanGrid, using real examples to drill into the solution and show the power of construction technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to get hands on experience during the session, which will conclude with a questions and answers session with Aditya and Yvonne.

PlanGrid’s customer advocates Peter Razavi and Lorrin Blair have worked with hundreds of companies around the country to help implement PlanGrid according to their unique needs. In this session, you’ll learn how different companies have set up and standardized their workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity. Razavi and Blair will discuss real customer stories and lessons learned based on company business model, size, and region.

PlanGrid’s customer advocates Peter Razavi and Lorrin Blair have worked with hundreds of companies around the country to help implement PlanGrid according to their unique needs. In this session, you’ll learn how different companies have set up and standardized their workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity. Razavi and Blair will discuss real customer stories and lessons learned based on company business model, size, and region.

We’ve been working on concrete measures to make HQ-initiated digital transformation work on site in real projects. Understanding the capability of new technologies, we’ve started working closely with Autodesk to realize what we really want on site. When we tried to implement new technologies into the actual workflow, we faced various obstacles, both small and large. But we had to solve all of them. After numerous trials and errors, we’ve dramatically changed our way of working by moving all drawings and documents from paper to electronic (PlanGrid), moving data from local to cloud (BIM 360), and transforming 2D drawings into 3D models and virtual reality (VR). Our work efficiency related to drawings has improved by 30%, and we’re now also able to produce valuable outputs for our clients. We’ll talk about the challenges and possibilities for the future from a realistic point of view, because we are the people in charge at the site.