Operational digital twins link real-time Internet of Things (IoT) data with digital representations of real-world processes to model what’s happening and to optimize what’s going to happen next. In 2021, Autodesk acquired Innovyze’s industry-leading water-modeling solutions, along with the Info360 SaaS platform, delivering an operational digital twin for water catchment, treatment, and distribution. Info360 joins water-simulation models used by most utilities worldwide with cloud technology, IoT monitoring, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and physics-based modeling techniques to create a dynamic digital twin for the entire water-processing cycle. In this session, we’ll demonstrate Info360. We’ll review trends in operational digital twins and how simulation models can move to the cloud to enable real-time simulation. We’ll review machine learning and AI modeling approaches that are being used to optimize in real time. And we’ll assess the challenges involved in deploying these systems, and what you should do to prepare.

Hydraulic transients, commonly known as water hammer, pose a serious threat to water distribution systems, as they can often cause catastrophic pipe bursts. Simulating hydraulic transients remains a challenge due to the nonlinear governing equations, limited field data, and a host of operating conditions and requirements. We designed this session based on the adage that "a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.” The purpose is to emphasize the importance of the topic, introduce the fundamentals of water hammer simulation, and caution against common pitfalls that could lead to catastrophic failures of pipes and appurtenances in hydraulic systems. In the session, you will explore case studies that show how InfoWater Pro is used to protect piping infrastructure from potential harm by transients. You will also acquire a solid understanding of InfoWater Pro software's Surge functionality, which will help you analyze and mitigate transients within your own systems.

Many architectural designs incorporate a water feature as a prominent visual component of the structure. This class will explain how to implement 3ds Max Fluids software for the creation of these features. This class will take you through the process of creating animated water fountains and tranquil waterfalls that can be found in a variety of landscapes. You will learn how to simulate water flow using 3ds Max Fluids and the Motion Field space warp, and apply a custom material to render a realistic water. This class will step through the process of building a fluid flow from beginning to end using the capabilities built into the 3ds Max Liquid fluid dynamics system.

Many architectural designs incorporate a water feature as a prominent visual component of the structure. This class explains how to implement 3ds Max Fluids for the creation of these features. This class will take you through the process of creating animated water fountains and tranquil waterfalls that can be found in a variety of landscapes. You’ll learn how to simulate water flow using 3ds Max Fluids and the Motion Field Space Warp. Apply a custom material to render realistic water. This class will step through the process of building a fluid flow from beginning to end using the capabilities built into the 3ds Max liquid fluid dynamics system.

Curious about the road ahead for Autodesk's product and service offerings for designing and maintaining water systems? Join Autodesk product and strategy managers to learn about new features and functionality supporting the capabilities and workflows you need to design and manage water systems and resources more effectively. Learn about the strategic insights and decisions driving development directions, and see early demonstrations of features and workflows yet to be released. Peer into the future of the products you use every day, and engage with Autodesk to help shape those products to better meet your needs and the needs of your company, project teams, and clients.

This presentation will demonstrate Autodesk's water solutions portfolio and how you can (1) achieve project Envision verification with strong backup documentation, (2) position your company as a leader in the sustainability infrastructure space, and (3) increase your chances of winning more work. According to Autodesk's 2023 State of Design and Make Report, 82% of companies are getting pressure from their customers to meet sustainability goals. Moreover, 80% agree that improving sustainability practices is a critical long-term strategy to drive company revenue. The value of Envision-verified projects supports the above trends. In 2013, the cumulative value was $0.13 billion which increased in 2022 to $118 billion. Up to 23% of the achievable points in an Envision verification are water-related. So, how can projects capitalize on this? Find answers in this presentation by exploring the breadth of Autodesk's water solutions.

Aging infrastructure combined with limited funding and tightening regulations are causing great stress on water networks. Water assets are considered critical based on their likelihood and consequence of failure. The consequence of a critical pipe failure could lead to outages, severely disrupting daily activities and access to drinking water—in addition to the financial implications associated with property damage, road closures, and manufacturing disruptions. The path toward mitigating such risk starts with hydraulic modeling in conjunction with sound asset-management practices built into Info360 Asset software. In this session, we'll showcase InfoWorks WS Pro software's critical link analysis to automate criticality simulations, where areas of the network are isolated, and the corresponding level of service impacts are reported. Next, we'll make this data available in Info360 Asset to perform risk analysis, develop rehabilitation decision trees, and ultimately prioritize capital spending.

Autodesk CFD software is a great simulation tool for solving practical problems of MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) design for commercial buildings. In this class, you will see simulation strategies and techniques as applied to MEP design analysis to achieve better designs. We will share our experience of actual projects where Autodesk CFD has been used to zero in on effective ventilation in a diesel generator room; to gain insight to arrive at desirable smoke exhaust design for life safety in a public space; to improve design layout of a basement car park for acceptable ventilation; and to troubleshoot water leakage in an airport roof by rainwater flow simulation. You will learn how airflow and thermal simulations from Autodesk CFD are used to demonstrate the performance of MEP design. You will understand how results visualization and extraction tools are useful for spotting design issues and fixing them cost-effectively. We will also highlight advantages, best practices, and limitations while using Autodesk CFD for the MEP design process.

Learn how to make a realistic flood assessment using the immersive 3D design environment of InfraWorks 360 software and Hydronia RiverFlow2D flood-simulation model. Even if you’re not a fully versed hydraulic engineer, you will learn to set up a flood simulation—from building the topographic model to generating a flood animation of water depths and velocities in a few minutes, and with effective communicational impact. See how you can make infrastructure design evaluations based on flood hazards while improving your hydraulic-simulation workflow and producing graphics and animations that greatly enhance your presentation to decision makers. In this class, you will learn the latest advances of the InfraWorks 360 flood-simulation plug-in, you will understand the tools available to define flood hazards in any location, and you’ll export your simulation results to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

In this hands-on lab, learn how Inventor® Professional, Autodesk® Simulation CFD, and Autodesk® Simulation Mechanical design tools can empower structural engineers and architects to accurately assess designs for the infrastructure of our growing world. Autodesk design and creation suites are a smorgasbord of design tools, many with unlimited cloud computing capabilities. Creatively exploring various combinations and interoperability functions of Autodesk Simulation tools in nontraditional workflows can have a profound effect on design. This lab provides an opportunity to practice the workflow and techniques in a hands-on environment. A case study shows the techniques that are needed then justifies using simulation tools and workflows to accurately predict the thermal profile and resultant stresses through validation against measured bridge data. Attendees learn how Inventor designs can be analyzed for thermal loads using Simulation CFD and for thermal stresses using Simulation Mechanical.

When Revit software first hit the market, users thought the best place for it would be in the architect world, doing simple, cookie-cutter buildings. Who would have thought that it could turn out to be a powerful modeler for non-traditional buildings, such as process plants, water treatment plants, or wastewater treatment plants. In this class, we discuss how the MEP tools in Revit benefit these types of jobs; how to work with your content providers to get the best representation possible; how to get more value from BIM models in other products, such as Autodesk® Simulation-based software; and how to position the BIM model to your client and their contractor. Learn what it takes to be competitive in this market with Revit as your primary modeling tool, and do it efficiently.

In this class, we will cover applications of Autodesk CFD Simulation software for sustainable design in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. You will learn how Autodesk CFD is used in the AEC design process. We will cover case studies involving the following: energy-efficient ventilation design for a large sports stadium facility; indoor thermal comfort using energy-efficient displacement ventilation for a large convention center foyer occupied by people; wind-loading analysis to simulate wind pressure and resultant structural loading on an airport façade and roof; and optimization of storm-water roof-drainage design using free surface flow. You will learn how the air flow and thermal simulations capabilities of Autodesk CFD are used to demonstrate performance for sustainable design.

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with technologies such as additive manufacturing, crowd sourcing, and distributed models of production?

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with increasingly intelligent and connected machines, advanced automation, and open-source hardware and software?

This class will cover the use of Autodesk CFD Simulation software in the design of cooling and backup power infrastructure for business continuity in data centers. Data-center business is poised for rapid growth around the world. Well-designed cooling and backup power infrastructure is critical to data-center performance. Autodesk CFD is a useful tool for evaluating design strategies to optimize data-center cooling and improve energy efficiency. You’ll learn how to characterize data-center and backup power components in an Autodesk CFD model. You’ll learn how to identify strategies to develop an Autodesk CFD model for airflow and temperature simulation. We’ll highlight assumptions made to reduce overall complexity without losing design intent. You’ll learn to capture important results and evaluate the design for effective cooling to ensure business continuity of a data center.

HVAC Solution is a schematic simulation tool used to determine and size HVAC components used in your Revit software projects. It also serves has a guide to help you connect your Revit software objects in the right order. Start off your project by choosing our Microsoft® Windows®-based drag-and-drop technology to lay out your project or begin by using one of our numerous wizards. Answer questions and build your air, hydronic hot and chilled water, steam, and control systems. Our intelligent objects and systems allow you to run what If scenarios and perform all the necessary HVAC system calculations. Once systems are created and calculated, you automatically select equipment from many of the equipment manufacturers in the HVAC industry. After all the equipment capacities have been determined, the schedules and schematics can be imported into Revit using the new Revit Add-in feature or you can map and transfer the data into the corresponding Revit families and automatically get your schedules created in Revit.

King's College London relaunched it's Engineering department in 2019 with the aim of attracting students and staff to tackle new societal and technological challenges and change the world through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education. In this talk I will describe our journey towards a ‘create-first' programme pedagogy flipping the traditional Blooms triangle to deliver a horizontally and vertically integrated curriculum with design and make at the heart. We will reflect on the emerging benefits of scaffolding project-based learning with design and simulation and highlight the improved design, sustainability, and systems thinking skills seen in our students. Our deep-dive will focus on a first-year integrated design course where students work in teams to design, make, and operate a remote-control ship to collect floating waste in a water tank. Our project-based approach exposes students to a range of manufacturing methods. We have created a series of short workshops for 2D cutting, 3D printing, and three-axis milling and we will demonstrate how instructors can use the Fusion 360 API to automate the modelling of engineering components. In this project-based learning module 200+ students use Fusion 360 (and connections with Simulink and Arduino) to develop high fidelity digital twins of a design, build, and test project, while retaining the open-ended nature of design projects and maintaining a common digital thread throughout the experience.

The development level of hydraulic modeling applications enables their use in various everyday situations in the water industry throughout the entire lifecycle of assets, not only in the design and specification stages. The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks software), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS PRO software). This new dynamic enhances the use of these tools together, extracting the best result as quickly and accurately as possible, both in the design phase and also during operations and maintenance. In this session, we'll go through studies of network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.

Understanding how a sewer network impacts the environment in wet weather is a complex challenge. Sydney Water needs data to prioritize capital investment based on "risk” of impact to the flora/fauna or socially sensitive sites. Sewer overflow structures' discharge rates are extremely variable in their performance (hydraulic and water quality). To comprehend the risk of impact, a fully integrated single ICM model of the area (200 km2) was developed, with sewer pipes (1D) and stormwater pipes (1D), and receiving tidal estuary (2D). This calibrated model simulated hydraulics and water-quality parameters unique to each 1D/2D system. Due to the size of the model and the need to run a 10-year time series, cloud computing was used, which substantially increased run time. The outputs were coupled with the "value” of the receiving environment (for example, swimming beaches). Come to this session to see the real value that an integrated ICM model can bring to the assessment of risk of impact to the receiving environment.