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Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases.
BDP is embedding sustainability into everyday design by empowering its global workforce to make sustainable decisions routine rather than exceptional.
The firm began with a skills survey to understand where teams stood, then developed internal sustainability champions and a Climate Action and Social Impact Design Framework aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Implemented as part of this framework Autodesk Forma Site Design has become an integral part of the firms’s early-stage design process, helping designers evaluate environmental performance early in projects without requiring detailed sustainability expertise.
“With Forma Site Design, everyone now has access to an easy-to-use tool that lets them make better decisions in a flexible way, and that’s hugely beneficial,” says Alistair Kell, Principal and Chief Information Officer, BDP. “We can still go to our sustainability group and computational design and building physics specialists, but not every client needs this or can afford it. It gives our designers the ability to use sustainability insights without being specialists.”
Training materials were embedded into the company’s learning management system to tailor learning. These efforts are improving project outcomes, business performance, and talent attraction, showing how intentional upskilling can scale sustainable design practices across an organization.
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