• How A-lab effortlessly deployed Autodesk Forma for its architects 

    We recently had the pleasure of engaging in a conversation with Angie Mendez, Architect and Technology Director at A-lab, a process-driven architecture studio. Angie, in her pivotal role, emphasizes the importance she sees in helping A-lab transform into a data-driven organization and she credits Forma as an instrumental tool in supporting this transition. In our quick…


  • How Stantec is using AI to reduce carbon in the built environment 

    In this blog post, we share insights from our conversation with Mike DeOrsey, Digital Practice Manager at Stantec, a global leader in design and engineering consultancy. Delving into sustainability challenges, Mike details the difficulties that is posed by calculating carbon too late in the building design process. He shares the firm’s excitement about Forma and…


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    How Arcadis makes data-led sustainable decisions with Autodesk Forma 

    As Arcadis, a global leader in design and engineering, advances its sustainability goals to reach net zero by 2035, we had the opportunity to chat with their Digital Lead, Caoimhe Loftus. In our conversation, Caoimhe shares her team’s goal to democratize sustainability, ensuring it isn’t an expert-only task. She openly details how the use of…


  • Building Harmony: The journey behind Naviate Outdoor Area extension

    Frequent users of Forma might already be familiar with one of the newest additions to our third-party extensions: “The Outdoor Area Extension by Naviate“. This extension provides one of the most requested features of all time – especially from our Norwegian users: It helps the user design high-quality outdoor areas in a project – and…


  • How Baker Barrios Architects made dramatic business gains with Forma

    Since winning the Forma Design Contest in 2023, American architecture firm Baker Barrios Architects (BBA) implemented Autodesk Forma to enhance the schematic design process, boosting creativity and improving client service. Read the full story here about how BBA leveraged Forma as the basis of an innovative digital workflow that consolidates the functions of 4-5 different…


  • Assess, compare and optimize your proposals for better living qualities with Autodesk Forma

    What if you could predict and perfect the living conditions of your architectural designs during the initial stages?  Understanding the impact of your design proposals on the quality of life of your users is of utmost importance. Success and satisfaction do not end with client approval, in fact, they extend throughout the lifespan of the buildings and…


  • AFRY uses Autodesk Forma for Sweden city planning

    Executive summary  A leader in sustainable solutions, AFRY is one of Europe’s largest engineering and design firms. Offering services across markets including infrastructure, industrial, and decarbonisation initiatives, its 19,000-strong team works on projects in more than 100 countries around the world. And with such a strong focus on environmentally conscious developments, AFRY was the natural…


  • Forma’s AI-powered rapid noise analysis offers instant insights into noise conditions

    Leveraging machine learning, the rapid noise analysis is a predictive analysis that complements our standard noise analysis. What’s the difference between the two, you might be asking? To find out more, we caught up with Principal Machine Learning Engineer and rapid noise project lead Renaud Danhaive from our Boston office. He gives us a quick…


  • Rødovre becomes the first Danish municipality to collaborate with Forma

    Autodesk Forma’s cloud-based platform will help Rødovre Municipality to better visualize and optimize future urban development projects, positioning the municipality at the forefront of digital urban development in Denmark. Initially, Forma will be used for three urban development projects totalling around 200,000m2.  The agreement follows several months of testing, and the new digital tools will help…


  • Autodesk Introduces Forma, the next evolution of Spacemaker

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2023/PRNewswire/– Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today unveiled the first set of capabilities of Autodesk Forma, an industry cloud that will unify workflows across the teams that design, build and operate the built environment. Forma’s initial capabilities target the early-stage planning and design process with automations and AI-powered insights that simplify exploration…