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    Five tips for learning Forma Site Design

    Author:  Daniel (Onyema) Udeze, Educational Consultant at Global eTraining With the accelerating pace of technological change today, AEC firms don’t want to risk being left behind. The most effective approach for helping teams adapt to disruptive technologies is to provide training in sync with these changes. Data shows that firms with a proactive approach to…


  • Accelerating site design to BIM with Forma, Finch, and Revit

    Autodesk Forma, 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. This blog post is adapted from the Autodesk University 2025 session: From Site Planning to BIM with AI: Accelerating Early-Stage Design with Finch and Forma Site Design. Watch it here.Read…


  • How Stantec used Forma Site Design’s sustainability analyses to improve building performance and patient wellbeing

    Stantec has leveraged Forma Site Design to fast-track the design of Dubai’s first integrated cancer hospital. Faced with a tight schedule and ambitious sustainability goals, Stantec’s global team of more than 100 collaborators delivered a high-performance, human-centered facility at speed. The team used Forma Site Design’s real-time environmental analyses, such as wind, sun, and embodied…


  • Environmental analysis

    Designing resilient communities: Arcadis’ data-driven approach with Forma and ArcGIS

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Our world is changing, and the way we design our environments much shift accordingly to meet new climate and societal demands. Having accessible context and environmental data from the…


  • How Drees & Sommer accelerates data center design with Forma Site Design

    Drees & Sommer, an international consulting firm specializing in construction, real estate, and infrastructure, has developed a fully cloud-based workflow using Autodesk Forma Site Design to confidently tackle the challenges of data center design. They’re complex projects involving tight deadlines and careful coordination between different disciplines to meet specific energy and spatial requirements and regulations.…


  • Introducing Forma Building Design: An easy-to-use detailed building design solution with automated design tools and integrated analyses 

    UPDATE: Forma Building Design has now launched! Read more here. At Autodesk University 2025, we are thrilled to unveil Forma Building Design – a pioneering cloud-based solution for schematic design that’s set to transform the building design landscape. As part of the Forma industry cloud, Forma Building Design empowers project leaders, CAD, and BIM architects…


  • How to start using AI for design storytelling

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Executive summaryThese are highlights from the 2024 Autodesk University Class hosted by Krzysztof Jedrzejewski (Principal Group Product Manager Autodesk Forma); Bill Allen (President, EvolveLAB); Ben Guler (Vice President, EvolveLAB). In…


  • Autodesk Forma meets ArcGIS: how integrating geographic data gives designers a decision-making edge

    Autodesk Forma, 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. The new ArcGIS for Autodesk Forma app combines Autodesk Forma’s intuitive planning, design, and analysis tools with powerful geographic information system (GIS) data from Esri’s ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS…


  • Terrain editing made easy with Forma Site Design

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Autodesk Forma is pleased to introduce the new Terrain Pad tool, now available under the Landscaping tool in Forma Site Design. This enhancement brings terrain editing closer to your…


  • SSOE Group: Improving sustainability outcomes for industrial projects with Autodesk Forma

    In this insightful interview, Ana Luisa Verduzco Aguirre and Dulce Nayree Lopez Parra, Architects at SSOE Group, discuss the challenges faced while working on industrial projects. Through a case study featuring an industrial manufacturing facility in Coahuila, Mexico, they explain how Autodesk Forma helped alleviate some of these challenges and enabled better sustainability outcomes. Comparing…