Category: Customer Stories

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…

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…

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…

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…

“Digital support for urban development improves the process and dialogue with stakeholders. When everyone sees how and why different solutions affect the environment, we can have more constructive conversations and make better decisions.”   These words belong to Oskar Berglund, ​​Land Development Engineer at the Swedish municipality of Malmö who is leading the detailed planning of…

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…

The three-story structure at 311 Third St. was built in 1920 and has been home to various businesses. In 1984, architects David Lake and Ted Flato established their firm on the second floor of this historic building and ever since they have expanded their workspace steadily to take over the entire structure. They soon got…

An empty plot of land in West Oakland, California, will soon transform into The Phoenix that will consist of 316 affordable and sustainable homes. MBH architects, Factory_OS and Autodesk have teamed up, leveraging AI and other new technology and materials, to ensure that this project will be built at about half the cost, time, and carbon…

Executive summary * Japan’s largest architectural firm Nikken Sekkei is accelerating its efforts to lower the environmental impact of its projects, recognizing that its architectural designs ‘are expected to account for nearly 4%’ of greenhouse gas emissions from Japan’s commercial and residential sectors.  * With the new and evolving Rhino + Forma integration, the team sees potential in…