Category: Customer Stories


  • From runway to concourse: how early analysis lifts airport performance

    This blog post is based on the Autodesk University 2025 class: Leveraging Forma and its Extension Ecosystem for Airport Design. Watch the full session here. In this interview, Thesla Collier, Design Technology Manager at HNTB (pictured) shares how advanced tools unlock new opportunities to improve building performance to meet high sustainability goals. Based in the…


  • 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.…


  • Stantec case study: how to reduce embodied carbon in the schematic design phase 

    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. Early, informed insights during the design phase are crucial for achieving sustainable outcomes in architectural and urban planning projects. Leveraging advanced yet easy-to-use tools like Autodesk Forma not only…


  • How Gray Puksand centralizes early-stage workflows to overcome interoperability bottlenecks and meet deadlines efficiently

    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 summary Leading Australian architecture firm Gray Puksand integrates design and technology to deliver thoughtful spaces that prioritize people and the environment. Every project presents an opportunity to explore…


  • 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…


  • Small firms meet mighty ambitions: how adopting Forma Site Design helps them maximize resources and win bigger projects

    Executive summary* Boutique firm Scott Shields Architects boosts its operations through using new tools like Autodesk Forma Site Design that help them deliver efficient, sustainable projects while upping their capacity to tackle larger projects. * This strategic addition connects Forma Site Design–available from AEC Collection subscriptions–with Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud, allowing the team to move…


  • Stantec: Aligning architecture and engineering workflows with Forma, Revit and InfraWorks

    Discover how Stantec’s Joseph Huang, and Raghavendra Bhat combine the strengths of tools like Forma, Revit and InfraWorks and put them into action when designing infrastructure and renewable energy projects. This innovative process – which Joseph and Raghavendra presented in their popular class at Autodesk University 2024 – is a big win for aligning architecture and…


  • RSP uses Forma’s sustainability analyses to shape the design of healthy learning environments

    Executive summary* The global architecture and engineering design group RSP is renowned for its humanity-centered approach and looks for new ways of empowering its team to work more effectively in achieving this mission.*At RSP Singapore, the architecture team is streamlining its process of developing sustainability strategies and optimizing designs with the help of Autodesk Forma,…