• 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…

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  • What’s New in Autodesk Forma – January 2024 Update

    Editor’s note: You can watch the previous on-demand version of our product update webinar for fall 2023 here. Hello again! It’s Jesper from the Forma team. I did an okay enough job writing about product updates last time, so I was allowed back for another update! We did promise you an update on updates every…

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  • Dynamo x Forma: Exploring the incredible opportunities

    Having recently announced our integration with Dynamo, we sat down with Zach Kron, Product Management Lead for Forma, and Sol Amour, Senior Product Manager at Dynamo to explore the many exciting opportunities for Forma users. Dynamo can significantly enhance Forma’s capabilities, enabling you to explore a broader range of design options, craft complex geometries, enhance…

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  • Power up your design with the Dynamo Player Extension (BETA)

    Architects! 2024 is a bearer of great news! The Dynamo Player extension for Forma BETA is now available to supercharge your computational design workflows and push the boundaries of your design possibilities. Forget repetitive tasks and data silos – Forma just got a serious power-up. What is Dynamo Player? It’s the missing link between Forma’s…

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  • Site Context in Revit via Forma 

    Understanding and documenting a site’s existing conditions is a critical first step in the early stages of conceptual design. It’s essential for ensuring that your design solution is not only sustainable but also contextually sensitive and relevant. Autodesk Forma steps in here as a pivotal tool, making the gathering of contextual site data during these…

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  • Living the Dream: Lake|Flato’s adaptive reuse project to repurpose their 100-year-old workspace 

    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…

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  • How Project Phoenix fulfils their sustainability and business goals

    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…

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  • Advancing AI in Autodesk’s AEC software

    At Autodesk, we’ve always recognized the transformative power of AI and have been investing in it for the past decade. Specifically for the AEC industry, our advancements in AI are continuously helping customers tackle challenges and harness new opportunities.  In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how AI is being integrated and advanced in…

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  • Nikken Sekkei: “The idea is to find more ways to help us achieve our sustainability goals.”

    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…

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  • Making sustainable design more accessible for architects at Arcadis

    Executive summary * A global leader in design and engineering, Arcadis is advancing its sustainability ambitions to become a net zero company by 2035. Doubling down on these efforts demands new ways for architects to integrate and scale up sustainable design in every project and navigate the increasing complexity of the built environment. * As such, the…

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