We presented at the Autodesk Professional Forum
- June 23, 2023
The event provided construction and engineering industry players with insights into Autodesk-branded technology innovations that will shape – or are already dominating – the future of design and manufacturing. Following the plenary presentations, the Forum was divided into two sessions (Construction & GIS, Mechanical Engineering). Our article is based on the first of these.
The event was opened by Balázs Sabathiel (HungaroCAD and Arkance Systems, CEO). In his presentation, he focused on the importance of digitalization in the construction industry, with some very interesting and striking charts from the European Investment Bank’s Digitalisation in Europe 2022-2023 survey.
The study showed, among other things, that despite Covid-19 and inefficiencies, construction companies have still invested the least in digitisation in recent years. Hungary is also a laggard in this respect: another graph shows that, as in Romania, the level of digitization of municipalities in Hungary is extremely low and we are also far behind all European countries in terms of the share of digitized companies.
The above was followed by Patrik Minks, Autodesk Territory Sales Manager, who presented the results of Autodesk’s State of Design and Make survey conducted over the past few months. Among many other things, this clearly showed that companies that have put more emphasis on digitalization have performed better over the past 3 years – and this performance gap is set to widen in the future.
As a result, he led the expansion/transformation of services, which will be the Autodesk Design and Make platform, which in our case means that they will start building digital processes from the beginning of the construction value chain and then plan to take this further into all elements of the lifecycle.
As a first step, the FormIt application has been migrated to Construction Cloud and the project planning phase, concept design, and budget estimation process are combined with site analysis. This is the interface called Forma, which is already available in the AEC collection.
After Autodesk, Béla Szivák, Digital Development Manager of Paulinyi & Partners, presented a proprietary application using PowerBI and Autodesk Construction Cloud, which analyzed the cost estimation and return on investment of real estate developments.
Abrazív Ltd., a technology design company based in Kecskemét, Hungary, designs feed mixing plants. The presentation by György Misits, Chief Engineer, was refreshing – the company, which has been going through every step of 3D and BIM technology virtually alone since 1999, uses almost every BIM technology available today (model building, branch coordination, production support, collision analysis, scan2BIM, droning), and is currently experimenting with AR technology.
Afterward, 3dhome founder Peter Kaiser presented Autodesk’s visual design toolkit, highlighting, in particular, the Twinmotion processes and their related training. Not to be neglected is the information that the current visualization content libraries that exist on several platforms will be merged into a single marketplace.
Two BIM managers from KÉSZ Metaltech, Ildikó Trick and Gábor György, presented a case study of their design-build-site process, built on Autodesk Construction Cloud and Assemble tools.
Gábor Schnierer, civil engineer and Revit application developer presented Revit’s capabilities in the field of reinforced concrete structures. Progress can be seen (in the presentation he started with the 2008 version), and with continuous improvement, a reinforcement plan and iron list “common in Hungary” can be slowly produced. The developments of the next years can be expected e.g. in Revit’s analytical engine(s), which certainly sounds interesting.
Dávid Lovász, BIM Manager of BuildEXT, presented the CRE Awards winning ACADEMIA office building project. In a case study entitled “The power of a living BIM model”, he showed how the BIM model created as part of a project involving lobby renovation, mechanical upgrades, and test fit design can be used to design future tenant fit-outs. He also discussed the role of BIM-based item budgeting and model-based construction tracking, presenting a step-by-step workflow based on Revit.
Kathy Dávid (Colas Hungária, BIM chief engineer) presented a roadmap of the software and procedures used in the infrastructure department of COLAS. Road and bridge construction works with a very specific set of tools, but you can see that there are 3D and BIM tools for many things.
The last two presentations were given by colleagues from Arkance Systems HU. Róbert Csevernák spoke about the TwiGIS platform, a well-visualized, layered data, design and model repository. Navigate on a map to access the uploaded plans or model files (in IFC format) for a given area (plot). The system is also operational, available on PC and mobile devices.
The last presentation was given by Márk Pálinkás, who talked about the methods used to get into the data content of a file and extract additional useful information and data for further operations. This enables them to complete assignments where the existing pool of plans cannot immediately provide relevant answers to the questions that arise, but information can still be extracted from the internal parts, making the task feasible.
The detailed program can be found on the HungaroCAD website, more photos can be found on the company’s Facebook post.