{"id":59797,"date":"2026-09-15T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/?post_type=news&p=59797"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:02:07","slug":"autodesk-forma-ai-aec-connected-workflows-2026","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/news\/autodesk-forma-ai-aec-connected-workflows-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"How Autodesk Forma and AI are advancing a more connected future for AEC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 <\/span>The AEC industry is being asked to deliver more today than ever before. Our communities need more housing, resilient infrastructure, and a more sustainable built environment. Projects are getting increasingly complex, and experienced teams are already stretched. That makes capacity one of the industry\u2019s defining challenges.<\/div>\n

AI can help create that capacity, but the built world sets a high bar. A bar that commodity AI, trained on the open internet, can’t clear. AI for the built environment needs the right data, project context, and industry expertise to understand the site, design intent, schedule, requirements, and decisions that shape a project, because those decisions eventually become the roads, schools, hospitals, and workplaces people depend on every day. In the Design and Make industries, oftentimes, \u201cprobably right\u201d is still wrong.  <\/span>BIM transformed AEC by giving teams a digital representation of the built environment. As the industry evolves, we have the opportunity to extend the value of that model and its data by connecting the information, decisions, and context around it, so AI can better understand the project and help teams work across planning, design, construction, and operations. When that context carries forward, teams have more time to focus on the decisions ahead, and AI has a more trusted foundation to support their work.\u00a0 <\/span>That continuity is what makes project intelligence possible, giving teams and AI a clearer understanding of the information and decisions shaping a project. That\u2019s why we are building Autodesk Forma<\/a> as the end-to-end industry cloud for AEC, bringing connected data, deeper collaboration, and more outcome-focused ways of working across the lifecycle. At AU26, we\u2019re introducing new capabilities that help customers spend less time rebuilding context and more time moving projects forward.<\/p>\n

Bringing real-world context into planning and design<\/h3>\n

One message I hear consistently from customers is that every building project is also a civil project. Roads, utilities, terrain, and subsurface conditions shape what can be designed and built, so bringing that context into the project earlier gives architects and engineers more room to evaluate options before changes become expensive.  <\/span>Autodesk is making a significant investment in infrastructure by connecting civil engineering more directly to Forma. Civil 3D will become our newest Forma Connected Client<\/a><\/strong>, enabling referenced-based interoperability with Forma and Revit so planners, architects, and civil engineers can work from shared project context. Designers can bring Civil 3D data into Forma as a starting point for planning and building design, while civil engineers can continue using the detailed workflows they rely on, helping teams maintain project context more consistently and reducing the need to rebuild information as projects advance.  <\/span>We\u2019re also excited to announce Forma Street Design<\/a>, a new solution that civil engineers and transportation planners can use to shape urban streets during early-stage design. Explore lane configurations and intersections within real-world context, design in 2D plan and section in sync, and test turning movements with vehicle tracking. Teams can explore changes live with stakeholders, and then carry the design, without rework, directly into Civil 3D for detailed engineering. We are planning a beta and invite customers to join the waitlist here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n