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\"\"November 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of Autodesk\u2019s acquisition<\/a> of Norway-based generative design company, Spacemaker<\/a>. We saw great promise for Spacemaker\u2019s role in urban planning and design then and have even greater enthusiasm today for the future of Spacemaker and Autodesk together. Spacemaker\u2019s AI software reinvented early-stage site planning and design for real estate developers and architects, supercharging teams\u2019 abilities to perform feasibility studies and optimize site plans. We see Spacemaker as a key part of our platform vision for the AEC industries, with its cloud-based workflows connecting every stage of the building lifecycle from planning to operations. Spacemaker co-founder Carl Christensen leads Autodesk\u2019s Unified Design Group, driving our efforts to bring outcome-based design to the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries in a single platform. Carl and I recently sat down to reflect on the past year and where we\u2019re headed together. Here are some highlights from that conversation. <\/p>\n

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Amy: It\u2019s an understatement to say it\u2019s been a big year for you and your team. You\u2019ve delivered new features and become an essential voice in Autodesk\u2019s strategic vision. With all you have accomplished, can you share highlights of the past year?

\"Carl

Carl Christensen, co-founder of Spacemaker<\/p><\/div> Carl: This first year has really been about transitioning away from a standalone company to being a part of an impressive global company, while maintaining Spacemaker\u2019s nimble, creative, startup mentality. Autodesk encouraged us to maintain who we are\u2014the character of our company and team, which we appreciated. But manifesting change as a standalone company was extremely hard. With Autodesk\u2019s credibility and relationships with customers, we\u2019ve seen fantastic acceleration in how we drive change and rethink the way the industry works. I\u2019m also proud of some key product advancements like microclimate analysis<\/a>. The feedback we have received is encouraging. In fact, one of our valued Swedish architecture customers noted, \u201cWhen we now start a new project, it feels like something is missing when we don’t have Spacemaker.\u201d It\u2019s not just those who live in the world\u2019s hottest urban areas who care about outdoor thermal comfort levels. Developers and architects involved in community and urban planning recognize they need more tools to design buildings and communities that are more comfortable to live in, more sustainable, and more resilient in the face of climate change. Amy: Across our tools, we\u2019re partnering with customers to use data and insights to design and build more sustainably, including the places we work and play, and the communities in which we live. As an Autodesk company, Spacemaker continues to develop advanced tools<\/a> and I\u2019m excited to see how we can build in even more sustainability outcomes. Carl: The common mission of Spacemaker and Autodesk\u2014to solve some of the greatest challenges ahead of us all\u2014is the glue that has made our relationship work. And sustainability has always been a key focus for both of us. On the horizon, we have PV (photovoltaic) analysis. The goal is to help architects gauge solar panel potential with much less effort. We\u2019re testing it with customers and will roll it out more broadly as soon as we\u2019re certain the results are viable\u2014so far, the feedback from customers is positive and their guidance is helping to deliver a better tool. Amy: Let\u2019s talk about something we know some of our customers are asking: how will Spacemaker integrate with Revit? Spacemaker serves a need in the earliest stages of planning and design. The choices architects make in this phase affect the entire project. And the further along you are in a project, the more expensive problems are to fix, if you can fix them at all. So, how do you see these tools working together? Carl: Right now, architects use the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) integration to get their work done, but we want to make this easier. We\u2019re working on a real-time, high-quality integration with Revit and other Autodesk products in the near term. As you know, Amy, the integration of Revit and Spacemaker is just a sliver of what we have planned for how these products work together. Amy: Yeah, I\u2019m excited about a future where we aren\u2019t talking about whether files end in RVT or IFC. We will not be talking about files at all, in fact. Autodesk\u2019s long-term vision is a single platform that harnesses data to serve all AEC stakeholders, no matter their specific role or discipline. We see the cloud and Spacemaker as important parts of this vision. It may fundamentally change data management and collaboration at every stage of the building lifecycle. Carl: I want to take that thought a step further. This is about outcome-based design. To drive better outcomes, you must harness data as early in the building process as possible. Spacemaker is the starting point. Today, we are primarily serving urban planning, specifically providing vertical workflows for multi-family residential real estate. But we are building out services to support different verticals within the AEC because you cannot think about the built environment as just one plot of land, one building, one project. Apartments affect roads, which affect bridges, which affect other neighborhoods. Within different verticals and across all stakeholders\u2014from architects and engineers to municipalities, builders, and owners\u2014data will be connected in a single cloud environment. And when all that data is connected, we can connect people, processes, and insights in one platform. Amy: This is how we reduce the industry\u2019s blank slate problem. Historically, every project started from scratch. The wheel must be reinvented over and over. But, by creating this data loop, we can enable the ultimate in outcome-based design\u2014not just improving the design of a single building but improving how all buildings are built. Carl: This has been an exciting first year, and our entire team at Spacemaker is eager to see the progress we make over our next year together. Amy: We are excited too. We are thrilled to have you and the Spacemaker team on board with Autodesk and helping us to achieve our vision for the future of the built world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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