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Autodesk Is Helping Make Sustainable Design Easier and More Efficient

Autodesk is working with the world’s leading architects, engineers, and product designers to drive awareness and increase adoption of sustainable design principles. By providing software that can be used to predict a design’s performance, we can help customers incorporate sustainable design principles into their practice, contributing to a cleaner and healthier environment.

Autodesk’s software helps make sustainable design easier and more efficient across industries. The benefits include

Substantial reductions of material waste
Increased energy efficiency
More accurate evaluation of project lifecycles
Significant reduction of time, resources, and costs necessary to create truly sustainable buildings and products

Wind Turbine design based on QuietRevolution

Autodesk Ecotect Analysis
Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis green building software is a comprehensive sustainable analysis tool that delivers a wide range of simulation and analysis functionality through desktop and web-service* platforms. Powerful web-based whole-building energy, water, and carbon analysis capabilities converge with desktop tools to conduct detailed environmental simulations and visualize results.

Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk® Inventor® software is the foundation for Digital Prototyping, producing an accurate 3D model that validates the form, fit, and function of a design before it is built. Inventor’s accurate 3D models facilitate sustainability by helping customers predict a design’s real-world performance, optimize energy consumption, and minimize manufacturing waste.

Architectural design by HOK.

Autodesk Revit
Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), the Revit® applications work the way architects, structural, and MEP designers think while helping ensure the creation of accurate, coordinated design information. Through analysis of materials, quantities, energy use, and lighting in a virtual BIM, designers create real-world sustainable performance.

Architectural design by HOK, photographed by Cesar Rubio.

Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk® 3ds Max® software provides the advanced modeling and animation toolset to handle the most challenging architectural, engineering, and design projects. Autodesk 3ds Max is a great tool for sustainable design because of simulation features like advanced photometric lighting, that allow users to reduce overall energy requirements by seeing how natural and artificial light is distributed in a space.

AutoCAD Civil 3D
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is an industry-proven civil engineering solution that delivers the power to complete nearly any project faster. Surfaces, cross sections, profiles, annotation, and more are dynamically linked, making it quicker and easier to evaluate multiple alternatives, make smarter and more sustainable decisions, and output up-to-date plans.

AutoCAD Map 3D
AutoCAD® Map® 3D software, the leading platform for creating and editing spatial data, delivers practical mapping functionality to integrate CAD and geospatial information. AutoCAD Map 3D helps governments and businesses develop and maintain eco-friendly cities and power utilities, as well as support the protection of earth’s natural resources.

Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise
Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise software is a powerful mapping platform for delivering CAD and GIS information quickly, easily, and cost-effectively via the web. Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise delivers valuable spatial data and analysis in rich Web 2.0 mapping sites, improving communications internally, in the field, and with customers. As a result, businesses and government agencies can make smarter more sustainable decisions about resources and infrastructure assets.

Autodesk Buzzsaw and Autodesk Constructware
Autodesk Collaborative Project Management solutions, Autodesk® Buzzsaw® and Autodesk® Constructware®, allow companies to dramatically reduce paper waste, shipping, and energy consumption by centralizing digital design and construction project management processes.