Esri and Autodesk

Announced on November 15, 2017, the alliance between Esri and Autodesk helps to connect “Make Anything” with The Science of Where through more tightly integrated BIM and GIS workflows, enhancing how infrastructure assets are planned, designed, built, and operated. This alliance enables Esri and Autodesk to better deliver on the promise of helping customers imagine, design and create a sustainable, more resilient future.

Esri and Autodesk are committed to the development of more seamless exchange of spatial and attribute data typically captured in Esri’s GIS systems and the information from 3D BIM models in Autodesk’s design software.

With the integration of GIS and BIM, infrastructure projects—houses, schools, roads, inter-modal transit facilities, drainage, and energy networks, etc.—are no longer planned, designed, and built-in isolation of everything around it. Infrastructure assets can be better viewed in relation to how that asset fits and interacts with the surrounding ecosystem. More tightly connected GIS and BIM workflows aid stakeholders involved in planning and design to better understand how the natural and built environment connects with the new assets to be built.

The promise of more tightly integrating GIS and BIM is to empower AEC firms and project owners to focus not only on what to design and build, but also better understand the where and why, helping them to deliver more sustainable and resilient infrastructure through more economical, social, and environmentally responsible practices.

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