Featured
Autodesk and Esri alliance
Discover how we can plan, design, build, and operate better, together.
Esri and Autodesk
Building our world with GIS and BIM
ArcGIS GeoBIM
Connect geospatial data with design and construction information to see projects and assets in context.
HDR: Thinking “3D first”
HDR leverages 3D tools to dynamically integrate data—saving time and driving engagement with decision-makers.
VolkerWessels: Innovating with GIS and BIM
VolkerWessels integrates BIM and GIS to exchange data, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve efficiency.
Arcadis: Using GIS and BIM to connect teams
Arcadis advances digital engineering for large-scale projects with BIM and GIS integration.
previous
Next
GIS and BIM integration
Esri and Autodesk joined forces to digitally transform how architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations teams collaborate by bringing together GIS and BIM. Seamlessly connect location information, design models, and collaborative workflows in one shared view for real-world context. Improve decisions and save time on project delivery and asset operations with a more connected way for teams to collaborate across disciplines.
Digital twin
Esri and Autodesk combine spatial intelligence and building information modeling to create a virtual representation of the real world, including natural and built environments. A digital twin helps your organization conduct what-if scenarios and collect data in one environment to support sustainability goals, digital transformation efforts, development of smart communities and cities, and more.
ArcGIS Basemaps
ArcGIS Basemaps serve as the geographic foundation for maps, apps, and analysis. With various ready-to-use styles and satellite imagery to choose from, these Esri-designed ArcGIS Basemaps are available at multiple scales and in more than 40 languages. Coming soon, ArcGIS Basemaps will be available to users of various Autodesk products.
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
Add real-world context to projects and designs by tapping into the foremost collection of authoritative, globally sourced geospatial content. ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World includes up-to-date maps and layers of terrain, soils, boundaries, and more. Coming soon, curated layers from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World will be available to users of various Autodesk products.
- HDR
- HNTB
- AECOM
It's an exciting time for the AEC industry as Esri and Autodesk's partnership deepens the integration of GIS and BIM. This alliance breaks traditional barriers, offering first-of-its-kind integration of Esri's global spatial analytics and Autodesk's infrastructure design tools. Together, they are revealing unparalleled possibilities, helping to redefine what is possible and enhancing the digital future of the AEC industry.
Cameron Schaefer
Transportation Digital Delivery and Data Acquisition Director, HDR
The Esri and Autodesk partnership equips designers of tomorrow's communities with capabilities that focus on integrating authoritative data critically important to our industry’s digital transformation. Project foundations built with GIS and BIM accelerate collaboration, streamline quality, and reduce design revisions. Integration without translation is here and we’re embracing it fully.
Darin Welch
Associate VP, Design, Geospatial and Community Intelligence, HNTB
I’m thrilled to learn of the Autodesk and Esri strategic partnership. I’m optimistic this will produce dynamic software synergies. The combined technology sets have strong potential to benefit our clients.
John Kizior
Global Director, Project Technologies, AECOM
Sustainable industry practices GIS and BIM
This ebook explains how the integration of GIS technology and BIM can support sustainable AEC industry practices from inception to project completion.
Resources
-
What is GIS?
Esri
GIS is a system that creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of geographic data.Learn more about GIS -
What is BIM?
Autodesk
BIM creates detailed digital representations transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.Learn more about BIM -
GIS and BIM resources
Esri and Autodesk
Discover tutorials, articles, and videos to support you with integrating GIS and BIM on projects.Access GIS and BIM resources
previous
Next
Frequently asked questions
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.
Updates on new offers will be posted to this site as they become available. If you have immediate questions, please contact your Esri or Autodesk client representative.
Contact us
Chat now
Begin a conversation online.
Send a message
Get an email response.
Give us a call
Talk over the phone.
(United States)