Sabrina Buquoy’s Post

Back from an intense few days at Autodesk University in Nashville — and still processing everything I heard, saw, and learned. 👉 AI truly took center stage this year, woven into almost every session: from design automation to project delivery and sustainable infrastructure. Exciting, but also a reminder that adoption will only succeed if it solves real pain points for engineers and project managers. 👉 At the Transportation Summit (thank you Guillaume Joubert and McKenzie Price), I saw concrete examples of how data and digital tools are already enhancing infrastructure execution — not abstract visions, but real projects moving the needle. 👉 Our own session with Poul Hededal and Jon Gunnar Hilmarsson (from Ramboll), along with my colleague Renaud de Montaignac, showed how Ramboll is embedding sustainability into infrastructure projects at scale. The impact? - 90% less time spent delivering CO₂ assessments - Consistency of measurement across teams and geographies - Delivered carbon reductions, backed by transparent dashboards 👉 A particularly eye-opening session from Marta Bouchard (Autodesk + WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development) revealed up to 34% variation in embodied carbon results across firms assessing the same BIM model. A powerful reminder that small differences in methodology compound into major discrepancies, and why we need greater alignment across tools, frameworks, and policy. At ORIS Materials Intelligence we’re working to make carbon assessments consistent, transparent, and comparable. Big thanks to the Autodesk Sustainability Tech Partner Program team (Rebecca B., Zoé Bezpalko, Zach Postone, AICP) — your commitment to sustainability is helping push this industry forward! PS: I have to say I didn’t expect Nashville to be that cool 🎶🌆 🤜 Act now for sustainable infrastructure.