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ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
PRODUCT DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
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Autodesk
Excellence Awards
Autodesk Excellence Awards celebrate the people, projects, and technologies behind exceptional contributions to the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction; product design and manufacturing; and media and entertainment.
Architecture, Engineering
& Construction
We owe it all to innovators—those that create everything from homes to high rises to highways. For the past 10 years, the AEC Excellence Awards has highlighted these innovators. Now we take the time to look back and thank you for a decade of innovation, excellence, and transforming our world for the better.
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
Today’s design and manufacturing companies are pushing the boundaries of change, leading to extraordinary outcomes. The Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing group shares a vision with these customers who are exploring bold opportunities with technology. We congratulate this inspiring collection of innovators whose transformational changes are making a lasting impact on the world.
Product Design & Manufacturing
The Autodesk Media & Entertainment team works with customers who create innovative 3D art and design across design visualization, film/TV and VFX, and games industries. We’re excited to congratulate these inspiring artists who demonstrate visionary creative approaches, produce high-caliber work and who engage in active community participation.
Media & Entertainment
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Infrastructure Design
Transforming infrastructure design
With a growing world population, these innovative projects and teams demonstrated new ways of advancing BIM solutions by leveraging cloud and data capabilities to meet tomorrow’s ever-increasing resource and transportation challenges.
Discover 5 award-winning projects that responded stronger to ever-increasing social, economic, and environmental demands.
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Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
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Small Project
Designing better buildings
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These amazing projects from around the world are celebrated for their ingenuity and ability to adapt and deliver forward-thinking solutions in their time while still helping us build better futures today.
Celebrate the ingenuity of 5 award-winning projects from the last decade and discover their ability to evolve data and automation for better insights and outcomes.
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
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Small Project
Constructing for better outcomes
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With continued technological innovation happening across construction, these projects used new concepts and capabilities to connect multidisciplinary teams across the project lifecycle to build better, faster, and more sustainably.
Explore 5 award-winning projects that used technology to unify a cross-disciplinary approach to building.
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
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Amr Raafat
Vice President of VDC & Technology at Windover Construction
Meet the virtual design and construction innovator who brought a new approach to modular construction to transform the offsite design prefabrication processes.
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Wajdi Mereb
Chief Specialist at RTA
Dubai’s transportation leader is making the organization a fully intelligent and integrated provider of smart, agile solutions.
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Meet Zhibing
Zhibing Mao
Chief Engineer at China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. and President of China Construction Engineering Design Group
Championing BIM is how this innovator is driving the growth of smart cities through a focus on collaboration, and improved planning and project delivery.
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Small Project
KIA Design Center, Europe
Driving innovation as an industry leader, Kia Design Center, Europe transforms its approach with collaborative design and VR for dynamic and responsive visualization.
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H2GO Power
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Fueled by their mission to provide clean, reliable power from renewable resources, H2GO Power aims to reduce the aviation industry’s environmental footprint.
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Edera Safety
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Pivoting during the pandemic, Edera Safety adopts digital technologies for collaboration, innovation, and faster product development.
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Dar
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Dar reimagines the design and manufacturing process of large civil engineering structures, resulting in an AI-enabled “smart bridge.”
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Coral Maker
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With the world’s coral reefs in grave danger due to climate change, Coral Maker delivers an innovative, scalable approach to restoring them.
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Cortex Design
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Cortex Design delivers an intuitive rapid COVID-19 test that is simple to operate, inexpensive to manufacture at scale, and brings the accuracy of lab-based COVID-19 tests to the home.
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Ali Chenari
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Ali Chenari is an Art Director and 3D Illustrator based in Toronto, Canada, who’s experience in the animation industry spans over 18 years. Always a fan favorite, Ali was featured as AREA’s Artist of the Month in April of 2021 for his outstanding 3D work. His subject matter showcases whimsical characters of all shapes and sizes that underscore an unapparelled level of creativity.
AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
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Samiha Dhifaoui
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Samiha is a 3D Visualization Artist and a trailblazer in the Design Visualization community. She was featured as AREA Artist of the Month in August of 2021 and led industry talks and workshops for some of the biggest design viz events. She also takes the opportunity to give back by sharing her knowledge to emerging artists as an instructor.
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Eloi Andaluz Fullà
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Eloi is a Vancouver based FX-artist with over 15 years of experience spanning from architectural visualization, advertising, visual mappings, and VFX. He strives to give back to the community in more ways than one - he creates learning content for the community, actively engages on forums and provides feedback that pushes the boundaries of creative tools.
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
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AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
Introduction
ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
PRODUCT DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
submit your Story
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
Construction
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
Innovator of the Year
Infrastructure Design
Building Design
Construction
Innovator of the Year
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Meet Wajdi
Wajdi Mereb
Chief Specialist at RTA
Dubai’s transportation leader is making the organization a fully intelligent and integrated provider of smart, agile solutions.
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Meet Amr
Amr Raafat
Vice President of VDC & Technology at Windover Construction
Meet the virtual design and construction innovator who brought a new approach to modular construction to transform the offsite design prefabrication processes.
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Meet Zhibing
Zhibing Mao
Chief Engineer at China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. and President of China Construction Engineering Design Group
Championing BIM is how this innovator is driving the growth of smart cities through a focus on collaboration, and improved planning and project delivery.
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Meet Wajdi
Wajdi Mereb
Chief Specialist at RTA
Dubai’s transportation leader is making the organization a fully intelligent and integrated provider of smart, agile solutions.
Lorem ipsum do
Meet Amr
Amr Raafat
Vice President of VDC & Technology at Windover Construction
Meet the virtual design and construction innovator who brought a new approach to modular construction to transform the offsite design prefabrication processes.
Lorem ipsumd
Meet Zhibing
Zhibing Mao
Chief Engineer at China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. and President of China Construction Engineering Design Group
Championing BIM is how this innovator is driving the growth of smart cities through a focus on collaboration, and improved planning and project delivery.
Industry Disruptor
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Engineering the Impossible
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Digital Transformation
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Collaboration
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Making a Better World
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
Designing Through Crisis
Industry Disruptor
Engineering the Impossible
Digital Transformation
Industry Collaboration
Making a Better World
Designing Through Crisis
AREA Artist of the Year
AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
Design Visualization...
AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
AREA Artist of the Year
Design Visualization Community Leader
Creative Community Leader
