Autodesk Eduction Community

What is Autodesk’s interest in Sustainable Design?

Autodesk products help to shape much of the built world—from buildings, roads, utilities, and entire cities, to cars, electronics, packaging, and shoes. Our vision is to help those who create the built world—architects, designers, and engineers—by making sustainable design easier and more accessible, with better tools, and better information.

For more on Autodesk’s commitment to sustainability and Autodesk products for sustainable design, see our Sustainable Design Center.

For a quick look at what our software can enable, check out the video below.

Why did we create Autodesk Sustainability Workshop?

Students and young professionals are paving the way to new design and engineering practice, solving 21st century problems with clean technologies and new approaches to engineering and design.

In our work with students and professors, we learned that there is a greater need to integrate sustainability and design into  engineering curricula. We created Sustainability Workshop to make it easy and accessible for students to learn the broader context of how to usesustainability in their profession, and enable them to develop strategies to incorporate sustainability considerations into their designs and design process.

Who is this site for?

This site is geared toward post-secondary architecture, engineering and design students, but the content is free and accessible to anyone. We hope that it will also be useful to professors, professionals, graduate students, and high school students. The site is currently only available in English.

What will I find on the Sustainability Workshop?

The Sustainability Workshop offers:

• Strategies that convey the principles of sustainable design through videos and presentations
• Tutorials that show you how to put those concepts into practice, using Autodesk tools
• Case studies, Data sets, and other resources that provide more depth, examples, and context.

We’ve structured the site so that you can use these resources to teach yourself about sustainable design concepts. Information is categorized based on broad sustainable design subject areas.

How can I get involved?

If you’re a student, professor, or professional working to advance the practice of sustainable design, we want to highlight your work on the Sustainability Workshop. We’re also interested in your comments, suggestions for new resources, questions, and feedback. If you’d like to get in touch, contact us at ecoworkshop@autodesk.com or leave us a note on Twitter @ecoworkshop.

How can I access Autodesk software?

Free Autodesk software is available to students and faculty for download from the Autodesk Education Community. Simply join the Community and you’ll have access to the same, full version Autodesk software that over 9 million designers, engineers and digital artists are using.

How can I download the dataset files?

Datasets are available to any students or faculty who is a member of the Autodesk Education Community. Join the Community today