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Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, construction, manufacturing and entertainment software, developing a broad portfolio of design and make solutions.

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Meeting with Paulo Cunha (Member of the European Parliament) and #SustainablePublicAffairs

8 Dec 2025 · MFF - ECF

Response to European strategy for housing construction

12 Sept 2025

Europe faces an urgent need to increase the supply and affordability of housing while ensuring that new, repurposed, and renovated homes contribute to a sustainable, competitive, and resilient construction ecosystem. The European Commissions Housing Construction Strategy represents a historic opportunity to reshape the construction sector for the years to come by focusing on digitalization, innovation, and increased sectoral productivity. AUTODESK, as a global leader in software for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media, wholeheartedly welcomes this initiative and the opportunity to respond to the consultation. We are committed to supporting Europes ambitions by advancing technology adoption, fostering innovation, and building the digital skills required for a robust, future-ready construction sector.
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Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Sept 2025 · Green Tech

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Sept 2025 · Water

Meeting with Lucilla Sioli (Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

24 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on the EU AI strategy, including the AI Continent Action Plan and the development of the future Apply AI Strategy.

Meeting with Mirka Janda (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto)

23 Jun 2025 · AI for competitiveness and optimised resource use in the built environment and water management

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Laia Pinos Mataro (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and

12 Jun 2025 · Challenges and opportunities in Europe’s Water Sector

Meeting with Ann-Sofie Ronnlund (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

15 May 2025 · Artificial Intelligence innovation

Response to Evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives

6 Mar 2025

Autodesk, a global leader in design & make technology, welcomes the European Commissions call for input on the EU Public Procurement Directives. Autodesk is committed to ensuring digital solutions are leveraged for the EUs competitiveness and resilience and views public procurement as a powerful tool to drive the adoption of best practices and tools to achieve this. Digital tools help reduce costs, decarbonise infrastructure, allow for better decision-making throughout the value chain, improve health & safety on construction sites and protect the EUs cultural heritage. Public procurement has the potential to significantly accelerate the deployment of digital tools and the green transformation in the built environment, transportation infrastructure and water sectors.
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Response to European Water Resilience Strategy

3 Mar 2025

Autodesk, a global leader in design & make technology, welcomes the European Commissions call for evidence on the upcoming EU Water Resilience Strategy. As a global technology provider, Autodesk is committed to ensuring digital tools are leveraged for greater water resilience in the EU and for the competitiveness of the EU water sector. These technologies are already available and helping EU citizens and businesses addressing water-related challenges. They support decision-making in water and flood-risk management, improve the climate resilience of water infrastructure, and increase water efficiency. They also help lower costs, reduce water losses and increase operational efficiency. However, the deployment of digital tools is slow due to limited resources and incentives, a digital skills gap and the fragmentation of the sector. The Water Resilience Strategy is a crucial opportunity to address these challenges and ensure a more systematic use of digital tools where they are needed.
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Meeting with Jutta Paulus (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Environmental Bureau and

5 Feb 2025 · Water Resilience

Meeting with Axel Hellman (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

27 Jan 2025 · Water Resilience

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and #SustainablePublicAffairs

15 Jan 2025 · EU Water Policy

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Jan 2025 · European water policy and digital solutions

Meeting with Eva Maydell (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Sept 2024 · General Exchange

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jul 2024 · Green technologies

Response to Sustainable Products Initiative

22 Jun 2022

Autodesk, one of the global leaders in design and make technologies, welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and the opportunity to share its views on it (see attached document for full comment). The potential of digital transformation for the reduction of the negative environmental impacts of product manufacturing remains under-exploited in the EU today. We welcome the ambitions displayed in the proposal to leverage digital technologies in order to reach the EU climate goals, such as the creation of a Digital Product Passport. We recommend building on existing industry practices and standards for the DPP to ensure adoption and deployment. We also recommend including into the performance requirements criteria the use of advanced manufacturing technologies such as design software to improve choices made early in the product life cycle, using 3D modeling, simulation, and calculation of environmental impact.
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Meeting with Seán Kelly (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Alliance to Save Energy and

31 Mar 2022 · The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive - Stakeholder Event

Response to Revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU

28 Mar 2022

As a global leader in design and make for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Autodesk welcomes the proposal for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast and the opportunity for stakeholders to share their views. While we appreciate the recognition for the enabling role of digitalisation during the operation of a building, we call on the EU institutions to make this revision a transformative moment for the decarbonisation of buildings across their full life-cycle. Using digital technologies is the best way to accurately record, assess, simulate, measure and track carbon emissions over a building’s life-cycle. To deliver on the high ambitions of the Fit-for-55 package, strong incentives to use digital technologies are paramount. The potential of digitalisation for the greening of the EU building stock remains under-exploited in the EU today. The EPBD is a unique opportunity to leverage digital technologies to drive a more energy efficient built environment in the EU. We respectfully submit the following propositions: 1. The EPBD recast is currently focused mainly on the building’s operation. Yet, some of the most impactful choices to reduce carbon emissions and improve building sustainability occur during the design phase. We believe that the methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings (Article 4) and the provisions on new buildings (Article 7) should include recommendations to use technologies such as digital simulation and 3D modeling (BIM) to anticipate, analyse and optimise a building’s energy use. 2. The EPBD is an opportunity to encourage the use of digital technologies for buildings retrofits, thereby enabling a truly “deep renovation”. In addition to the physical evaluations of existing buildings, digital technologies provide advanced levels of assessment of the comparative benefits of retrofit options. We believe that the requirements for existing buildings undergoing major renovations (Article 8) as well as the indicators required in the buildings’ renovation plans to be developed by Member States (Article 4) should include recommendations to use technologies such as digital simulation and 3D modeling (BIM) to analyse renovation options and optimise deep renovation. 3. 3D models are not only a critical tool for planning and optimising high performance building solutions, but they are also a valuable data source for the implementation of Article 14 to ensure that owners, tenants, and managers fully understand the building, its design, and its system performance throughout the life of the asset. Following a renovation or construction of a new building, 3D models can be used to build a descriptive digital twin, bringing together all the data created about the project’s design, construction, and intended operational performance. The EPBD recast should be a basis for promoting and harmonizing the Digital Building Logbooks as well as connecting it with digital modelling technologies. 4. An ambitious approach to buildings’ decarbonisation needs to look at total carbon, including the carbon associated with building materials (i.e., embodied carbon). The proposal focuses mostly on operational carbon, while the renovation of large existing buildings will generate embodied carbon. Incentivising the measurement of the carbon footprint generated by the building materials selected for deep renovations is a contributing driver to greater environmental responsibility. We believe that Member States should be further encouraged to report on their efforts to measure and reduce embodied carbon in their National Building Renovation Plans (Article 3).
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Response to 2022 Strategic Foresight Report

17 Mar 2022

Autodesk welcomes the European Commission’s Strategic Foresight Report 2022 and its interest in better understanding the twinning of the green and the digital transitions. Here we focus on the sector we know best, the construction sector, where the green and digital transitions will undoubtedly mutually reinforce each other. For the European Commission to live up to the ambitions of the Green Deal in general and, the Renovation Wave in particular, requirements and incentives to use digital technologies are paramount. Digitalization can be transformative of a whole ecosystem, an enabler to achieve a better built environment. In spite of its significant potential for the greening of the EU building stock, it remains under-exploited in the EU building sector. Integrating digital technologies is a strategy for the long term. Digital technologies (e.g., smart 3D models) enable stakeholders to design and plan high-performance buildings. It avoids quick and cheap renovation of buildings that will not last and will require more renovation on the same buildings, which would mean more cost and more GHG emissions. Using digital tools all along the renovation process can contribute significantly to its cost-efficiency and provide an even more sustainable outcome. Evaluating both existing conditions and potential renovation solutions with more advanced technology will enable deep renovation and re-design optimization to be realized. Digital also supports factor screening across distinct areas that contribute to the energy performance of buildings, helping teams uncover the interventions or areas for investment with the highest impact. The use of digital technologies in the construction sector means a better collection and tracking of data related to the carbon footprint of buildings across their entire life cycle. To improve the energy performance of EU buildings, we need to measure it. We cannot measure without data and technologies to obtain and track those data. Another great potential of digital lays in the cooperation between stakeholders (industry, academia and civil society) and in the possibility to connect and transfer knowledge across sectors. The tech industry can also help connect public procurement procedures, or e-permits, to specific products and solutions. Digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (e.g., smart sensors and meters) can implement energy management solutions not only for individual buildings, but at a larger scale – across municipalities and power grids, amplifying the savings. Yet, just like for any industry, there is a mental barrier when operating the digital transformation of the construction sector, which is, in addition, largely fragmented. The public sector plays a key role in reducing this mental barrier and supporting the uptake of digital technologies, by disseminating best practices, creating funding schemes and requiring their use in projects. It is particularly important to raise awareness (in public and private sector) about the potential of the available technologies towards all stakeholders, even small ones. The range of technologies is broad, and it is not reserved for large companies. We strongly recommend that the Commission develop a clear roadmap for the uptake of digital technologies, for every industrial sector, in particular the construction sector that is responsible for about 40% of the EU's energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy, to support the green transition. For more information, we invite you to read DIGITALEUROPE's position paper ‘Digital Action = Climate Action: 8 ideas to accelerate the twin transition’: https://www.digitaleurope.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DIGITALEUROPE_Digital-action-Climate-action.pdf. Autodesk, together with the other members, participated in the drafting and provided concrete examples of the connection between Digital and Green transitions.
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Response to Revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU

22 Mar 2021

AUTODESK welcomes the opportunity to provide input regarding the revision of the Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) and shares the Commission’s view that decarbonization of the building sector is vital to deliver on the EU’s climate objectives. The global pandemic and today’s environmental and technology challenges have driven businesses and consumers alike to fundamentally rethink how we design, make and use buildings. It has created unprecedented opportunities, using the right tools and expertise to do more, better, with less: less resources, less energy, less carbon, less time, less money. We see the revision of the EPBD as a major vehicle to deliver on the new objectives set up by the Commission in the Renovation Wave and therefore to advance the digital transformation of construction, manufacturing and production, to enable cloud and data-driven business models and to promote sustainability in the built environment. This is coherent the Commission’s approach to tackle the “twin challenges” (green and digital). Please find attached our short contribution, providing concrete examples of how the use of digital tools can contribute to energy performance in the built environment.
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