Leading Canadian Architectural Firm Realizes Ideas for Sustainable Design With
                       Autodesk Revit Building Software

ATLANTA, Greenbuild Expo, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK) today announced that HIP Architects, an architectural firm based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has been awarded the first Autodesk Green Building Leadership Award for work in designing green buildings throughout western Canada. The Autodesk Green Building Leadership Award recognizes customers who have used Autodesk technology to create, manage and share green building designs that are innovative, energy efficient and incorporate the latest sustainable design techniques. To recognize the award winner, Autodesk will make a donation to a green building charity on behalf of HIP, and provide free passes to Autodesk University 2006.

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"HIP Architects has demonstrated it's industry leadership by adopting building information modeling (BIM) to more rapidly design green buildings," said Phil Bernstein, FAIA, vice president, Autodesk Building Solutions. "Autodesk is excited to recognize these achievements by presenting HIP with the first annual Autodesk Green Building Leadership Award."

HIP Architects standardized on Autodesk Revit Building for all projects throughout the firm in 2004, and to date has used the software to design several green buildings including the Hostelling International hostel in Jasper, Alberta, and the NEAT Environmental Education Center in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Revit Building mirrors the real world of architecture by letting architects and designers work on buildings and spaces holistically, rather than in terms of separate floor plans, sections and elevations. Using the 3D building model created in Revit Building has made it easy for HIP to present designs to clients in real time, which has helped build client confidence in each sustainable design solution created by the HIP team.

"We are deeply honored to be the first recipient of this award," said Allan Partridge, AAA, Principal, HIP Architects. "We applaud Autodesk for recognizing the importance of such leadership, and creating the right environment through Revit Building to enable, simplify and demystify sustainable design."

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Contact: Noah Cole of Autodesk, +1-415-547-2405, or noah.cole@autodesk.com.

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