About this event
For many solar developers, the transition from early-stage proposals to detailed engineering creates a "rework trap" that triggers costly delays and hidden costs. This session features Rebecca Burns, who leads Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Tech Partner Program, and Nova Sayadian, Vice President of Engineering at Radiance Solar, to demonstrate how Radiance Solar bypassed these bottlenecks by consolidating their entire design lifecycle within the AutoCAD ecosystem.
By integrating PVcase directly into their CAD environment, Radiance Solar eliminated the friction of multi-tool workflows, ensuring that a project's "source of truth" remains intact from initial site assessment to construction-ready drawings. Nova shares how this unified approach delivers a 30% time savings, allowing their team to handle complex commercial and utility-scale portfolios with surgical precision and significantly reduced overhead.
Key Learnings:
- Eliminate the "Rework Trap": Discover how consolidating design stages inside AutoCAD prevents the data loss and manual errors common in multi-tool workflows.
- Accelerate engineering timelines: See how starting designs in a native AutoCAD environment enables a 30% reduction in design time.
- Front-Load Project Accuracy: Master techniques for using PVcase early in the process to identify terrain and shading constraints before they become costly late-stage revisions.
- Automate for Scale: Identify which repetitive tasks, such as cabling, stringing and layout iterations can be automated to handle larger utility-scale portfolios without adding headcount
- Standardise Operational Success: Understand why a unified CAD-integrated workflow is becoming the industry benchmark for maintaining margins in a competitive EPC market.
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Guest speaker
Rebecca Burns Sustainability Tech Partner Program Lead @ AutodeskG
Rebecca Burns leads Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Tech Partner Program, where she works with technology companies building on the Autodesk Platform to help customers reach their Sustainable Design goals. She has a background in chemical engineering and spent nine years in manufacturing before joining Autodesk. Over the past five years, she’s supported customers in adopting platform technologies through technical enablement roles. Rebecca is passionate about practical solutions, cross-functional collaboration, and using technology to make a real-world impact
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Guest speaker
Nova Sayadian Vice President of Engineering @ Radiance SolarG
Nova Sayadian is the Vice President of Engineering at Radiance Solar, bringing over 40 years of leadership across C&I and utility-scale solar. A former hands-on designer with deep familiarity with AutoCAD-based workflows, Nova has spent decades navigating design-stage constraints. Since joining Radiance Solar, he has championed the unification of early and detailed design to eliminate rework and improve scalability.
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Guest speaker
Conrado LamasG
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Team member
Ben Willis Managing editor @ PV TechT
Ben Willis is the managing editor of PV Tech and the quarterly journal PV Tech Power. He has been covering the solar industry since 2012.
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