Forma Design Collaboration — Sold, Implemented and Supported by Accienta.

As of March 2026, BIM Collaborate Pro has been rebranded as Forma Design Collaboration — it is the same platform with the same tools, the same cloud worksharing capabilities, the same model coordination environment and the same CDE. If your firm has existing BIM Collaborate Pro licences, they have automatically rolled into Forma Design Collaboration equivalents with no data migration and no disruption to active projects. The rebrand is part of Autodesk's broader consolidation of its construction and design tools under the Forma brand. If you are currently evaluating BIM Collaborate Pro, you are evaluating Forma Design Collaboration — the product page, the licence name and the interface branding have changed, but the underlying platform capability is identical and continues to develop under the Forma name.

Yes — but only if it is configured correctly. Forma Design Collaboration has the technical capability to satisfy ISO 19650 CDE requirements — controlled document states, naming convention enforcement, revision workflows and audit trail — but a standard installation contains none of this configuration. Accienta configures your Forma Design Collaboration CDE to ISO 19650 requirements — work-in-progress, shared, published and archived states, folder structures aligned to your information delivery milestones, naming conventions matched to your BEP and approval workflows that route model issues through the correct review chain. On NEOM, Saudi Aramco and UAE developer projects where ISO 19650 compliance is audited at design stage gates, an incorrectly configured CDE will fail your employer's information audit and require costly restructuring mid-project. Accienta gets the configuration right before your first model is uploaded.

Forma Design Collaboration includes Autodesk's cloud-based model coordination tools — the same clash detection engine as Navisworks, running in the cloud against your federated Revit models without requiring local file federation. Your BIM coordinator sets up clash detection rule sets between discipline models — architecture versus structure, MEP versus structure, MEP versus architecture — and runs clash detection on a weekly schedule. Results appear in a shared clash report that assigns clashes to the responsible discipline lead, tracks resolution progress and maintains an audit trail of every clash from detection through to sign-off. Accienta configures your clash detection rules, grouping and filtering settings and assignment workflows before your first coordination run — so your team runs productive clash meetings from day one rather than spending the first month configuring the tool.

Yes — this is one of the primary reasons GCC design firms use Forma Design Collaboration. Cloud worksharing allows multiple Revit users to work on the same central file simultaneously from different locations — UAE, Saudi Arabia, international offices — without the VPN dependencies, server performance issues and file corruption risks that come with traditional server-based worksharing. Accienta configures your cloud worksharing environment — migrating or setting up cloud-hosted central files, configuring workset structures by discipline and zone, establishing shared coordinate systems and setting up access permissions by project role. Done correctly, cloud worksharing eliminates the bottleneck of a single Revit user working on a file at a time and enables distributed design teams to deliver GCC projects with the speed that programme timelines on NEOM, Vision 2030 and UAE developer projects demand.

Yes — Forma Design Collaboration supports multi-company access with controlled permission levels, allowing external consultants, specialist subcontractors and client review teams to access specific model sets without requiring a full Forma licence for each external participant. Accienta configures your multi-firm access structure — separate model access for each discipline consultant, client view-only access for design review, specialist subcontractor coordination model access for fabrication coordination and permission controls that prevent each party from accessing model data outside their project scope. On GCC design programmes where the design team spans multiple countries and firms, this controlled multi-party access model is what makes federated BIM coordination practically deliverable.

Autodesk Forma — formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud — is the project management, document control and field delivery platform used by contractors, project managers and document controllers to manage construction delivery. Forma Design Collaboration — formerly BIM Collaborate Pro — is the design and BIM coordination platform used by architects, engineers and BIM managers to coordinate design models, run clash detection and manage the Common Data Environment during the design phase. The two platforms serve different project phases and different user roles — Forma handles construction delivery, Forma Design Collaboration handles design coordination. On BIM-mandated GCC projects, both are typically required — Design Collaboration for the design team's coordination environment and Forma for the construction team's document management and field delivery. Accienta deploys and configures both.

Yes — NEOM's digital delivery framework requires ISO 19650-compliant BIM coordination with a cloud-based CDE, and Forma Design Collaboration is the Autodesk-native platform that meets these requirements. Saudi Vision 2030 mega-programmes — Red Sea Global, Diriyah Gate, Qiddiya and NEOM — all specify BIM coordination requirements in their employer information requirements that demand cloud-based model coordination and ISO 19650 CDE compliance. UAE developer programmes — Emaar, Aldar, Meraas and government infrastructure — are increasingly specifying BIM Collaborate Pro or Forma Design Collaboration as the design coordination platform in their BIM Execution Plan templates. If your firm is tendering for these programmes without a configured Design Collaboration environment and an ISO 19650-compliant CDE, you are not able to meet the BIM information delivery requirements your potential client will audit at prequalification and design stage gate.

A standard Forma Design Collaboration deployment — covering BIM and coordination audit, ISO 19650 CDE configuration, cloud worksharing setup, clash detection rule configuration, multi-firm access setup and discipline-specific training — typically takes six to ten business days depending on the number of disciplines being configured and the complexity of your ISO 19650 information requirements. Accienta can deploy a focused Forma Design Collaboration environment for an urgent project start in as little as three business days — covering core CDE structure, cloud worksharing and basic clash detection — with additional configuration delivered in parallel with the live design programme. Firms migrating from BIM Collaborate Pro or restructuring an incorrectly configured existing environment typically require four to six days of reconfiguration and retraining.