Autodesk Forma — Sold, Implemented and Supported by Accienta.

As of March 24, 2026, Autodesk Construction Cloud has been rebranded as Autodesk Forma. It is the same platform — the same tools, the same workflows, the same document management environment — with a new name that reflects Autodesk's broader AECO industry positioning. If your firm has existing ACC licences, they have automatically rolled into Forma-branded equivalents with no data migration, no workflow disruption and no changes to your existing project environments. If you are currently using BIM 360, you are on the predecessor platform and should be migrating to Forma — Accienta manages that migration including project data transfer, workflow reconfiguration and team retraining.

Yes — and the requirement is increasingly explicit in project briefs and employer information requirements. NEOM's digital delivery framework requires a Common Data Environment for all document management, BIM model sharing and project information delivery — and Autodesk Forma is the Autodesk-native CDE that meets those requirements. Saudi Aramco contractor packages specify digital document management requirements that Forma's transmittal and drawing register tools satisfy. UAE government infrastructure projects and developer-led programmes are increasingly specifying Forma or ACC as the project CDE in their employer information requirements. If your firm is tendering for these programmes with email-based document management and no CDE, you are not compliant with the information delivery requirements your client has specified.

BIM 360 was Autodesk's previous construction management platform, replaced by Autodesk Construction Cloud and now rebranded as Autodesk Forma. BIM 360 is no longer being developed — Autodesk has migrated all active development to the Forma platform. If your firm is still running on BIM 360, you are on a legacy platform that will not receive new features, and your workflows may be affected as Autodesk phases out BIM 360 support. Accienta manages BIM 360 to Forma migrations — auditing your existing BIM 360 project structure, transferring active project data, reconfiguring your workflows for the Forma environment and retraining your team so the migration does not disrupt live project delivery.

Yes — and for most GCC construction firms, Forma is a significant upgrade over the combination of SharePoint, email chains, WhatsApp document sharing and manual Excel drawing registers that most teams currently use. Forma provides version-controlled document management, transmittal workflows with read receipts, drawing register automation, revision control and a full audit trail of every document issue — all in one platform accessible from desktop and mobile. The critical difference from generic document management systems like SharePoint is that Forma is built specifically for construction project workflows — RFIs, submittals, punch lists, quality inspections — and connects directly to your BIM authoring tools without custom integration work.

Yes — Forma is Autodesk's native CDE and is designed to work with the full Autodesk AEC tool stack. Revit models publish directly to Forma's document management environment with version control and model viewer access. Civil 3D drawings and surface data can be published and shared through Forma's document workflows. Navisworks clash detection results upload to Forma's issue tracking system and can be linked to specific model elements for coordinated resolution. Accienta configures these integrations as part of the Forma deployment — so your design tools and your project management platform are connected from the first model issue, not treated as separate systems that your team has to manually keep in sync.

ISO 19650 requires that project information is managed through a Common Data Environment with controlled naming conventions, revision workflows, approval states and audit trails. Autodesk Forma is built to satisfy these requirements — but only if it is configured correctly for your project's information requirements. Accienta configures Forma with ISO 19650-aligned folder structures, document naming conventions, revision control workflows and approval state management so your document environment meets the CDE requirements your employer information requirements specify. On GCC projects where ISO 19650 compliance is required at tender stage, Accienta can provide documentation of your Forma configuration as evidence of CDE compliance for your BIM submission.

Yes — Autodesk Forma has a guest access and partner access model that allows subcontractors, external consultants and client teams to access specific project areas without requiring a full Forma licence. Accienta configures your Forma project with the correct permission structure for your contract arrangement — separating main contractor, subcontractor, consultant and client access, setting up document portals for each party and controlling which document sets each external party can view, upload or comment on. On GCC projects where your supply chain includes firms in multiple countries, Forma's cloud-based access model means every party works from the same live document set regardless of location — eliminating the file version conflicts that occur when documents are shared by email across time zones.

A standard Autodesk Forma deployment — covering workflow audit, project structure configuration, permission setup, RFI and submittal workflow build, BIM tool integration, field team mobile configuration and role-based training — typically takes five to eight business days depending on project complexity and the number of roles being trained. Accienta can configure a Forma environment for an urgent project start in as little as three business days for a focused deployment covering core document management and RFI workflows, with additional configuration delivered in parallel with the live project. Firms migrating from BIM 360 typically require an additional two to three days for data migration and workflow reconfiguration.

At project completion, your Autodesk Forma environment contains the full audit trail of every document issue, RFI response, submittal approval, site observation and quality inspection from the project — this is the as-built information record that clients, developers and government authorities increasingly require at handover on GCC projects. Accienta advises on handover document packaging within Forma, asset information delivery to facilities management teams and project data archiving so your completed project record is preserved in a structured, accessible format. For ongoing projects, Accienta runs post-project reviews to optimise your Forma configuration based on what worked and what didn't in live delivery — so each subsequent project runs on an improved environment.