For AEC firms working in Autodesk Forma (ACC), or moving to it
We help your team organise its CDE in Forma and get everyone working in it, on one of your live projects, in three months.
Free, one hour. You get a preliminary plan.
Employees from these companies trusted us and joined our trainings:
The problems we work on
Every office has a different mix. The audit shows which ones are yours.
Project files are scattered across many places: some in your CDE in Forma, some on local servers, in email and on desktops. Your team is not sure where the current project data is, the data they can trust.
How we approach it
We agree with your team what lives in Forma and what may stay outside it. Models and drawings then link the current file in Forma, not a copy from a server or a desktop.
Documentation moves between project stakeholders all the time, and without clear, agreed rules for managing it, this often leads to costly errors. It ends in redesign, delays on site and legal disputes.
How we approach it
First we look at the whole flow of information on your project. We map each exchange of information between the different project teams and agree specific rules for each one: what is sent, by whom, to whom and how. This leaves little room for mistakes.
Models and drawings go to the shared folder in Forma before anyone checks them, so one team’s mistakes reach everyone.
How we approach it
We agree who checks and approves each model and drawing before it is shared, and set up these reviews in Forma.
Every project has its own folder structure and naming convention, so people search for the right data in several places.
How we approach it
Your team writes one office standard for folders, file names and a project template, so every project is set up the same way and people know where to look. You start from what you already have and test it on one live project.
Before and after
E6 System, a mechanical design office in Budapest, kept its project information in many places, from email to local servers. The team is now moving its projects into Forma step by step, and its day-to-day workflows increasingly follow a proper CDE process: one current version, clear statuses, less searching.
Ákos Kósa
Managing Director, E6 System
Before
“Our information was spread across many places: emails, chats and the office server.”
After
“Our active projects increasingly run from one place in Forma. We spend less time chasing the latest information, and we catch more issues before they reach site.”
Emails, chats, server → step by step into Forma
Dániel Slenker
BIM Coordinator, E6 System
Before
“I was building templates and training the team on my own, while learning ACC myself.”
After
“Ignacy built a six week plan around our real workflows and stayed along for the pilot to make sure it works in practice.”
Working alone → a six week plan and a live pilot
Already have Forma?
“Our software partner already trained us. What's different?”
Such training often shows where to click in the software, not how to use it well. It doesn't decide how to organise data and the flow of information on your projects. Here, your team makes those decisions with me and sets Forma up to follow them, so the know-how stays in your company.
“We have a standard. Nobody follows it.”
A standard written by one person stays on paper. Your team writes it together, with templates and material on how to bring people on board, and every month I check in your hub whether people really work that way.
“We don't have time for another implementation.”
You don't build anything on the side. Your team works on one of your live projects, so the changes go into work you deliver anyway. Your plan sets the order, and you choose the pace.
“Who in our team will do all this?”
Up to three people from your team, usually your BIM or digital manager with one or two colleagues. They don't do it alone: every week we meet live to go through what is done, what is stuck and what comes next.
How it works
We guide you step by step and build your team's in-house know-how, layer by layer.
One hour on a call. We learn what problems your team faces, how information moves through your office and your projects, and what goals your company wants to reach.
Your outcome: a preliminary plan, how I would solve these problems to get you to your goals, and in what order.
Every company works differently, so we start with a detailed audit. Within the first days your team fills in an audit form about how you work in your system: how your documents are structured, how information moves, and what standards and procedures you have.
Your outcome: a clear picture of how your company works today, your goals, the bottlenecks to tackle first, and the starting numbers we compare with at the end.
Where you are, where you want to be, and the route between them, week by week. The plan shows which parts of your information management to fix first, why, and what success looks like at each step. We go through it together, and you choose the pace.
Your outcome: an agreed plan and a dashboard of the measures we track from start to finish.
Three months of work on one of your live projects, with lessons and templates for each step of your plan. You are not alone with it: a live session every week, a forum for questions, and a monthly review of what has improved in your hub and what has not.
Your outcome: a live project running the way your plan describes, built by your own team.
At the end we look at your dashboard together: what was measured, what changed in how your team works in Forma, and what the change is worth based on your own figures.
Your outcome: proof in numbers that the new way of working is in place, and a clear next step for what is still missing.
Optional. We look at what works on your pilot project and turn those good practices into a template for your next projects, so new people and new projects start the same way.
Your outcome: one way of working that you can repeat on every project.
What you build
From how you work today to one live project you can measure.
Step 1
We map how your company works, agree a plan and choose the KPIs.
Step 2
Your team writes its own standards and sets Forma up to follow them.
Step 3
One live project runs the new way. You track it on a dashboard, fix what doesn't work, and get a template for your next projects.
Programme scope
Three months on one of your live projects, for up to three people from your team.
Your route from today to your goals, written after the audit. Each step says what to do, why it matters and what success looks like, so your team can check its own progress.
On our online platform you get many video lessons and materials to download: templates, documents and example files that help you put good practices in place. Your plan points to the lessons and materials you need:
Included
Worth 769 EUR, included at no extra cost
CDE ROI Accelerator puts order into your project information. Become BIM Coordinator teaches one person from your team what to do with the models inside it: coordination strategy, model checks, clash detection, issues and coordination meetings.
185 lessons, assignments and a certificate, with lifetime access.
Tools
No new platform to buy. The programme works in your own Forma hub and the tools your team uses every day.
Files, reviews, transmittals and issues in the hub you already pay for.
Forma files in Windows Explorer, synced and locked the right way.
Models link the current file in Forma, not a copy on the server.
Your dashboard on Forma data, in Insight or in Power BI if you use it.
Your client works in SharePoint, Aconex, ProjectWise or Procore? You don't have to leave them. We agree what goes where, and how files move between the systems.
Is it for you?
Your role doesn't matter. What matters is that you work in Forma and your team does the work, with my help.
Who runs the programme
Ignacy ŁozińskiBIM Information Manager / BIM Coordinator
Free diagnostic session
One hour on a call about your problems, your way of working and your goals. Afterwards you get a preliminary plan, whatever you decide.
Questions? Write to me at ignacy.lozinski@bimcorner.com.
FAQ
Every company pays the same fixed fee for up to three people. After the diagnostic session, you get a written proposal with the price.
Three months on one live project. Your plan sets goals you can reach in that time, and you choose the pace.
No. The programme also teaches Forma itself, from folders and permissions to reviews, transmittals and issues. The basic lessons are ready from day one.
Yes. If your team does its part and the agreed workflow isn't in place after three months, we continue for 30 more days at no cost. It gives you extra time, not a refund.
Yes. Your forms and reviews stay between your team and me, and nothing from your hub goes on screen in the weekly sessions without your decision.
Yes, and so is the preliminary plan. If the programme isn't the right fit for you, I'll tell you.
Free, one hour, on a call. You get a preliminary plan, whatever you decide. Questions? Write to me at ignacy.lozinski@bimcorner.com.
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