Seamless ACC–CMiC Integration for HDCC

Driving Unified Visibility, Reduced Manual Effort & Operational Efficiency


Client Overview


Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company, Inc. (HDCC) is one of Hawaii’s largest and most experienced construction firms, managing multiple high-value projects across the Hawaiian Islands and Guam. As HDCC strengthened its digital ecosystem—leveraging Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) and CMiC—it aimed to ensure both platforms worked together as a single, synchronized operational environment.


To achieve this, HDCC partnered with nCircle Tech to implement a seamless ACC–CMiC integration, enhancing operational efficiency, visibility, and data consistency across field and financial workflows.


What HDCC Aimed to Improve


Although HDCC was already using ACC for field operations and document management, and CMiC for financial and ERP workflows, both platforms operated independently. This resulted in the need to address the following challenges:


  1. Unified Visibility Across ACC & CMiC: HDCC sought a seamless way to view and trace project, cost, and approval data across both systems without switching environments or duplicating navigation.
  2. Reducing Multi-System Logins & Manual Touchpoints: Teams worked across ACC for construction workflows and in CMiC financial workflows. HDCC aimed to reduce extra logins, repetitive lookups, and manual cross-referencing.
  3. Leveraging the Strengths of Both Platforms: The goal was to maximize ACC’s project-side capabilities and CMiC’s financial structures together — ensuring data moved intelligently between the two.
  4. Enhancing Accessibility Through, Connected Records: HDCC wanted more visibility in Change Events, cost details, and associated documents between systems, creating a unified “single source of truth.”
  5. Preparing a Scalable Foundation for Future Automation: By building integrated workflows now, HDCC aimed to expand automation, introduce advanced analytics, and unlock the full potential of ACC and CMiC in the future


nCircle Tech’s Enabling Solution


nCircle Tech developed a secure, automated ACC–CMiC integration layer, tailored to HDCC’s operational needs, enabling enhanced capabilities across both platforms.


1. Real-Time, Bi-Directional Sync for Cost Events

The integration connects:

  • ACC Request for Information (RFIs) & related cost implications
  • Submittals
  • Cost Transactions

Whenever HDCC creates or updates a Record in CMiC, the system automatically:

  • Validates cost codes
  • Checks for duplicates
  • Formats data into ACC standards
  • Maps the event to the correct financial structure

Changes in ACC—status, approvals, values—sync back to CMiC instantly, ensuring both systems always reflect the same information.


2. Consolidated Status Visibility Inside ACC

A custom ACC module provides HDCC one-click access to:

  • CMiC posting state
  • Financial values
  • Cost categorization
  • Sync success/failure
  • Timestamp history & full audit logs

Teams no longer need to switch platforms to check financial progress.


3. Intelligent Duplicate Prevention

The integration eliminates double entries by checking:

  • Existing CMiC Change Events
  • Project IDs and cost code alignment
  • Event name & description similarities
  • Sync history and prior logs

This ensures clean, audit-ready financial records.


Key Capabilities Delivered


✔ Real-time ACC → CMiC sync for Record Updates

✔ CMiC → ACC Cost Transactions

✔ Deduplication logic to maintain data integrity

✔ Error-handling & retry automation

✔ Comprehensive audit logs for compliance


Outcome & Impact for HDCC


Improved Operational Efficiency

Teams now spend less time switching between ACC and CMiC or cross-checking information manually.


Unified Access to Key Information

Project teams have one-click visibility into project status, cost details, and approvals, eliminating the need to search across multiple systems. This reduction in information retrieval time further enhances overall efficiency.


Conclusion


Through nCircle Tech’s ACC–CMiC integration, HDCC has enhanced its capabilities in operational efficiency and system visibility. The integration:


  • Enhances operational efficiency by streamlining system access and minimizing repetitive actions
  • Ensures consistent alignment of project and financial data across ACC and CMiC
  • Provides a foundation for future automation and advanced digital workflows


This solution strengthens HDCC’s digital ecosystem and enables teams to focus more on project execution rather than administrative overhead.


About nCircle Tech


nCircle Tech specializes in construction technology integrations, cloud engineering, and automation. With deep expertise across ACC, Procore, CMiC, ERP platforms, and BIM workflows, nCircle enables ENR contractors, owners, and technology providers to build connected, intelligent, and scalable digital ecosystems.