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Newforma WoW: Webinars on Wednesdays

Join us for a Webinar featuring Newforma solutions for AEC project information management (PIM)

Newforma "Webinars on Wednesdays" product demonstrationsDiscover eye-opening ways to manage your work more efficiently and effectively. Join us for Newforma WoW: Webinars on Wednesdays. They demonstrate the many ways Newforma software for AEC project information management (PIM) makes you, your team and your firm more productive and profitable, while reducing your exposure to risk.
  • All webinars are at noon Eastern Daylight time (-4 GMT).
  • Webinars last 30 minutes to one hour.
  • You will have opportunities to ask questions.
  • There is no charge to attend.

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PAST WEBINARS

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 Newforma Punch List tablet app

Powerful punch lists with Newforma Punch List tablet app

Newforma Punch List – a tablet app for punch list creation and management – is a component of Newforma® Contract Management software for project information management. It’s for architects, engineers, general contractors and construction managers who want to employ tablet technology to make punch list creation and communication faster, clearer and easier to manage. This free webinar shows you how.
 

 Newforma Project Analyzer

Bring your Vision into focus with Newforma Project Analyzer

Architecture and engineering project managers and firm principals use Newforma Project Analyzer to visualize what-if scenarios concerning project scope, budget, schedule, staffing and billing. This webinar demonstrates how Newforma Project Analyzer encourages the development of standard project management and reporting processes across the office or the entire firm, increasing transparency, reducing risk and increasing profitability.

Knowledge-Based Design at HGA

Rising from the dead files: managing archived projects

When a project is closed, is that knowledge and experience lost to the firm? Guest presenter Kurt Johnson shows how integrated architecture, engineering and master planning firm HGA informs its work with the cumulative knowledge of all of its projects. In addition to showing you how Newforma Project Center’s “Search” function saved a day’s work at HGA, Kurt will touch on the underlying server and storage infrastructure HGA has installed to enable Knowledge-Based Design.

 

Manage submittals electronically

No more piles of files: converting to electronic submittals management

Efficient submittals management is vital to staying on schedule and within budget. But paper-based processes are less and less practical in an increasingly electronic project information environment. This webinar demonstrates how the flexibility of the Newforma solution allows you to adapt your existing processes to a fully electronic format.

 

It's like Google for project files

Search and you will find: the Newforma Project Center “Search” function

Is it easier to search the entire World Wide Web than it is to find information on your company’s network? Newforma Project Center finds project information in nearly 200 common industry formats, from CAD and PDF to DWF and Microsoft Office files, plus external references, email attachments and ZIP files. This webinar shows you how.

 

Create, assign, track and resolve project action items

Assign it, track it, close it: the Action Items activity center

Do you rely on spreadsheets, Outlook email folders and verbal commitments from others to stay on top of mission critical tasks? See how the Newforma Action Items activity center integrates with Outlook, Revit, Excel and other Newforma activity centers to create, assign, track and resolve project action items.

 

Manage email

Surviving the email avalanche: the Project Email activity center

How does your firm capture email as part of the project record? Do you have an easy way to retrieve filed messages, and to associate emails with action items, submittals, RFIs and other elements of the project workflow? This webinar shows how the Newforma solution provides multiple, easy-to-use ways to manage project email.

 

Manage contract changes 

Contract change management: contracts, proposal requests, change order proposals and change orders

As contracts change and evolve, are you keeping up? The Newforma PIM solution offers easy-to-use ways to manage changing contracts. This webinar will show how the interrelated processes fit together in one enterprise solution.

 

Manage document changes

Document change management: SIs, CCDs, bulletins and sketches

Documents change constantly. How can you stay on top of what’s current? The Newforma PIM solution offers easy-to-use ways to manage supplemental instructions, construction change directives, bulletins and sketches. This webinar shows you how easy and thorough your management can be.

 

Manage requests for information

Electronic contract management: The RFI activity center

Whether you initiate, review or respond to RFIs, the Newforma PIM solution streamlines each step of the way. This webinar demonstrates how the RFI activity center integrates seamlessly with Outlook to eliminate manual entry and expedite the resolution of requests for information with a complete, discoverable audit trail.

 

Share info among remote team members

Creating shared document spaces: Info Exchange Folders

How do you ensure your distributed design and construction teams are all marching to the same beat? Attend this webinar to learn how Newforma Info Exchange Folders create shared document spaces that external or travelling team members can access and update seamlessly from the web. 

 

Who got issued what, when?

Managing drawing revisions: the Newforma Document Control activity center

Who got issued what, when, why and how? See how Newforma Project Center’s Document Control activity center improves the quality of design and construction, reduces risk and eliminates wasteful, error-prone administrative effort by answering these questions and more.

 

Mobile connectivity to project info

PIM on the go: access project data from smartphones, tablets and more

Newforma project information management software has even greater value when project teams can use smartphones, iPads, Android tablets and laptops to stay connected with project information and processes while working remotely.

 

Track promises and assigned tasks

From discussion to action items: the Meeting Minutes activity center

Newforma Project Center’s new Meeting Minutes activity center synchronizes with Microsoft Office Outlook to ensure that commitments made in meetings don’t slip through the cracks. See how to track action items, RFIs and other open project items until resolved, even as those issues extend across a series of meetings, and when working remotely.

 

Better BIM, part 1

Managing the “I” in BIM: the Newforma Add-in for Revit and coordination of design changes

The communication and timely resolution of design and constructability challenges is essential to realizing the benefits of BIM. Attend this webinar to see how PIM processes to manage action items, markups, RFIs and punch lists are connected to Revit models and elements to engage the efforts of the broader project team in streamlining BIM-based project execution.

 

Better BIM, part 2

Managing the “I” in BIM: the Newforma Add-in for Revit and building element data management

How do you keep information about door, equipment, fixture and other building elements in your models current? This webinar shows how building information across multiple models can be connected to the Building Information Management activity center, where building element properties can be added, modified, linked to spreadsheets and synchronized back to the Revit model.

 

Better BIM, part 3

Managing the “I” in BIM: the Newforma Add-in for Revit and space management

How do you keep Revit’s spatial information in step with room program spreadsheets managed outside the model? See how to connect Revit rooms, spaces and areas to the Newforma Spatial Index, where room parameters and datasheets can be added, modified or linked to room and space planning spreadsheets, and edited in bulk. 

 

Manage digital images

Step One to digital photo management: the Project Images activity center

If your firm struggles with how to manage and search across an ever-expanding volume of digital photos and images that pile up in project folders, this webinar is for you.
 

 

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• AIA learning units are not offered for Newforma WoW presentations, nor 
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Other webinars

Newforma Nugget advanced training webinars

Attend Newforma Nugget webinars for step-by-step instructions on the use of Newforma software for AEC project information management

PIM for IPD webinars

Find recordings of webinars in our popular “Project information management for integrated project delivery” series