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Newforma in the media
AECWeekly - July 7, 2008
Newforma Release Enriched by New Partnerships
AECCafe.com Managing Editor Susan Smith writes, "Project information management (PIM) joins the ranks of acronymed solutions available for managing the large volume of disparate information critical to architectural and engineering projects.
Noteworthy in that category is Newforma Project Center Fifth Edition project information management solution from Newforma. After using the product, now customers are giving feedback and report significant savings."
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Building Design and Construction - June 9, 2008
BIM is booming: new technology solutions at AIA 2008
Senior Associate Editor Jeff Yoders writes, "The recent AIA National Convention and Design Expo in Boston came with a steady stream of new modeling and visualization, project management, and collaboration solutions from major industry software vendors such as Autodesk, Bentley, Graphisoft, Adobe, and Newforma. ... Newforma Project Center Fifth Edition greatly expands the ways external team members can collaborate via Outlook and introduces new capabilities for project monitoring and contract administration."
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AECbytes Viewpoint #38 - May 2008
Two Steps Forward, No Going Back: How Our Firm is Using Technology to Gain a Strategic Advantage
Four years ago, the architecture and planning firm Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company created a strategic technology committee to see what leading firms were doing to improve project delivery. The people of Hanbury Evans felt that the technology they had, from CAD to communications, was inefficient at a time when clients were demanding more in less time. In this Viewpoint article, Design Principal Stephen C. Wright, who chaired the firm’s strategic technology committee, reflects on the changes that have restored the firm’s operational excellence.
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Canadian Architect - January 2008
Data Retrieval
Sharing, retrieving and disseminating information on large international projects has become incredibly complex, given the collaborative nature of the practice. In this article, J. Denis Seguin, OAA, OAQ, who is the Canadian director of service delivery and principal of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, describes how HOK uses Revit, Newforma Project Center and other technologies to work with firms spread across many cities and time zones.
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Building Design and Construction - January 1, 2008
Take the nightmare out of managing your email
Associate Editor Jeff Yoders reports that AEC firms are under pressure to manage the overflow of information flooding their offices. Technology solutions tend to focus on contractors, not on architecture and engineering firms, while enterprise content management solutions are pricey and not a good fit. Quotes by CIO Joseph Talamantez of Chicago-based A/E firm OWP/P bring the case to life.
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AECbytes - December 21, 2007
Managing Submittals at LMN Architects: Before Newforma Project Center and After
LMN has always prided itself on the rigor of its construction administration, but that thoroughness was extremely labor-intensive. It is therefore no accident that the first LMN projects to utilize Newforma Project Center were those in the construction phase.
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Constructor Magazine - November/December 2007
Information Technology: Newforma Project Center - Making project e-mail easier to manage
This brief overview describes how the Newforma Project Center solution files email and attachments with other project documents and makes it easy to find them later.
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Cadalyst Labs Review - November 1, 2007
Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition
Industry analyst Jerry Laiserin gives Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition an A+ for the way it solves project information management problems without the shortcomings of document management systems, intranets, extranets and electronic collaboration platforms.
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AIArchitect - October 19, 2007
It's Not Always About BIM
Contributing Editor Michael Tardif, Assoc. AIA, points out that many architects spend more time managing information than they do designing buildings, and describes how the Newforma solution has arisen to remedy that problem.
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AECbytes - August 30, 2007
Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition Product Review
AECbytes Editor Lachmi Khemlani, Ph.D., digs deep into the functionalities of Newforma Project Center information management software, concluding that it's “remarkably comprehensive and powerful, addressing all the key project management and execution challenges that design firms have to face on a day-to-day basis.”
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AECCafe Weekly - August 20, 2007
Email, Project Knowledge and Support for BIM in Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition
AEC Weekly Managing Editor Susan Smith discusses what's new with
Newforma Director of Product Management Allen Preger.
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AECbytes - July 2007
Implementation of Project Execution Software at Eppstein Uhen Architects
AECbytes Editor Lachmi Khemlani, Ph.D., recounts a presentation Eppstein Uhen Architects Vice President and Director of Information Technology Bret Tushaus gave at ZweigWhite's 2007 AEC Technologies Strategies conference.
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The Voice -
the magazine of the Construction Users Roundtable - July 2007
Building Information Modeling: Better, Worse or Just Different?
Newforma CEO Ian Howell and Vice President of Product Management and
Industry Marketing Bob Batcheler discuss the implications of BIM for project processes molded
around years of using two-dimensional drawings.
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CE News - June 2007
Challenges and solutions: how changing processes can lead to better business
ZweigWhite Editorial Director
Shanon Fauerbach, P.E., invites industry leaders to talk about the ways more efficient work processes can lead to more healthy businesses.
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AECCafe Weekly - May 2007
New Perspective on Process Management from Newforma
AEC Weekly Managing Editor Susan Smith interviews Newforma CEO Ian Howell, who talks about what happens when a group of Autodesk and Softdesk veterans ask architects and engineers, "What are your points of pain?"
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Cadalyst - May 2007
Boosting Integration, Reducing Frustration
Editor Heather Livingston uses screen captures and the remarks of Newforma CEO Ian Howell to summarize the value of Newforma Project Center software.
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AIA KnowledgeNet - April 2007
Improving AEC Project Execution: Lessons from 11 Industry Leaders
Here's a brief summary of a white paper, "Improving AEC Project Execution: Lessons from 11 Industry Leaders," conducted for Newforma by Spar Point Research.
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AECbytes - March 2007
AECbytes Tips and Tricks: Animating Illustrations of Design Changes using Newforma Project Center
Gould Evans Associates Project Team Leader Tamara Shroll shows how to create animated GIFs of before-and-after changes to buildings.
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ENR - February 2007
Innovative Tools Help Companies Cut the Data Beast Down to Size
Engineering News-Record Associate Editor Tom Sawyer describes how Newforma and other enterprise technology companies help engineering firms capture and leverage data.
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CE News - December 2006
Managing the e-mail avalanche
Newforma Vice President of Product Management and
Industry Marketing Bob Batcheler describes how more efficient project information management eases the engineer's task of filing and finding project information.
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Engineering Inc. - November/December 2006
Psomas Chairman Timothy G. Psomas, P.E., speaks with Newforma's Bob Kahr at the ACEC 2006 National Conference on the Built Environment
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AIA Edges - November 2006
Achieving the Goals of buildingSMART—The Role of the Software Vendor
Newforma CEO Ian Howell describes the overarching goal of the buildingSMART initiative—enabling a more efficient design/build process and facilitating better coordination between disciplines.
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Cadalyst magazine - September 2006
Digital Project Management
H. Edward Goldberg, AIA, describes how leading construction and design firms are using cutting-edge software to manage building projects.
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AIA Focus magazine -
February 2006
Digital Project Collaboration
Michael Bordenaro describes emerging software and its
impact on the team aspect of architecture.
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Design-Build Dateline - June 2005
The Purpose-Driven Exchange of Information
Newforma CEO Ian Howell and Vice President of Product Management and
Industry Marketing Bob Batcheler discuss how a process-centric view of project information provides the right information to the right
people at the right time.
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