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Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company Includes Newforma Software in Strategic Technology Initiative

Architectural firm finds Newforma™ Project Center easiest to implement

Manchester, N.H.—October 25, 2007—Newforma, Inc., a software company addressing the project information management needs of the design and building industry, announced today that the architectural firm of Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company has implemented Newforma™ Project Center software firm-wide as part of a larger initiative to deploy new technologies for the strategic advancement of the firm.

The firm’s strategic technology initiative has included the review and adoption of Deltek® Vision® business process software, Autodesk® Revit® building information modeling software, a Web conferencing solution and other technologies, said Nicholas Vlattas, AIA, chief financial officer and chief operations officer of Hanbury Evans. Vlattas and Design Principal Stephen Wright, AIA, rate the firm’s implementation of the Newforma solution as the smoothest and easiest of all. Wright, who is chairman of the firm’s strategic technology committee, says, “Newforma rolled out without a glitch, almost effortlessly by comparison. Training took no time at all, and people were up and running by the end of the first day.”

Wright’s committee searched for a project information management solution in response to problems that interfered with productivity. “Email inboxes were crashing because they were so big,” Wright says. “We were having a difficult time uploading to and downloading information from our FTP site. We were losing time, money and information. Newforma addressed a lot of these problems immediately. As a direct result of implementing Newforma, we have raised responsiveness to our clients, freed senior design staff’s time to focus on design quality and simultaneously reduced the risk of errors and omissions.”

“Newforma is intuitive about the pressing communications needs and speedy flow of information required of design teams in today’s dynamic working environment,” said Jean Kennedy Sleeman, AIA, LEED AP, a Hanbury Evans project manager. “We are just scratching the surface, but the immediate benefit in time saved is fantastic.”

Newforma Chief Executive Officer Ian Howell praised the Hanbury Evans strategic technology initiative. “The people at Hanbury Evans clearly understand how to leverage the best technology available for the advancement of the firm,” Howell says. “Newforma Project Center is helping project team members at Hanbury Evans maximize their efficiency by streamlining project execution tasks such as searching for any piece of project information, transferring files, resolving issues, tracking submittals, managing transmittals and much more.”

About Hanbury Evans

Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company is an architectural firm specializing in planning and design for the arts, for campuses and for historic buildings. The firm’s portfolio of projects throughout North America has earned 68 awards, including 17 national design awards since 1985. Its higher education practice, which includes more than 90 college campuses, specializes in planning and student-life facilities such as residence halls, dining halls, libraries and student unions. Arts projects include campus performance venues and historic theaters. The firm’s historic preservation practice includes adaptive-use projects and renovations such as the Executive Mansion of Virginia. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., Hanbury Evans also has offices in Wytheville, Va., and Tampa, Fla. The firm currently employs 86. Learn more about the firm at www.hewv.com.

About Newforma

Newforma is a software company serving architecture, engineering, construction and owner/operator (AECO) organizations worldwide. Its mission is to develop and market industry-leading software solutions which significantly improve the productivity of the building project team by streamlining work processes, reducing exposure from errors and omissions, improving coordination and communication, increasing visibility into costs and quantities, and enabling greater repeatability of project success. Newforma® Project Center, Newforma’s flagship product, creates a more productive environment for project managers and the project team by organizing project information, facilitating information exchange, and enabling efficient project process. Newforma Project Center is currently implemented on thousands of projects in industry-leading AECO firms. For more information about Newforma, phone +1 (603) 625-6212.

© 2007 Newforma, Inc. Newforma Project Center is a trademark of Newforma, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.  All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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