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Today's design and construction firms continue to struggle with administrative processes. This eGuide illustrates common tasks that increase administrative workloads and the implications to your project and business.

The Global State of Technology Executive Report explored software applications and top business and project-relates challenges amongst AEC professionals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Gresham Smith

Architects and engineers need to spend their time solving problems and moving the project forward, not working on tedious administrative time-sucks. See how Newforma has provided Gresham Smith significant ROI through enhanced collaboration and efficiency gains with streamlined workflows like the Newforma Workflow Connector for Procore. After finding organization-wide value using Newforma Project Center, projects are now running faster, cleaner, and more profitable.

Improve project collaboration and reduce risk without the limitations of traditional file sharing methods.

Newforma Cloud is a new web and mobile user experience offering a streamlined and modern user experience that provides access to Newforma Project Center project information on the go. Features and improvements automatically update through continuous delivery, reducing the client update time and cost required by traditional approaches.

Newforma’s Building Information Management (BIM) Module integrates building information modeling with project information management (PIM). The convergence allows your teams to reduce risk, improve the management of BIM workflows, and enable more informed decisions to be made more quickly.

Newforma’s Contract Management edition provides a comprehensive solution for managing all aspects of the construction phase of a project. Optimized for design firms who need to quickly receive, review, and return documents across many projects all within Newforma Project Center and Info Exchange. Consistent and repeatable processes reduce risk by ensuring all items are managed accurately on every project.

Managing communication and project information is a universal challenge. Without a uniform and repeatable solution to organize critical information, project teams struggle to make timely and accurate decisions. Newforma solves this problem with the most integrated and comprehensive solution for managing project information throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Newforma software delivers project intelligence with a beautiful and powerful interface. Newforma software will streamline communication, manage files, simplify construction administration and field management for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. Project Center Enterprise includes connectors that ease project team communication and collaboration to drive even greater efficiency from project inception through delivery, and beyond.

Sheppard Robson

Managing the document control process for any project can be a challenge. Learn how Sheppard Robson’s Senior Document Controller has dramatically improved team efficiency by reducing the manual workload and streamlining workflows.

KPF, TreanorHL, Hanbury, Architects Orange, CESO, Wiley, Payette

Newforma Project Center aims to be the center of all things project related. From email management to construction administration to field management to Building Information Management (BIM), Newforma Project Center enables architects, engineers, contractors and owners to streamline workflows, allowing project teams to save time and money.

Hanbury, Architects Orange, Payette, Hargrove Engineers + Constructors, Wiley, TreanorHL

Email management has become a universal challenge for Design and Construction companies. Hundreds of project-related emails stream in daily and without a proper solution to organize and file critical information, a series of issues can arise. Learn how firms today can easily file and find all project emails utilizing Newforma Project Center.

Hargrove Engineers + Constructors, Payette, Zyscovich Architects, Treanor HL, KPF, Hanbury, Architects Orange

The Construction Administration process can be cumbersome, especially if firms are using antiquated processes to track RFIs and Submittals. Learn how Architecture and Engineering firms are leveraging Newforma Project Center’s simplified workflows as a single pane of glass into all Construction Administration activities.

Humphreys & Partners Architects, LP, Zyscovich Architects, Hanbury, Treanor HL, CESO, Payette

Information is the lifeblood of Design and Construction projects. Prior to using Newforma Project Center, project team members would often depend on legacy FTP sites to share critical drawings and documents but would often run into limitations or obstacles that can jeopardize the project. Learn how Architecture and Engineering firms utilize Newforma Project Center’s InfoExchange to streamline information transfer and mitigate risk with detailed audit trails.

CESO, LS3P Associates, Hargrove Engineers + Constructors, Wiley, Zyscovich Architects, TreanorHL

"Quite often you don't think there's a problem until it's too late". From the initial stages of a project through to its conclusion, having the correct information at every step is the only way to ensure you won’t unnecessarily face costly delays and errors. Learn how Newforma Project Center gives project team members confidence in their decision-making with detailed audit trails and access to all project data.

Humphreys & Partners, LP, LS3P Associates, Payette, KPF, Architects Orange

Just as continuous improvement is a critical organization, adaptation to technology has become essential for today’s AEC firms. However, adoption is one of the biggest challenges when implementing new technology. Learn how firms are maximizing the value of Newforma Project Center by developing training programs for increased user adoption.

Sheppard Robson

Sheppard Robson, an architecture practice based in London, has been a Newforma customer for five years. Simon Johns, IT Director, says that Newforma Project Center helped them easily search through 12 terabytes of email information.

Most AECO professionals use incompatible systems to address project document management needs even though using mismatched systems results in increased administrative overhead, inefficiency, and opportunity for error. It’s time to put your project documents in a centralized system for instant access to the most current information.

Design teams prefer design work over construction administration work. This connector eliminates the need for manual double entry of project information and speeds RFI and submittal turnaround time, and more.

Contractors love this connector because it makes it easy to work with architects and engineers by simplifying and streamlining workflows by automating the transfer of RFI and submittal information to the design team.

This connector eliminates administrative overhead by automatically setting up projects in Project Center when a new project is added to Rapport.

This connector eliminates administrative overhead by automatically setting up projects in Project Center when a new project is added to Deltek.

This connector eliminates administrative overhead by automatically setting up projects in Project Center when a new project is added to Unanet.

This connector eliminates administrative overhead by automatically setting up projects in Project Center when a new project is added to BST.

Project teams must improve project workflow to work in harmony. Newforma software can help solve project workflow pain points without disrupting the way people work.

Learn how ConstructEx benefitted BFC Partners by enhancing their ability to work faster and smarter, reducing administrative workload and increasing team collaboration.

Newforma's Project Information Management Software enables architects, engineers, contractors and owners to reduce time spent on administrative tasks, streamline project workflows and power real-time collaboration for project teams.

The State of Technology Executive Report features survey data collected from 1,154 architects, engineers and construction professionals. Download this resource and learn about the top AEC software applications, data and file storage preferences, top technology and Project Information Management (PIM) challenges, and more.

The State of Technology Executive Report features survey data from 1,154 AEC professionals who provide data around top AEC applications, data and file storage preferences, top technology challenges, and more.

Granum A/I

Granum A/I, an architecture and interior design practice, has been a Newforma customer for more than 4 years. Matthew Peters, an architect with the firm, says that one project stood out as the fulcrum of acknowledging the value that Newforma software added to the firm.

ConstructEx, cloud-based construction management software, enables project teams to instantly share and access project information from anywhere.

Keep your company, projects and people organized. Newforma connects designers with the information they need and makes it easy to keep construction projects on track.

IBI Group

Before Newforma software, IBI Group had an inconsistent filing method, which was problematic if a document needed found quickly. "Newforma allowed us to search for documents and find them, whether you were the person who filed it or not or whether you were copied on it or not," Virginia "Vee" Baker, Project Coordinator at IBI, said. After Newforma, the IBI team had a single view into project documents and a full picture of what was going on with customers.

Derry LTD

Derry LTD, a BIM Level 2 Certified company, wanted team members on a project job site to have the correct models and information, anywhere, anytime. "Newforma Document Control is the most important feature in Newforma," Mark Silcock, BIM Manager at Derry LTD, says. Now, the firm has a central location in which architects and consultants can manage, access and view current and prior versions of documents.

Nelson

Nelson, a global architecture, design and consulting firm, needed a PIM (Project Information Management) solution to index and organize all the firm's scattered data. "Nobody knew how to find information when they needed it," Matt Davidson, Infrastructure Project Director at Neslon, said. Newforma software streamlined the administrative process for the firm so that project teams could track action items and what needed accomplished when.

Corgan

Before using Newforma Project Center, Corgan, a leading architecture firm, used a variety of manual project information management techniques. Now, the firm can organize projects, provide clear direction and understanding of project information, RFIs and submittals. Chad Speas, Practice Technology Manager / Architect at Corgan, says, "Newforma Project Center is the central source of truth for all of our data."

Building design is an iterative process where documents are in a state of continuous change and stored in a variety of locations. Many solutions force designers to waste what could be high-value activity time moving documents into a single proprietary database solution. With a single view of all project information, designers spend more time doing the work they love.

Our software establishes relationships between the data to provide full project context. When you search using Newforma, you access the item you searched for and that item’s related information and supporting documentation, for each project or any combination of projects.

Your teams are too busy solving important design issues to waste time searching for critical project information. With Newforma, every file, action item and email on your network is indexed, resulting in a powerful all-encompassing search.

Is your project team buried in emails and plagued by mailbox size restrictions, inadequate searching capabilities and the inability to relate an email to other project items? When email communications aren’t incorporated into the entire project record or are difficult to find, making timely and accurate decisions aren’t possible.

Your projects are complex. They involve many people from many companies constantly communicating, sharing documents and data while collaborating. Project Center can help lower the chances of potential disputes by ensuring access to the most current project information, by maintaining a detailed log for project accountability, and more.

Architects, engineers, contractors, and owners face unique challenges throughout the lifecycle of a project. Newforma connects with other best-in-class applications therefore reducing administrative work, coordinating project communication, and freeing up designers time to do more of the work they love.

Technologically speaking, the greatest obstacle to success in construction today is the proliferation of the data silo. Few, if any, companies ever realize the value of all the information created on a single project—data that could be used to improve decision-making, efficiency, quality and safety, as well as reduce liability on that project and all those that follow.

Increases productivity throughout the build process by connecting Project Center with Studio Sessions, the real-time collaboration capability within Revu. This connector streamlines submittal reviews to meet deadlines faster and reduce opportunities for error by removing unnecessary administrative overhead from the review cycle. Whether a submittal requires single or multiple collaborative reviews, the seamless connection allows project teams to review, mark up, modify, and update the same documents at the same time. 

New tools such as virtual reality and drones drastically alter how architects work. Bill Kloster, principle and CIO with Short Elliot Hendrickson Inc., marvels at how innovation has changed since his father designed buildings 20 years ago. Today, information collected at the jobsite is immediately uploaded to a central server that is available to anyone with a network-connected device. Using Newforma, a software specifically tailored for design and construction firms, architects, engineers, and draftspeople access and share all project documents electronically.

Newforma UK partnered with Construction Manager on a research project, which asked what role digital technology and improved information management can play in boosting industry efficiency.

Improved information management is regarded as central to delivering the government's digital build Britain goals -- yet construction is currently showing limited ambition in using data and digital technology to improve its efficiency. It's apparent that data management innovations such as collaborative platforms and file sharing are not widely used to support project development and collaboration. This is a good indicator that information is not accessible by those who need it and that information is not distributed enough to support collaborative working.

To become competitive on a global scale, the UK construction industry must find a way to manage the basics with greater consistency.