Case Studies

AEC Projects

HBG sought standardization and an accurate, automated method for PDF file naming, revision number tracking, and an accurate way to record punch list items. As a result, they found Newforma. These matters were resolved. HBG also benefits from automation with Newforma to Revit connector and ways to work more productively in the field.

USA / Southeast

Retail, Hotels, Commercial

The firm chose Newforma as its email management solution, then realized Newforma had much more to offer. Now, project team members can access valuable information from anywhere in a matter of seconds.

EUROPE / EMEA / UK

Retail, Hotels, Commercial

WSP found sharing and coordinating 3D models to be time-consuming and difficult. They use Newforma to automate this process and to capture audit trails that provide transparency and accountability.

USA / Northeast

Maritime, Environmental, Urban

Project delivery managers aim to keep improving and streamlining processes, even on large projects. Therefore, utilizing Newforma proves to be a key element in ongoing optimization and digitalization efforts.

EUROPE / EMEA / UK

Residential, Education, Mixed Use

The need to manage rapid growth and spin-up project teams quickly led us to Newforma. Their integration with project files, Outlook, Revit, and AutoCAD simplifies adoption. As an added benefit, Info Exchange provides a professional, web-based collaboration platform for each project with minimal IT administration.

EUROPE / EMEA / Middle East

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Reardonsmith Architects

Team members struggled to locate information and emails were disconnected from project files. Reardonsmith found Newforma and resolved this problem. As a result, they find project information quickly to help resolve disputes or substantiate claims.

EUROPE / EMEA / UK

Hotels, Resorts, Residences

Too many steps to file an email, slow search, and the expense of maintaining an in-house solution were problems. As a result, PRP found Newforma and love it. Highlights include the drag-and-drop feature, single team view of email for each project, and instant keyword search of email and attached PDF, CAD, and Microsoft® Office files.

EUROPE / EMEA / UK

Urban, Education, Commercial

The project team included 750 architects, engineers, and consultants across 12 time zones. Global projects like this challenge team members to manage milestones and coordinate information. Newforma provides HOK considerable advantages on complex, large-scale projects, riddled with potential risk.

EUROPE / EMEA / Middle East

Architecture, Engineering, Landscape

Foster + Partners

Newforma makes document control easy for for project architects, clients and contractors. Tracking who got what, and when or how they got it is no longer a challenge.

Healthcare, Education, Mixed Use

Foster + Partners

During the implementation of Newforma, the software culled duplicate emails resulting in a 40 percent reduction in physical storage. With Newforma’s project-centric keyword search, all historical project email including attachments is easily discoverable.

EUROPE / EMEA / UK

Healthcare, Education, Mixed Use

BDP – Cultural Centre; Sabah Al Ahmad City, Kuwait

A claim’s financial impact can run into millions. BDP sought to manage project information in a way that reduces risk. This need led BDP to Newforma. Team members have access to detailed information to quickly resolve situations and have all communications as a part of the project record.

EUROPE / EMEA / Middle East

Urban, Civil, Landscape

Perkins+Will needed to address rapidly growing storage and data protection needs and create a scalable global file system that enables worldwide collaboration. As a result, they implemented Newforma. Today they combine on-premise hardware and software with cloud storage. They gained simplified central management for IT and the ability to make cloud-stored project information readily accessible...

USA / Southeast

Healthcare, Education, Commercial

Thornton Tomasetti

Thorton Tomasetti sought a solution to make project data centrally accessible and discoverable across the company. Not disrupting existing processes was important, along with easily sharing large files with project partners. These issues resolved with the implementation of Newforma.

APAC / South Korea

Commercial, Education, Healthcare

McKinstry sought to reduce the time wasted in the creation of daily reports. With Newforma, McKinstry creates professional-looking daily reports with a complete summary of the day’s events, including pictures. From logging project status, issues, safety concerns, equipment lists, headcounts, and more, report creation is now easy.

Education, Commercial, Healthcare

PCS needed to improve communication with clients and consultants. They also wanted to share BIM’s 3D perspectives with team members. PCS implemented Newforma. As a result, project data easy to find, contract administration is streamlined, and record-keeping has been improved which mitigates risk.

Healthcare, Mixed Use, Commercial

ZGF wanted to improve all processes around handling project informaiton. From managing transmittals and comparing drawings to marking up CAD files and responding to requests for information. With Newforma, ZGF has made those improvements, resolve Action Items faster, and automatically log all transactions.

Healthcare, Education, Mixed Use

MG2 was finding paper archives expensive and did not like the delays involved in retrieving documents from storage. Additionally, data entry mistakes in the archive log were making information harder to find. Newforma’s approach of indexing data stored in the cloud or on-premises led to fast through search results, being able to quickly answer client...

Mixed Use, Residential, Retail

LMN wanted to resolve time wasted searching for and recreating information. Concerns over misplacing or separating portions of submission packages from the rest of the submission led them to Newforma. With Newforma they are saving time. They no longer need to copy, scan and bundle hardcopy packages for a courier, or file in-progress hardcopies.

Urban Mixed Use, Education