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Newforma Adds Mobile Functionality, Revit Connectivity, and Contract Management
3 Mar, 2011 By: Nancy Spurling JohnsonNew modules extend reach of Newforma Project Center Eighth Edition, the company's core project information management solution.
For AEC companies still working to regain stable economic footing, is now the time to be investing in new software? For many, the timing couldn't be better. In fact, some technology — if it can help a smaller staff be more productive; help reduce mistakes, scheduling slips, and cost overruns; or help improve customer responsiveness — could be just what the doctor ordered for staying healthy in today's business climate.
Newforma believes its project information management (PIM) software is one such solution, and recently announced not only a significant upgrade to its core product, Newforma Project Center, but also three new add-on modules designed to help architecture, engineering, and construction firms optimize work processes that require integration with BIM (building information modeling), increased mobility, greater transparency, and improved accountability.
Newforma's PIM solution now includes:
- Newforma Project Center Eighth Edition. This latest version includes new features for managing document control, actionable meeting minutes, project images, Microsoft Office Excel reporting, remote access to project files (even from an iPad), and more.
- Newforma Mobile. This new product module brings PIM functionality to any smart phone equipped with a mobile browser, including iPhone, Blackberry, and Android mobile devices.
- Newforma Add-in for Autodesk Revit. This new module connects spaces and elements from within a Revit Architecture, MEP, or Structure building information model to related project processes for document control, punch lists, room information management, design review, and more.
Through the Newforma Add-in for Autodesk Revit, project information from Newforma Project Center can be synchronized with and displayed in the Revit building model, permitting, for example, a color-coded display of open punch list items as a view in the Revit model. (Model provided courtesy of HOK, Inc.)
- Newforma Contract Management. This new module provides a comprehensive platform for tracking construction phase and contract administration workflows, including those for RFIs, submittals, change orders, addenda, supplemental instructions, bulletins, punch lists, and more.
Newforma Contract Management is an optional module of the Newforma project information management (PIM) solution that supports contract and document change management during the construction phase of an AEC project. Shown here: the RFI activity center.
Bob Batcheler, Newforma vice-president of product management, commented about the new Contract Management functionality. "We previously had the capability to originate, track, and review RFIs and submittals … but what we heard from our customers is they really need something that's going to take them all the way through the different elements of contract management during the construction phase. We've incorporated a lot of customer feedback with respect to submittals and RFIs, as well as building out the ability to track document changes … all those things that are used in the field to capture and communicate changes in construction documents. We've done all this in a way that we believe supports all the various players in the construction process."
Newforma Mobile, Newforma Contract Management, and Newforma Add-in for Autodesk Revit are optional add-ons for the core Newforma Project Center product.
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About the Author: Nancy Spurling Johnson
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