MANCHESTER, NH--(Marketwire - November 4, 2010) - Newforma®, a software company addressing the project information management (PIM) needs of architecture, engineering and construction firms, announced today that award-winning architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross is very quickly realizing real time and cost savings after implementing Newforma® Project Center software earlier this summer.
"Our Newforma software has already proven itself time and again even in just a few short months since its initial implementation," explained Andrew Watkins, project manager, Ayers Saint Gross.
"For example, on a large project for the University of Delaware," Watkins said, "there was a late change to the material on a particular building component from one metal to another. Every reference to this in the Revit BIM would need to be changed. Before Newforma, this would have required a manual search of dozens upon dozens of drawings, PDF files of the Revit model. Newforma's search capability was able to search every drawing generated from the Revit model, as well as specs and other documents, and project files, no matter the type and quickly find all instances of this term."
"It saved us literally days of work," said Watkins. "Without Newforma Project Center, it would have taken days and we probably would have missed some of them. We would have had to open each drawing individually and painstakingly scroll around looking for the term. We would hope to find them all eventually, but it would be nowhere near as fast or as efficient as with Newforma and we certainly wouldn't have the confidence we do with Newforma that we've found them all."
"Based on our experience and evaluation of the PIM software, we believed Newforma Project Center would help us to be more efficient, and it's proving itself every day," said Glenn Birx, principal, Ayers Saint Gross. "We started using Newforma on just a few projects, but I can already see that expanding due to demand across the firm. It has helped us to identify big time savers and ways to make us more efficient in our day-to-day activities."
Newforma Chief Executive Officer Ian Howell said, "Like so many Newforma customers, the architects at Ayers Saint Gross first experienced the benefits of using Newforma Project Center before they were even customers themselves by participating on a project team using Newforma to share project information. While this experience offered more efficiency on a single project, project managers across all three Ayers Saint Gross offices -- Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Tempe, Ariz. -- are now benefiting from savings on all of their projects. We are proud to deliver hard dollar and time savings to all of our customers and to help them maximize the productivity of everyone in their firm."
About Ayers Saint Gross
Ayers Saint Gross is an award-winning architectural firm with a proven track record in developing elegant and effective designs for clients. It offers expertise in a broad range of building types and environments for the dissemination of knowledge and culture. The firm of more than 130 professionals is organized into cross-disciplinary studios specializing in the design of academic and student life buildings, cultural facilities, mixed use developments, planning, landscape architecture, environmental signage, and graphic design. For more information on Ayers Saint Gross, visit www.asg-architects.com/.
About Newforma
Newforma is a software company serving architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations worldwide, and the owners they serve. Its mission is to develop and market project information management (PIM) solutions which improve responsiveness to clients, mitigate risk, streamline project execution, raise productivity and facilitate integrated project delivery (IPD). Newforma® Project Center, Newforma's flagship product, is the industry's first comprehensive PIM solution to organize and share project information, drive accountability, raise transparency and streamline project delivery processes. Newforma Project Center is currently implemented on over 400,000 projects in industry-leading AEC firms. For more information about Newforma, go to www.newforma.com, read the Newforma Blog, join the Newforma Network on LinkedIn, follow Newforma on Twitter, visit our user community at www.newformant.com or phone +1 603-625-6212.
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