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Top 3 Tech Challenges of 2019 AEC industry report reveals which data points will make or break your business Presented by Marge Hart, VP, Product Management Sponsored by

MA MARGE HA E HART VP, Product Management � 20 years experience with soBware design and customer research � Head of Newforma’s Product Advisory Board � Prior experience includes: � FRS Global � IncenMve Systems � Kana CommunicaMons � PictureTel

The research • When was this data collected? December 2018 • How many respondents? 1,154 • From what source? Followers of 3 industry publicaMons and a list of 220,000 AEC professionals • Methodology, type of quesCons, and categories: • QuanMtaMve study, MulMple Choice quesMons • Demographics • Top (most relied upon) AEC soBware applicaMons • Mobile devices, soBware applicaMons file storage • Top technology challenges, top PIM challenges, and recency of legal dispute

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Top Technology Challenges 45% 35% 32% 30% 30% 29% ConnecMng project team Maintaining and Sharing files and Time spent on SoBware training Working producMvely in members preserving an audit trail of documents with project administraMve tasks (e.g. the field who did what, when team members search, repeMMve data entry) Source: 1st Annual State of Technology in AEC Firms Survey

Top Project Informa<on Management Challenges 40% 39% 28% 28% 26% 24% AdministraMve workload CoordinaMon between the Email management Managing commitments Managing submibals Project workflow (duplicate data entry, office and the field and deliverables and RFIs search, share, etc.) Source: 1st Annual State of Technology in AEC Firms Survey

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3 Project workflow EXAMPLES… TO OVERCOME THIS CHALLENGE… • Assigning work tasks while in the field • Use mobile applicaMons to assign acMon items and punch items immediately • Take photos and comments in the field and • CreaMng daily and site visit reports immediately use them to create reports

Assigning Ac<on Items in the field this way? Take notes and photos Save photos to your computer Send emails to those Update spreadsheet and while in the field responsible to complete send manual reminders of Enter AcMon Items in a AcMon Items AcMon Items due spreadsheet and associate photos

…or this way? Use a mobile app to create AcMon Team members use a mobile app to Project Managers and internal team members Items and notes, add photos, due update the AcMon Item with notes and view the status of AcMon Items to easily idenMfy dates and assignments photos tasks not started, in progress, complete and overdue Upload AcMon Items to the Team members close items when project for team members complete Automated reminders emailed to team members when items are coming due and overdue

Crea<ng Reports like this? Grab the photos you Manually email or transfer Manually write notes on a Plug in your phone and save saved, drag and format the field report over to the yellow legal pad and take photos to your computer them in your report individuals that need to pictures with your phone Manually type out your notes into template see it your MicrosoB Word/Excel template

…or like this? Use a mobile app to create Associate those Field Notes to As part finalizing the report workflow, send an annotaMons on photos or automate the creaMon of reports auditable copy of the report to the project team drawings bringing in all notes, photos and and maintaining the report as part of the annotaMons at the same Mme project record Use that informaMon to create Field Notes and Both Site Visit and Daily Reports can be automaMcally upload to created with this informaMon Newforma Project Center

DEMO DEMO Project Workflow

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2 Sharing project files and documents EXAMPLES… TO OVERCOME THIS CHALLENGE… • Track all incoming and outgoing transfers • Use Newforma Project Center to automaMcally log all transfers • Newforma Project Center automaMcally • AutomaMcally create associated creates Transmibals when sending documents Transmibals externally

Sharing files with a project team, this way? � Launch and search mulMple locaMons where project files and documents are stored � Take notes in the field, return to desk and input notes, assign tasks to project team members, etc. � Document the audit trail? � Etc.

…or this way? � Office-to-field, project informaMon wherever team members are � Mobile apps � Project workflows � Audit trails � Etc.

DEMO DEMO Sharing Project Files

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1 Administra<ve workload and tasks are the leading technology and and PIM challenges EXAMPLES… TO OVERCOME THIS CHALLENGE… � Searching project informaMon � Search project data wherever it resides, quickly � Manage emails � Make emails and abachments searchable � Reviewing RFIs and Submibals � Streamline process and handling of RFIs and Submibals

Administra<ve tasks mul<ply quickly 60 work 60 w rkda days a y s a year ear AVERAGE AMOUNT OF F TIME EMPLOYEES SPEND MATION SE SEARCHING FOR AND D GATHER ERING PR PROJE JECT INFORMA ~The social economy: Unlocking value and produc8vity through social technologies. McKinsey 8 hours ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF TIME NEEDED TO REVIEW EVERY RFI ~Navigant Construc8on Forum 800 RFIs AVERAGE NUMBER OF RFIs PER PROJECT ~Navigant Construc8on Forum

Does ‘search & gather’ require this? Shared network drive Records of transfers? CA acMvity tracking? Outlook folders (RFIs & Submibals) External file sharing site ConstrucMon AdministraMon sites Team members? Cloud storage? Site photos? Outlook contact (Panzura and Nasuni) Room and space data? directory Camera Latest sheet data? CAD and BIM Project deadlines and CAD and BIM due dates? Public Outlook Clash issues? Contracts and change calendars orders? CAD and BIM applicaMons ERP system

…or this?

DEMO DEMO Search & Gather

Top 6 AEC Technologies • Autodesk AutoCAD Design & DraB • SketchUp • Newforma Project InformaMon Management • Bluebeam Studio PDF mark-up and review • Autodesk Revit Building InformaMon Management • Autodesk BIM 360

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