Newforma - The Swiss Army Knife

A couple of months ago I had a call from Rory Campbell-Lange, the founder and managing director of Campbell-Lange Workshop, a company that provides IT solutions and support to design companies in central London. Rory's firm holds regular forums for senior staff, IT and operations managers of medium-to-large design practices. These forums are designed to "help stimulate ideas and the exchange of knowledge and experience".

Rory was looking for speakers who could give a presentation on how they have used IT solutions to solve specific issues and asked me if I could suggest someone who would be prepared to talk about how Newforma software has helped their business. I approached Terry Nichols, Director of Emerging Technologies at HOK in London and chairman of the Newforma UK User Community Group, who was delighted to talk about HOK's experiences with Newforma Project Center.

The forum was held on 29th September at the Building Centre in central London. You can see a video of Terry's presentation on the Campbell-Lange Workshop wesbite.

During his talk, Terry refered to Newforma Project Center as a "Swiss Army Knife of useful tools". In fact, this analogy was first introduced by Jerry Laiserin back in 2007 in his Cadalyst review of the Fourth Edition of Newforma Project Center when he summarised the software as "The Swiss Army knife of AEC productivity" and gave it an A+ rating.