The Newforma family expands ...

It's been a busy year so far. At least that's my excuse when I look back and realise that my last blog posting was back in January!

I'm writing this sat in front of a blazing log fire in the New Hampshire home of my good friend and colleague, Vic Sanchez. I flew into the States last Monday for a week of company meetings at our head office about an hour north of Boston.

I've been over here several times before but it was the first trip for Rob Stephen who joined Newforma in the UK as a technical consultant at the beginning of March. Rob lives in London and has previously been CAD Manager at London architectural practices Pascall & Watson and T P Bennett before setting up his own CAD consultancy last year. It's great to have Rob on board and this week has been a good opportunity for him to meet the rest of the Newforma crew.

This week has also seen the announcement of NFS as a new Newforma reseller partner in the UK. NFS is a new company founded by Mark Creamer and John Williams with the sole focus of providing Newforma software and solutions to firms in the UK and Ireland. I've had the pleasure of working with both Mark and John previously and they have extensive experience of providing AEC technology solutions in the UK. I'm sure that under their leadership NFS will be a great partner to Newforma.

Although this blog is entitled "PIM in the UK" I have no hesitation in bending the rules a bit and mentioning another firm destined to become a Newforma reseller partner - this time in the Netherlands. ICN Solutions are already well known to many Dutch firms for their experience in providing BIM solutions and implementation consultancy. I have recently had the opportunity to accompany ICN on several visits to firms in Holland. All of these firms have expressed great interest in Newforma Project Center - and in particular how straightforward it is to implement without having to force users to change their day to day processes for managing their emails and project files.

ICN Solutions is a very dynamic and well respected firm - and they certainly made us very welcome on a recent visit to their head office and then later that evening at a microbrewery in the town!

Newforma visits ICN Solutions in the Netherlands
(Rob Stephen - centre, Vic Sanchez - far right)