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NEW HAMPSHIRE: First in the Nation • Profiles in Excellence 189 emails alone, all of which need to be available in the project record. Plus, that school will have drawings, meeting minutes, images, contracts, specifications, and other documentation running to 18,000 files. Sometimes, a critical safety issue or a legal claim will hinge on just one of those emails or files. ey all demand sound management. With this understanding, Newforma created the industry's first comprehensive soware to organize, find, track, share, monitor and reuse technical project information and communications, and do so in a way that is completely aligned with the people and processes that depend on that information. When Newforma set out to tackle this challenge, there had been individual soware programs that addressed one or two of these issues. But those "point solutions" (as they are called) were not industry-focused. ey did not work elegantly in AECO processes. And there was nothing that tied them all together and eliminated opportunities for items to slip between the cracks. Newforma soware was the first industry-focused and integrated solution to connect architecture, engineering, construction, and owner organizations to each other, to their project information, to their processes, and to remote team members, all for the purpose of more successful project delivery. e Granite State turns out to provide bedrock ingredients for startup businesses: venture capital funding and high-tech expertise. Newforma was founded by seven industry professionals with decades of soware and AECO industry experience. Jesse Devitte, of Borealis Ventures (with offices in Hanover and Portsmouth), was Newforma's seed investor. Bob Batcheler, Jim Forester, Todd Kozikowski, Larry Nuttall, Dave Plunkett and Allen Preger had, at various points in their careers, worked together defining, developing and marketing popular technical soware applications, many of which are still used today by leading architecture and engineering companies. ese AECO soware experts reunited to launch Newforma. Many technology companies begin by identifying a cool technology, building a cool product, and searching for customers. Newforma went about it differently. e Newforma founders sought out AECO professionals who agreed to purchase soware if Newforma would develop a product that solved real- world problems. Of all the places for such a company to originate, why New Hampshire? Harvey Construction Corporation of Bedford, N.H., used Newforma software to collaborate with subcontractors, designers, and the Concord School District in building the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School. E D W O N S E K NEWFORMA continued on next page >>