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NEW HAMPSHIRE: First in the Nation • Profiles in Excellence 191 other members of the team. • ey need to consult lists of action items assigned to them, such as the quality control checklists called "punch lists" in the United States or "snag lists" in the United Kingdom. • ey need to see the latest versions of plans and specs, mark them up, and share them with other team members. To do these jobs and more, Newforma provides a family of mobile apps. In summary, Newforma's products are designed to increase the productivity of individuals relying upon mobile apps, improve the collaboration of project teams through web-based project information management, and enhance the performance of companies as a whole. What's next for Newforma and the AECO industry? e list is long: Project team members expect complex soware to work as elegantly as a smartphone app. Communication is moving away from sending email, which can be saved easily, to texts and instant messages, which make it harder to capture and record those decisions due to their immediacy. Silos of information are giving way to more transparent information-sharing and work processes. Litigation-as-the-norm is giving way to trust-and-verify methods of project delivery. And with companies doing more and more work offshore, the need for collaboration is only growing. ese trends make project information management more challenging, but also more critical than ever before. It's important work. A robust design and construction industry is vital to the economic and physical well-being of everyone. For example, the United States Green Building Council attributes 38 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions to buildings. Energy-efficient, sustainably designed and constructed buildings go a long way to mitigating those emissions. And with the world's population growing by 74 million people per year, providing people with housing and workplaces will require construction equivalent to a London a month for the next 30 years. Currently, Newforma products are being used on 1.8 million projects around the globe, by companies ranging from 10-person firms to ENR Top 500 companies. Newforma soware makes sure the industry operates at the peak of its abilities. As new types of building materials, the pursuit of energy-efficient design, and ever- more ambitious projects create new challenges for our industry, Newforma will be working with customers to develop tools to be more successful. As one Newforma customer said. "We don't come to work to do back-office tasks. Newforma soware spares us from the administrative burdens that distract us from our real work: designing better projects, and delivering them on-time and under-budget." v Abbot-Downing School in Concord, N.H., was built by Bedford's Harvey Construction Corporation using Newforma software to manage project information. "Newforma software spares us from the administrative burdens that distract us from our real work." E D W O N S E K