Category: Product & Practice

As CMMC enforcement moves from policy to practice, architecture and engineering firms must understand how Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) affects their design workflows especially when using project information platforms like Newforma.

While software platforms are not CMMC-certified, firms are responsible for ensuring that how they store, transmit, and manage CUI within those systems meets compliance requirements.

Led by Guernsey, a Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) and full-service A/E firm, this session breaks down what triggers CMMC, what design artifacts qualify as CUI, and how project management systems enter your assessment boundary. Attendees will gain practical, real-world strategies for securing cloud environments, managing consultant access, documenting controls, and preparing for assessment without disrupting project delivery.

If your firm works on DoD projects, this session will provide clarity, reduce uncertainty, and help protect your future contract eligibility.

How do you measure the problems that never happened?

In this data-driven session, Mark Epstein of Turner Construction shares how a comprehensive BIM coordination effort on a prominent $30M San Antonio University project prevented 3,647 clashes from reaching the field, saving 15,250 labor hours and approximately $1.7M in potential costs.

Faced with a traditionally delivered design-bid-build project that lacked early coordination, the team brought major trades together and developed a structured clash issuance matrix assigning responsibility, urgency, labor cost impact, and estimated field remediation time, all tracked through Power BI.

This session will explore how to quantify coordination value, communicate ROI to stakeholders, and transform BIM from a technical exercise into a measurable business advantage.

Project teams lose valuable time every day managing emails, documents, RFIs, and Submittals, but those minutes add up to real cost.  This session shows how HDR is using Newforma Project Center to streamline core workflows and turn time saved into measurable financial value. 

Attendees will see how everyday activities like Email filing, Project Teams, Relating Items, and Info Exchange can be completed faster and more reliably.  The session also highlights how stronger Decision and Documentation Tracking protects firms, supports change orders, and reduces disputes long after a project ends. 

Focused on practical outcomes, this presentation demonstrates how to quantify time savings, translate them into dollars, and drive broader adoption across project teams.  If you’re looking to do more with the resources you already have, this session delivers clear, actionable takeaways.

Most firms treat project email as an afterthought, something that lives in personal inboxes until someone needs it. At AKS, we learned the hard way that project email isn’t just communication, it is the project record. When we rolled out Newforma Project Center in 2015, centralized project email was one of the first workflows we implemented. Nearly ten years later, it remains one of our most mission-critical systems. This session shares real-world lessons from a decade of treating project email as a formal system of record. We will explore why this matters far beyond day-to-day project management, especially when projects go on hold and restart months or years later, when projects change hands due to staff turnover, and when documentation is needed for disputes, litigation, or client accountability.

Attendees will hear honest examples of what changed when email stopped living in individual inboxes. Project handoffs became manageable instead of chaotic. Timelines could be reconstructed with confidence. New PMs could step into active projects and actually understand what happened before they arrived. Most importantly, the firm built organizational memory that survives long project lifecycles and staff changes. This session is not about features. It is about what happens when you treat project communication as infrastructure, not convenience.

Key Takeaways:

• Why centralized project email often matters more after the project than during it
• Real examples where project email protected the firm during disputes and litigation
• How to shift team behavior so email becomes a project record, not inbox clutter
• Lessons learned from nearly a decade of doing this well

Who Should Attend: Project managers, IT directors, risk managers, and anyone responsible for document control or project information management, especially firms with long project lifecycles, staff turnover, or litigation exposure.

Are you just “using” Newforma Konekt, or are you mastering it? As the industry shifts toward “The New Wave” of digital project delivery, the difference between drowning in data and riding the crest of efficiency comes down to the hidden gems in your toolkit.

In this high-velocity session, we’re stripping away the basics and diving straight into the power features that even veteran users overlook. We will count down 10 “Aha” moments—from Outlook automation cheat codes to secret 3D viewer shortcuts—that will shave hours off your week. Designed for the high-energy professional, this session focuses on the User Experience, proving that the right technique makes the software work for you, not the other way around. Leave the grunt work behind, reclaim your Friday afternoons, and prepare to lead your team through the next wave of project challenges with total confidence.

Related Items is an often underutilized feature within Project Center, yet it offers significant potential to streamline workflows and enhance access to supporting project information. RFIs and submittals frequently require cross-referencing contract documents during review and response. Similarly, Spaces can store every photo taken of a room, regardless of when or by whom.

Consider how often you’ve searched for a specific photo – one of hundreds or even thousands taken during site visits, knowing the room but not the exact visit in which it was captured.  Related items can put that photo at your fingertips.

The Related Items feature provides a powerful way to connect this information, making it easily accessible and logically organized for project teams. By linking documents, notes, images, and other supporting materials, teams can quickly locate the correct information, improving efficiency and reducing time spent hunting for context during project execution.

Discover how to transform user engagement by embedding training directly within Newforma Konekt. This session presents an innovative approach to platform adoption that meets users in their existing workflows rather than adding external training burdens.

We’ll showcase our journey from early adopter training sessions to an on-demand series accessible to all staff, with content broken into digestible chunks. By building a content review project within Konekt, we repurposed submittals and Issues to track content requests and required changes in our content platform providing IT with necessary documentation.

Through practical examples, you’ll see how this dual-purpose approach increases platform familiarity and confidence, creating a positive feedback loop that extends to project work. Leave with actionable insights for creative platform utilization beyond traditional project management—turning Konekt into a knowledge hub that drives sustained engagement.