Case Study: BDP achieves 4X ROI and major risk reduction with Newforma Project Center

BDP Enhances Construction Project Efficiency and Risk Management With Newforma

BDP is a major international architecture, design and engineering practice headquartered in London with multidisciplinary teams working on large, multi‑national projects. The firm struggled with a cumbersome project information system that didn’t integrate with Outlook or BIM, kept projects in isolation, and created risk from misplaced information and overlooked actions.

BDP implemented Newforma Project Center, which integrated with existing tools, won almost immediate user adoption, and let teams file and link emails, RFIs, drawings and models to projects. The change cut routine information‑search time (users save ~20 minutes/day), eliminated FTP costs (about £20,000/year), unlocked incremental fees via contract management, and delivered a conservative 4X annual ROI—paying back its cost in roughly 12 weeks—while significantly reducing risk and improving cross‑project collaboration and client service.

BDP

Alistair Kell

Information & Technology Director