OpenBuildings Designer vs. Newforma

OpenBuildings Designer is a multi-discipline building design application that enables BIM workflows to provide information-rich models for the design, analysis, simulation, and documentation of buildings. It incorporates OpenBuildings Designer computational design and energy services for building performance evaluation. OpenBuildings Designer immerses you in a 3D modeling environment and provides site content by referencing reality models. The application shares a catalog of design components across the project team. Built-in clash detection allows designers to coordinate building systems.

Newforma is project information management (PIM) software for the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner (AECO) industry. It connects the emails, instant messages, files, drawings, models, issues and contract documents spread across a project team's systems and makes them accessible in one searchable project record. Teams use Newforma to run construction administration workflows, control documents, coordinate BIM issues, while showing creating a complete audit log of who knew what and when.