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August 23, 2007

The Blue Book of Building and Construction Integrates Bluebeam PDF Revu for Digital Takeoff and Markup Directly in BB-Bid Private Online Plan Room!

Westchester, N.Y. — The Blue Book has incorporated industry-leading software from Bluebeam^® into its BB-Bid Private Online Plan Room to facilitate the bidding process for commercial construction projects. Bluebeam specializes in PDF solutions for the construction, architectural and engineering industries and makes it simple to edit and markup PDF documents. Integrated into BB-Bid, Bluebeam “PDF Revu” will enable BB-Bid users to view, compare, takeoff and markup PDF documents in any BB-Bid Online Plan Room.

This new functionality will result in easier and more accurate bidding for everyone who uses the BB-Bid Private Online Plan Room.  To further facilitate bidding communication during this stage, markups and takeoffs can be saved to any document and sent with any RFI (Request for Information).  

“The Blue Book is committed to continuously enhancing our services to facilitate communication within the construction community.  I am very excited about this integration and am confident that it will be a valuable tool for all BB-Bid users – both the general contractors who post the plans and the subcontractors who bid from them,“ explained Rich Johnson, General Manager of The Blue Book.

All BB-Bid users will be able to view documents easily in PDF and create their markups and takeoffs electronically. The Blue Book is enabling additional functionality for their customers and general contractors that permits them to save these electronic takeoffs and markups within BB-Bid and access them remotely from anywhere.

As a further added-value, Bluebeam is offering a discount of over 50%, exclusively to Blue Book Customers and General Contractors on purchases of the full version of “PDF Revu”, which includes additional features and functionality for use outside of BB-Bid.

 “We are pleased to work with The Blue Book to bring useful and effective PDF technology to its community of general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers and further promote the value of an electronic workflow that is standardized in PDF,” said Richard Lee, President and CEO of Bluebeam Software, Inc.

For more information on this integration or the BB-Bid online bid management system, please call Product Manager, Ed Haege at 1-800-431-2584, ext. 3307 or via e-mail at ehaege@mail.thebluebook.com.

About The Blue Book…
Since 1913, The Blue Book of Building and Construction has provided the industry’s most comprehensive database of general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers working within the building and construction industry. This year, over 750,000 copies of The Blue Book were distributed – free of charge – to buyers of construction-related products and services throughout the United States. Online, thebluebook.com features over 1,000,000 company listings, display ads and profiles in 560 ‘Industry Classifications’ and is searchable by keyword or company name. BB-Bid, the company’s free online bid management system delivers over 250,000 project messages weekly.

About Bluebeam Software, Inc.
Bluebeam Software invents, develops, and commercializes PDF software intelligently designed to meet the needs of architecture, engineering, construction and business professionals.  Bluebeam produces high quality, easy to use products that allow users to improve communication and collaboration immediately with virtually no learning curve. For more information about the company, latest news, and purchasing information, visit Bluebeam Software at www.bluebeam.com.