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– Lunch & Learn

Today’s Agenda:

Introduce three new, free digital solutions that will help minimize those challenges and improve your productivity

Incorporate ALL of your feedback into the continued development of this presentation and our AEC Solutions

So let’s get started!

Discuss your challenges and those identified by other architects within three critical phases of your daily workflow: Design, Collaboration and Distribution

– Lunch & Learn

Over two million page views monthly at thebluebook.com!

• Over 1,200 projects every week• Over 8,500 General Contractors using BB-Bid

• 40,000 keywords searched monthly at bpmselect.com!• 52,294 manufacturer pages viewed

• Over 90,000 downloads of Vu360 YTD • Over 300,000 subcontractors working digitally in our network

Network Activity: 250 local Construction Professionals Nationwide!

• Over 30,000 face to face contacts with GC’s• Over 10,000 face to face contacts with the design community• More than 1200 Lunch and Learns last year

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line.

DesignDesignFind and CommunicateProduct Information

Key Workflow Challenges:

1. Time and expense required to find, select and communicate product information

• Design

• Cost

• Performance

• Availability (Go Local for LEED Credits)

• Environmental (Go Green)

• Safety/Liability Concerns

• Replacement/Maintenance Others?

How many product selections do you make on a typical project?

Critical Factors:

Share Files and Data with your Design Team

Collaborate/DistributeCollaborate/Distribute

Find and CommunicateProduct Information


DesignDesign Key Workflow Challenges:

2. Lack of targeted, complete and greener product resources

• Google – too much wasted time, too much noise

• Sweets – shrinking volumes, shrinking choices

• Arcat – incomplete list of manufacturers

• Internal Catalogs – is all that paper up-to-date?

• Brainstorming – idea sharing with your team

3. Inconsistent layout of manufacturer websites making it time-consuming to navigate and find relevant product content

Now there’s a better solution…

How do you solve this problem today?

4. Difficult to communicate product information to your project team effectively and efficiently





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Now find the right products AND communicate theright information all with one complete solution!

Let’s take a closer look at BPM and Vu360

• BPM Select is a powerful building product search engine packaged inside Vu360, the industry’s most complete, free PDF viewer

• Designed by Architects for the entire AEC community

• Over 6 million product pages indexed from nearly 12,000 BPMs

• Most up-to-date information from manufacturers

• Standardized format for viewing relevant product information

• Organized by CSI Divisions

• Leverages Google technology – but eliminates the noise!

• Provides direct access to local suppliers and installers

• Simple request for catalogs, samples, etc.

• Markup and communicate product information with Vu360’s “Highlighter” and “SnapShot” features

• Email a colleague

Make BPMSelect.com your default Home Page!






DesignDesignFind and CommunicateProduct Information

Now BPM Select can be integrated right into your everyday workflow as part of the toolbar.

The BPM Select Content Connecter is a small plug-in that is compatible with AutoCAD Arch 2010 and 2011 as well as REVIT.


DesignDesign

3. Control • You need to be able to invite members of your Design Team to

contribute.

• You may currently have to set access privileges.

• You want to track messaging history and revisions.

Key Workflow Challenges:Find and CommunicateProduct Information

Current Process for Collaboration During Design…

1. Building your Design Team• You need specialty engineers.

• You need manufacturers and suppliers for product information.

• You need contractors for project budgeting.

2. Costs• There are costs associated with collaboration.

• These costs may or may not be shared with members of your Design Team.



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3. Contractors ability to work digitally• CD & FTP are clumsy, lack consistency

• File formats vary from firm to firm

• Special technology required (potentially expensive)

Key Workflow Challenges:Find and CommunicateProduct Information

1. Maintaining control• You have no way to know what versions of your plan they

are bidding from.

• You have no way to know what versions of your plan they are building from.

2. Costs• You have distribution costs.

• You may or may not be passing these off to the GC & Subs.



Current Process for Distributing Documents During Design…


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Your Documents, Your Team, Connectedthrough the SyncWare Private Plan and Design Room

• Free Desktop tool that keeps the docs on your computer in “sync” with your Project Team

• Secure through simple “Invitation to View/Bid” message

• Easy to ‘drag and drop’ documents into the Design Room

• Accepts all file types, including CAD, BIM and Spec files which can be viewed within NavisWorks and Revit.

• Keep the project private to your Outlook Address Book

• Leverage the entire Blue Book Network

• Provides reporting on “who looked at what docs”

•Allows you and the owner to give access to bidding GCs

•Allows GCs to bid to their Subs and Suppliers

Why SyncWare?


SyncWare Tutorial



So, let’s review…

DesignDesign

DistributeDistribute

Challenge: You need to save time, money and work greener with more complete product information and tools that enable communication with your building team.

Solution: BPM Select and Vu360 – a fast, FREE way to search, spec and communicate information…smarter!

Challenge: You need greater control and communication ability while decreasing the costs of your plan document distribution.

Solution: SyncWare – a FREE desktop tool that works to keep your plans and your team “in-sync” while providing you with more secure, controlled and cost-effective document distribution.

CollaborateCollaborate Challenge: You need to share documents and communicate easily and securely with your design team.

Solution: SyncWare – a FREE desktop tool that works to keep your design documents and your design team “in-sync”

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