Set Your Firm Up For Success With Best Practices

Credit type: 1 AIA LU.

Over time, many A&E firms can accumulate a vast amount of knowledge, experience, and industry expertise. However, in many cases – particularly if your company doesn’t have a way to record or preserve that information – it can be lost when an employee leaves the company. In this session, you’ll learn how to create a best practices library that can help you increase project efficiencies, preserve employee knowledge, and set up your company for long-term success.

Learning Objective

• Learn how to create a best practices library.
• Discover how to identify and capture best practices data across construction documents.
• Understand how to utilize data from the best practices library to improve project decisions and productivity.
• Learn how to use best practices to teach younger professionals and provide a solid foundation for professional growth.

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  Jeff Potter
  Product Manager Specifications
  Deltek

  Jeff Potter

  

  Jeff graduated from North Dakota State University in 2013 and started his specifications career in 2015 at HMC Architects. It didn’t take long for Jeff to fall in love with specifications and the world of architecture, ultimately becoming the head specifier at HMC Architects. Jeff currently works at Deltek as a Specifications Solutions Product Manager helping to shift the industry towards a new approach to specifications.

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  Aaron Seward
  Editor in Chief
  The Architect's Newspaper

  Aaron Seward

  

  Aaron Seward is Editor-in-Chief of The Architect’s Newspaper. Seward is an award-winning editor whose career has centered on interpreting architecture for the profession and the general public. He was editor of Texas Architect magazine for six years and prior to that held several positions at AN, including executive editor. In addition to those publications, Seward’s writing on architecture, culture, and the built environment has appeared in Architect, Curbed, Domus, Metropolis, and other publications. He has a BA in Literature, Writing and the Arts from The New School for Social Research.