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Arc 3: The AEC Data Play | The Next AEC Tech Stack

Arc 3 of The Next AEC Tech Stack: The AEC Data Play. What's worth capturing from your project history, who should own it, and what you're signing up for when a platform sits between you and your data.

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Graitec provides AEC software, training, and expert support to help architects, engineers, and construction teams design, build, and manage projects more effectively.

Arc 3: The AEC Data Play

Every project you finish generates data your firm mostly throws away. The firms treating it as an asset are pulling ahead of the firms treating it as exhaust, and the same move creates a lock-in risk: a platform sitting between you and your own project history is very hard to remove once it's embedded. So this arc asks where the data actually lives, who owns it, and what "AI-ready" means once the marketing is stripped away.

Three episodes, working through it with the people building these tools and the people using them every day. Releasing Thursdays, October 15 through October 29.

Arc 3 presented by
Speckle

Speckle makes design data actually usable across projects, so your team can trust it, own it, act on it, and make better decisions faster.

With support from
AVAIL

AVAIL's content management system (CMS) helps architecture and engineering teams find, manage, and reuse their Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other technical content in one place.

Episodes in this Arc

7: Someone Already Figured This Out
7: Someone Already Figured This Out
Coming soon
8: It's on the Server Somewhere
Coming soon
9: Whose Data Is It, Anyway?

Theodoros Galanos
Theodoros Galanos
Generative AI Leader
Aurecon
Sasha Crotty
Sasha Crotty
VP, AEC Data
Autodesk
Randall Stevens
Randall Stevens
CEO & Founder
AVAIL
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Product Operations Lead
Bimbeats
Matt Wash
Matt Wash
CEO
Bimbeats
Roderick Bates
Roderick Bates
Senior Director, Product Operations
Chaos
Chris Razzell
Chris Razzell
Chief Revenue Officer
dRofus
Aaron Vorwerk
Aaron Vorwerk
AEC Practice Leader, Architects + Owners
Egnyte
Mike Soldan
Mike Soldan
SVP, Global Technology Solutions
Egnyte
Ross Wagner
Ross Wagner
Head of Industry & Product Strategy
Pirros
Marty Rozmanith
Marty Rozmanith
CTO & Co-Founder
Skema
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Dimitrie Stefanescu
CEO & Co-Founder
Speckle
Scott Reynolds
Scott Reynolds
CEO & Co-Founder
UpCodes

In their words

Moments worth reading twice, pulled straight from the tape.

“Only 20% of all the stuff that I've ever learned in the technology side of this is still relevant. … Lawyers, their case backlog almost never goes invalid.”
Marty Rozmanith
Skema
“A lawyer that's been practicing for 50 years is that much more valuable than a lawyer that's been practicing for two years. And I'm thinking, well, it should be that way for architects, but with architects, there was no real way of capturing things and reusing them like lawyers could.”
Marty Rozmanith
Skema
“There's definitely value that hasn't been captured post-delivery of those projects … what you really want is a capital resource. It's an economic and financial term.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“We get the cart in front of the horse and we think we're just going to put this tool into place and it can leverage all of our historic knowledge when we really don't have historic knowledge. We have a pile of stuff that's not well understood.”
Aaron Vorwerk
Egnyte
“For 15 years, ever since we've had digital capture of most of this stuff, everyone's been saying, that's your goldmine. That's your IP. … The issue has been being able to turn it into usable structured content and be able to do something with it.”
Mike Soldan
Egnyte
“The firms not doing anything with the data are just missing out on a valuable learning resource. It's sitting on a mountain of books that you're not reading.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Bimbeats
“So you no longer need to find Joe, who's been on top of all the hospital projects, but now he's one year away from retirement.”
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Speckle
“If someone's retired at this point, you can still tap into their work and allow the team to learn from that work to understand how that work came together.”
Ross Wagner
Pirros
“We have plenty of information about what got done. What we don't have very good information about is why the decisions were made.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“How do you know what bad is if you don't ever capture bad? … Or if you're training a brand-new person, how do you show them what bad looks like?”
Sasha Crotty
Autodesk
“The thing that always comes up is, you have to get your data right. That's the mantra. … What does it even mean, get your data right? It's impossible. They are literally fighting a war they cannot win.”
Theodoros Galanos
“Essentially, you're saying, oh, I will just sit here by the exhaust and try to very quickly manufacture the right data out of what comes out. Instead, you should be saying, I need to change that engine.”
Theodoros Galanos
“You could take all 27,000 of those details, and I could give them to you, and I just throw them out on the floor. You'd go, they're worthless. The same details with now an organizational interface and metadata around them allows you to get to the one out of the 27,000 that you need is where most of the value is.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“The weekly time sheet. … There's the fictitious one that you do on a Friday afternoon when you're trying to remember what you've done versus, well, what did I actually do?”
Matt Wash
Bimbeats
“Almost like the old school library you'd have had within a corner of the architectural studio. A more modern phrase might be the democratized organizational intelligence layer.”
Chris Razzell
dRofus
“What does a small firm do? I've done six bathroom renovations or something like that. That's not a training set.”
Roderick Bates
Chaos
“It's all public information, but what most people don't realize about Google Maps is the complexity behind that very easy interface. … It's the same for us. It's spending years and years and years building the infrastructure that can digest all this code.”
Scott Reynolds
UpCodes
“Don't put 15 years of files into a cloud-based repository just for the sake of doing that. Understand what is it that you're trying to decide.”
Sasha Crotty
Autodesk
“How are you going to convince a client that you're going to build their 21st hospital better than the previous 20 hospitals that you've built if you don't have access to the data of those previous 20 hospitals?”
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Speckle

Arc 3 partners

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Autodesk

Autodesk makes software that helps people design, build, and operate the buildings, infrastructure, products, and experiences that shape our world.
Bentley

Bentley Systems develops infrastructure engineering software that infrastructure professionals use to design, build, and operate better, more resilient infrastructure.
Bimbeats

Bimbeats is the tool that shows you how the rest of your tech stack is working.
dRofus

For building projects worldwide, dRofus simplifies data-driven space planning and requirements management, making it the leading planning and data management solution for the global building industry.
Egnyte

Egnyte's AI-powered platform helps organizations unlock the full potential of their content, efficiently, securely, and responsibly.
Pirros

Pirros is the AI project hub that helps architecture and engineering firms find, reuse, and standardize Revit details and families across every project.
Skema

Skema turns your hard-won design knowledge into a reusable asset, so every new project builds on what you've already proven.
UpCodes

UpCodes is the AI-native QA/QC platform that helps architects, engineers, and contractors research, coordinate, and verify building code requirements, reducing risk and keeping projects on track.
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