SPie Meeting to show how specifying can benefit businesses.
Press Release Summary:
Specifiers Properties information exchange, sponsored by National Institute of Building Sciences, will showcase how common data standard can help designers and specifiers to manage their requirements and select and specify products. Product manufacturers, including GE Lighting, Eaton, BASF, US Gypsum, Wheatland, and others, will show how their products can be distributed using buildingSMART Industry Foundation Classes through software such as Revit and e-SPECS.
Original Press Release:
The Future of Specifying is Near -- Learn How It Will Benefit Your Business
Specifiers' Properties information exchange (SPie)
Ecobuild America, Washington, DC
Wednesday, December 9, 8:30 am - 12:00 noon, Room 154
Come witness the future of specifying in the making.
The Specifiers Properties information exchange (SPie), sponsored by the National Institute of Building Sciences, will showcase how a common data standard can help designers and specifiers to manage their requirements and select and specify products. Product manufacturers, including GE Lighting, Eaton, BASF, US Gypsum, Wheatland and others, will show how their products can be distributed using buildingSMART Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) through software such as Revit and e-SPECS. This new technology will have an enormous impact on the industry. See how the comparative costs against conventional practice can lead to a win-win proposition for designers, specifiers, product manufacturers and trade associations.
Agenda:
An introduction to design, specification and handover
The business problems
The role of buildingSMART, IFC and Classification standards
The SCIP project
Architectural examples from product manufacturers
Electrical example from product manufacturers
Live demonstration of design, specification and product selection
Next steps: Panel Q&A on the roll-out of SPie
SPie is Free and open to all registered attendees. Attendees who register for any Ecobuild America conference package or Exhibit Hall and Keynote Pass should present their badge at the door for admission. To register solely for the SPie meeting, please fill out the registration form and select Exhibit Hall and Keynote Pass during step 3. Enter promotional code NIBSF09 and the $45 fee will be waived.
