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Specpoint Overview

Deltek Specpoint addresses three major shortcomings of today's A/E design processes: best practices, design automation, and product selection.

Best Practices

Specpoint enables A/E professional firms to maintain their best practices throughout the entire design process of their projects. This platform preserves a firm's intellectual property as subject matter experts retire and leave the firm.

These best practices include the documentation and configuration of the underlying associative connections between project-based criteria called modifiers and performance properties or product property sets. These associations are the core to deploying the automation which ensures the optimization of a firm's preferred products and installation requirements during the design process.

The associations reduces the risk of specifying inappropriate manufacturer products and materials for a given project type or set of criteria such as building typology, geographic considerations, and industry standardized construction types.

Design Automation

Specpoint's design automation allows the proper use of best practices across a firm and its projects. The module focuses on selecting materials and products through a pictorial process and then the coordination of these selections to the BIM model to ensure complete and accurate project drawing and specification coordination.

The product selection process integrates with the product selection module by presenting listed products from various building product manufacturers within the product database.

Product Selection

For product selection, Specpoint provides an online storehouse of product listing cards for BPMs who want to present their products to designers in A/E firms during the design phase of a building design process. This module provides a self-serve environment for manufacturers to upload, maintain, and present specific products that fall within standard product types listed in the Specpoint product type listings.

BPMs can offer their products in different listing types:
  • Premium MasterSpec
  • Premium
  • Premium Proprietary
  • Manufacturer

These listing types allow BPMs to control the amount of information that their products include and the products’ usability in MasterSpec sections.

During the design process, Specpoint presents authors and designers in A/E firms with product listings in a visual and e-commerce-like environment.