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Specpoint Overview

Deltek Specpoint addresses the following major shortcomings in today's A/E design processes: design automation and product selection.

Design Automation

Design Automation is re-envisioning the way A/E firms design and construct buildings. The module enables you to capture, analyze, and deploy information at scale. Specpoint offers baseline associations for all project elements, otherwise known as assemblies, families, and product types. Each element maintains either administrative, performance, product, or execution properties. You can maintain each element or property as a best practice that you can deploy to build another project that has a similar location, size, scale, scope, and/or owner. By mitigating tedious tasks, professionals have the freedom to focus on coordinating assembly information in early design phases, all the way to accurate product selection during design development.

Product Selection

Specpoint evolves Product and Material Selection to create a more informed, productive, and inclusive experience. The platform maintains an updated library and assets that relate to manufacturers and products. Each manufacturer or product is represented by a card. Product cards contain product names, properties, and resources that have gone through a rigorous approval process by Deltek. Selected product cards will update the product type properties dynamically and detect inconsistencies between products. If a design professional has modified product type properties, the product selection dialog will update results to correlate with modifications. Not only is the product data always the latest, but the process of inserting or changing the information is automated. Specpoint is creating alignment between Design Professionals and Product Manufacturers in an effort to transcend the traditional method of developing designs.