benefits of use :: design professionals
Membership Participation
The AEPlans service has been specifically developed by design professionals for design professionals. A major benefit of the AEPlans structure is that its policies are controlled by design professionals with similar interests and needs. Consultative Participants are selected from design professionals throughout the country to ensure regional interests and issues are considered in organizational decisions.
AEPlans provides multiple ways for direct participation in policy through advisory board participation or by contacting an AEPlans representative.
Useful Tools/Labor Savings
As part of the AEPlans service, design professionals receive software that converts the drawings, assembles all the information required for a project (including specifications, bidders list, etc.) and keeps it organized in one simple local file structure. The software also takes care of later additions such as addenda and automatically uploading the information to the AEPlans site once it is prepared. When the project is completed, it enables the design professional to produce an archived record of the entire project on CD for future use.
This software is designed to simplify the process and save labor costs for the design professional by helping manage and by keeping all project information in one handy location.
Real Time Activity Monitoring
AEPlans provides document originators with access to on-line reports on data such as who has visited your project and various other activities. This allows you to ensure, in real time before the bid closes, that bidders you want to have involved are involved.
Improved Client Service
By using AEPlans, design professionals are able to offer improved service to their clients by providing:
- Better quality more accurate documents resulting in fewer bidding errors
- Faster distribution reducing their project cycle time
- Broader distribution resulting in more potential bidders and more competitive bids
- Automatic Addenda notification ensuring completeness and timely notification of changes.
Improved Document Security
AEPlan's read-only format keeps proprietary design information from being easily copied for unauthorized re-use and through an encrypted encoding ensures documents cannot be tampered without the knowledge of the recipient.
AEPlans origination software also provides a way for the document originator to create an identifying digital signature that is encrypted and attached to the document. The digital signature may be read by the Secure MaxReader software as a means of verifying the authenticity of the document upon receipt.
Better Quality Enhances Professional Image
AEPlans produces original copy quality documents no matter how many times they are copied.
Greater Industry Benefit
Design professionals, by their unique position as originators of the documents, are in an ideal position to lead the movement toward greater efficiency in the industry by implementing and supporting paperless distribution of construction documents. AEPlans provides all the tools necessary for digital document distribution today.
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