Arc 3 of the Next AEC Tech Stack series is about your data. Most firms are sitting on years of project information, and every company in this arc says it can turn that into an asset. This first episode asks what that history is worth, and why so little of it gets used again.

Marty Rozmanith at Skema starts with lawyers, whose old cases keep their value for a whole career. Randall Stevens at AVAIL calls project knowledge a capital resource, and says the part firms never capture is why a decision was made. Aaron Vorwerk and Mike Soldan at Egnyte separate a pile of files from data you can use. Ross Wagner at Pirros and Dimitrie Stefanescu at Speckle describe what leaves when your most experienced people do. Matt Wash and Ariel Cooke-Zamora at Bimbeats show what firm data can tell you about your own time and fees. Sasha Crotty at Autodesk says to start with the question you want answered. Chris Razzell at dRofus takes on who pays for good data. Roderick Bates (Chaos), Scott Reynolds (UpCodes), and Theodoros Galanos weigh in on small firms, public data, and why waiting for clean data is the wrong move.

This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders, BIM managers, and design technologists who know the project archive is worth something and can't say how to get at it.

Get all the show notes, links, and enter to win a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, courtesy of series partner Graitec, at trxl.co/246

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