AIA Materials Pledge

Hey Team, To wrap this up, let me say first and foremost THANK YOU for the 40 some odd people that contributed to the MURAL as well as the conversation we had on Friday. In general our discussion on Friday seemed to meet whatever need we had for group catharsis around our reporting experience as part of the beta test. Per Lona, 92 firms reported and 2/3 of the firms that reported elected to report at least one project each.   As a very, very high level summary of the discussion we had on Friday:

1. At a firm level we all generally found value in the questions that were asked and they seem to have prompted some good self-reflection in our firms about tools, processes, etc. We seem to be hungry as a group for more information at an industry scale of the breadth of tools folks are using in their material resaearch and how frequently some of these tools are (or are not) used.
2. At a project level, folks are looking for a bulk upload option. A handful of folks discovered they could "break" the form and/or that it would only accept 3-ish projects before folks had to start secondary applications.
3. At a project level, folks were curios how providing data at multiple points in a project's development (DD, CD, CA) might change the insights that folks get out. In general an earlier tracking tool (DD) might help folks capture intentions, the as-proposed CD documentation would let people capture what made it into the set, and a CA option might highlight variations between what gets specified and what gets built.
4. At a product level, most folks how that we get out of the weeds in the next reporting cycle. There was a proposal on the table that this might be better aligned with spec divisions with questions like "where is available most/least available" relative to the pillars of the Materials Pledge so we could better focus industry-wide advocacy with manufacturers.
5. As it stands, the level of granularity required by the product-scale reporting takes more time than big firms in particular can likely bear because the number of projects times the number of products in those projects is an overly time intenstive lift with an unclear payback.

I don't think I can sufficiently synethsize the MURAL, so I've attached it as a PDF - I'm 95% sure there's nothing identifiable in there for anyone who contributed. As far as next step, stay tuned for the By the Numbers report coming from AIA and future webinars from AIA that are anticipated after the report's publication. Aley