 Welcome to this episode of Door Hardware Nerds. I'm your host, Mia Merrill. Today we're talking about ASSA Abloy's professional service offerings. To help me, we have Jason, Judy and Sean. Please introduce yourselves. Hi Mia, I'm Jason Grooms, opening studio of building technologies consultant on based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hi, I'm Judy Riley, design build construction services manager for the Northeast. Hi, I'm Sean Lodge, regional architectural director for region one and based out of a wonderful New Jersey. Welcome, everybody. Jason, can you give us some background on openings studio? Sure, opening studio is a software platform that we officially launched in 2010. We've got over 13,000 registered users and we are in 52 countries that we do business in as an organization. But the platform is really built around supporting our customers. And modernizing the way that people work with doors, frames and hardware products. So with our platform, we offer integrated end-to-end support for anybody that's dealing with door frame or hardware products. All right, so we're gonna talk about kind of a traditional path if you're going design build. So we'll start with architects. Sean, can you tell me how our professional services can help architects? Sure, I mean, I think everyone's familiar with our standard deliverables. The architectural team will provide division eight and division 28 coordination specifications for their architects. But where professional services really impacts are kind of fleshing that out. In the design development phase, for example, we are the professional services gives us the ability to perform site surveys and walkthroughs of existing conditions to confirm that the hardware we're specifying is accurate to the existing conditions. We are also able to change hats. If required, we can go beyond our standard fee-waved specification services and do a fee-based specification. If the building's standards requires a particular mix of hardware, if it's a little bit more involved, we can combine our specification services into that professional services package. We also have the ability to do things like electrical elevations and add that information into the spec services. And finally, at the end of the project in CA, we were able to provide job site inspections and punch lists to the architect as part of the professional services package geared specifically towards them. Wonderful. All right. So we're gonna move over to contractors. Judy, can you tell us how professional services supports contractors? Sure, Mia. Professional services supports contractors through the pre-construction activities. We can also assist with project management working with their submittals and verifying doors, frames, and hardware becoming more complicated so we can do project management services by coordinating the submittals within the software platform. We can also provide site services, project services such as project punchouts and smart tagging of openings. We can also work with fire door inspections. And we also integrate with construction hardware, software such as ProTech. And we can also work with plan grid and procure at the end of the construction process by integrating the opening studio software platform and information with typical construction services software that are typically used by contractors. Great. And then we get towards the end of our project and we have our owner. So Jason, how does professional services support owners? As it relates to projects, we are able to provide an owner with a dynamic deliverable for doors, frames, and hardware. And typically what an owner gets at the end of a project is the copy of a PDF documentation showing what was approved from the CHD from the contract hardware distributor. We're able to provide them with information that's more accurate that they can also use and integrate into the processes for managing their facilities that they already have in place. So the information that we're able to provide through Opening Studio can support them with fire door inspections, with general maintenance. We have the ability to support them with managing their key system. And we also can support some non-project related functions as well, such as annual fire door inspections, access control upgrades as well. That's great. So are there any final thoughts anybody wants to share? Yeah, it's important to realize that with these professional services, what we're really doing is we're extending full support, especially to our architect partners for all phases of the project. I wanna go back and really highlight the importance of a site survey and a walkthrough in the beginning of the project, especially if there are doors that are existing to remain or hardware standards that need to be maintained or any tricky elements, having someone actually physically be able to go out to the site and catalog that and then transmit that information into Opening Studios as critical when we get to the specification writing phase. And then again, at the end of the project, when we're doing the final punch, who's going to take the liability and the responsibility of ensuring that the hardware has been delivered, not only delivered correctly, but is operating as intended? Traditionally, that's the architect's responsibility and they might not always have the knowledge or the wherewithal or even really the time to take on that extra burden of responsibility. That's something that we can shoulder for them with our professional services and something that lives within the ecosystem of Opening Studio. Yeah, and to add to what Sean just said, we're really using our technology to enhance the best in class support that we provide to our customers. So specifically as it relates to architects, if you're designing your project on a platform like BIM 360, that enables us really to take most of the responsibility away for coordinating doorframe and hardware information, whether we're providing that initial support with a site survey if you've got existing information, pulling our own information from your model and then coordinating that information on the back end. So really the heavy lift as far as coordinating information is on us and not on the architect in that instance. All right, well, thank you everybody for coming on today. If you would like any more information about ASSA Abloy's professional services, I've included a link below. 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