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The Product Research Landscape
In the fast-paced world of architectural design and construction, professionals are constantly navigating the complexity of sourcing the right building products. From ensuring compliance with building codes or evaluating environmental impact, the search for information often leads to a fragmented landscape of product listing marketplaces. Architects and industry professionals juggle multiple product listing tools that cater to a specific need, yet none offer a holistic solution. This cumbersome process not only drains valuable time but also complicates the decision-making process.
We’re excited to introduce UpCodes Products Library. It is a groundbreaking feature designed to change how industry professionals research and select building products. Imagine a single, streamlined platform that offers comprehensive access to product certifications, properties, BIM files, up-to-date specifications, and sample ordering. It’s not just a tool; it’s a transformative ecosystem created to simplify product selection, ensuring that your projects not only meet but exceed industry standards. Let’s dig into how UpCodes is setting a new benchmark for research efficiency and integration with building products.
The Challenge of Existing Solutions
The current landscape of product-listing marketplaces poses significant challenges for architects and industry professionals. Things are fragmented with separate platforms for EPDs, detailed product properties, BIM files, physical sample ordering, or up-to-date specifications. Each platform serves a unique purpose, yet none offers a comprehensive solution, forcing industry professionals to manage multiple subscriptions and navigate through a maze of interfaces.
Furthermore, because these product-listing marketplaces don’t have access to building codes or assemblies, they fall short of providing a holistic view for industry professionals. This creates a gap in the decision-making process, forcing professionals to seek out consulting services or additional resources to ensure product selections meet compliance and performance standards. This can also force industry professionals to blindly reuse products from prior projects or rely on word-of-mouth recommendations, instead of finding the best products for their project.
Industry professionals also have challenges when comparing products for a specific use case. They often have to navigate multiple product manufacturer websites and product listing tools, and then analyze that information manually. It can be hard for industry professionals to make fair comparisons on products, because the information is not shown to users in a standardized format and sometimes that information is even harder to find.
This disjointed approach not only complicates the workflow but also poses risks to project timelines and budgets. Without direct access to codes and assemblies, industry professionals must navigate through multiple platforms and cross-reference information to ensure their designs comply with local regulations and industry standards. This increases the cognitive load for industry professionals and also detracts from the core focus of their work, leading to inefficiencies and potential for error.
Introducing Products Library
In response to the fragmented landscape of building product research and selection, UpCodes is excited to introduce Products Library – a revolutionary feature designed to serve as a unified platform for architects and industry professionals. It aggregates a comprehensive suite of resources, enabling users to access product certifications, detailed properties, BIM files, current specifications, and options for ordering samples – all in one place. UpCodes Products Library simplifies the product selection process by consolidating these essential elements, ensuring professionals can find everything they need without navigating across multiple platforms.
UpCodes Products Library is an integrated solution that addresses the key challenges industry professionals face. With a focus on streamlined access to a wide range of building products, assemblies, and building codes, it empowers users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. Products Library not only facilitates research but also enhances project planning and execution by providing easy access to vital information that ensures compliance and performance standards are met.
UpCodes’ Integrated Ecosystem
With Products Library, industry professionals have an integrated ecosystem that combines seamless access to building codes, assemblies, and product information in one platform. This comprehensive approach not only streamlines the research process but also ensures that compliance requirements inform product selection. By offering a unified source for all necessary data, Products Library limits the need for professionals to cross-reference multiple sources, significantly reducing the risks associated with oversight and non-compliance.
A unified platform also facilitates a more efficient workflow, allowing users to quickly identify products that a project’s design needs and regulatory obligations. With UpCodes, the guesswork in ensuring compliance is reduced, empowering professionals to make confident product decisions swiftly and streamlining the product research and procurement process.
Working with Building Product Manufacturers
Our goal is to create a comprehensive building products library, where building product manufacturers can showcase their products, and ensure their offerings are visible at the crucial moment of project planning and product selection. Industry professionals need access to a broad range of products with detailed information and resources at their fingertips. We are working with building product manufacturers to add their products to UpCodes.
Who Products Library Is For
UpCodes Products Library is designed for industry professionals who are at the forefront of design projects and product selection. Whether you’re an architect, interior designer, engineer, or construction professional, Products Library will simplify your workflow and streamline your product research and selection.
Key Benefits of UpCodes Products Library
- Gain a clear understanding of the compliance requirements for products with related codes and assemblies.
- Leverage an integrated library of building products, assemblies, diagrams, and code adoptions.
- Discover building products that meet a project’s performance criteria and filter by CSI division.
- View a product’s sustainability metrics, properties, BIM files, and up-to-date specifications.
- Contact a manufacturer and order samples of the product(s) you are assessing.
- Easily add primary and alternative products to a project’s ‘basis of design’ that comply with performance.
- Bookmark the building products you want to curate for a specific project or reuse for future projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many building products does UpCodes have? You have access to over 70,000 building products currently. Products Library will continue to expand as our team researches building products and adds them, and we partner with a growing number of building product manufacturers who can add their products directly.
- How do I get access to UpCodes Products Library? You don’t need an UpCodes account to get access to product listings on our platform. However, in order to gain full access to all resources associated with a specific building product, you will need to create an UpCodes account. You can do this by creating a free account or starting a free trial. Once you have access, you should be able to navigate through building products library, filter through the listings, or search across the listing.
- How do I bookmark products to a project in UpCodes? When viewing a specific product, you can click the ‘Bookmark’ icon in the top right of the product listing. If you are viewing products when searching for or filtering, you can save a product to a project, by hovering over the product listing link and clicking the ‘Bookmark’ icon.
- Can I build templates for the products I bookmark into an UpCodes project? Yes, creating an UpCodes Project is the quickest way to curate your product research. At any point in your research, you can save the specific project as a template, so you don’t have to start from scratch the next time you have a similar project.