Thanks Lucas
As it happens I personally worked on this program as a potential national model while I was on the NationalAIA Board of Directors. For a number of reasons, some of which I'm frankly not clear about, I was not successful in getting it off the ground. When I came back to AIACC leadership I continued the efforts and am happy to finally be launched. It has been a five year journey.
I share your hope that we as professionals, through the AIA, will continue to find ways to have increasing influence on the price, features and license terms of the tools we rely on. We have considered extended this type of program to other tools, focused on the needs of small firms.
If you'd like to see what tools are being used by small firms, check out this survey: SmallofficeSoftware
Consider adding your firm to the list.
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Michael Malinowski AIA
AIACC President
Applied Architecture, Inc.
Sacramento CA
Original Message:
Sent: 11-15-2016 17:43
From: Lucas Gray
Subject: AIA Bim Software Member Benefit launched in California
This is great. My only question is, why isn't this a benefit that AIA National offers for all members?
It would be great if AIA members got discounts on all of the various software we use to practice in our profession. This is a great start and I would hope Adobe, AutoDesk and others join in partnering with the AIA. I'd love to have discounts on Revit, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
Lucas Gray Associate AIA, LEED BD+C