Studio databases

What this covers

• Reference and image library

  Every render, reference and photograph the studio has made, searchable by description rather than by folder name.

• Material and finish library

  Materials held with their suppliers, lead times and the projects you used them on, so specifying does not start with a phone call.

• Detail library

  The details you have already drawn, found by what they do, so nobody redraws a junction the studio solved two years ago.

• Project database

  Every finished project with its areas, programme and outcomes, so a new brief starts from what you already know.

• Competition and precedent archive

  Past submissions and the references behind them, found in the week the next competition opens.

• Automatic filing

  Adding a project takes an upload. What arrives is described, tagged and filed without anyone doing it by hand.