Benchmarking: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Architecture Firms

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Many architecture firms make decisions based on intuition rather than data-driven insights, often overlooking critical performance metrics. Leveraging data from over 1,500 architecture and engineering firms, BQE has compiled a comprehensive report on industry best practices for key performance indicators (KPIs) that all firms should be monitoring. In this webinar, we will explore the findings of our Benchmarking Report and provide actionable strategies for firms to enhance their performance across each metric.

Learning Objectives

• Define benchmarking and explain why is it important
• List the KPIs tracked across the industry and summarize the results of the data
• Analyze strategies a firm could use to improve in each of these areas
• Identify how benchmarking change based on firm size or industry

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  Lucas Gray

  Director of Content and Community

  BQE

  Lucas Gray

  

  As the Director of Content & Community at BQE, Lucas Gray, fosters community across the AEC industries, generating helpful content and advice from his wealth of experience in architectural design and business consulting to help firms improve their business operations. After co-founding Propel Studio Architecture in Portland, Oregon in 2013, he played a key role in business development, marketing, and design, growing his firm by over half a million dollars in annual revenue. Lucas has designed over 50 Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and various housing developments, custom homes, and retail interiors. He has worked internationally in Shanghai, Bangkok, and Berlin, specializing in residential projects and leading team-focused design processes. Passionate about the built environment, urban planning, and public art, Lucas also writes about these topics on his blog and creates abstract art in his spare time.

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  Steve Burns

  FAIA Chief Creative Officer

  BQE Software

  Steve Burns

  

  Steven Burns, FAIA, is a global thought leader and speaker on topics related to firm management and emerging technologies. He is the founder of The Well-Designed Firm, a nascent business consultancy helping A&E firms that wish to make their business as elegant as the architecture they create. Steven received his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, spent 7 years at SOM, and founded his own architecture firm, BBA Architects which he sold in 2007. He created ArchiOffice, the popular office and project management software, which he sold to BQE Software in 2010, which later evolved into BQE CORE.