An Acelab Partnership is a free membership to build up your firm's institutional knowledge and add resources to your projects. Members receive the following perks:
A dedicated account manager from our team of licensed architects
A material history audit and custom-built digital firm library - read more
Tailored building product recommendations from live product experts - learn more
Building Product Workshops for proactive staff education - learn more
Digitize Your Firm Library
The First & Last Library You'll Ever Build
On day one, our expert team will sit down for a kickoff workshop and learn about your current project standards. You can bring a developed spreadsheet library, a spec pdf, some messy and forgotten Google Sheet, or even an old built project schedule.
We’ll build your firm library and make recommendations to keep it updated so you can focus on designing beautiful architecture
We'll run through these with your team and identify a couple things:
What products and manufacturers are you confidently using today?
Are there certain products you are dissatisfied with?
What are your firm's long-term building product selection goals (i.e. reducing embodied energy, improving air quality, decreasing overall cost, etc.)
An Up-to-Date Virtual Knowledge Base
We'll draft up a firm library plan, and begin saving your current product favorites. Once we have this together, we'll invite your entire team to access one easy, digital and up-to-date home base for your products.
Any research we conduct on an individual project basis will be immediately integrated into this firm library and staff will be able to access this regardless of their work location.
On-Demand Architectural Experts
A Project Partner from Concept to Close-Out
Our product experts are all architects and spec writers with a clear understanding of the industry and project delivery challenges. They will take the time to learn about your design intent, performance goals, and client parameters for each and every project.
Tailored Product Recommendations on Every Project
Our experts will be available to your team for any questions through a given project. We will listen to your material challenges and work with our internal material research team to answer your queries. Here are some common questions we get from our members:
“ We would like to achieve a concrete-looking facade at a lower cost. What are our options? ”
“ We’re looking for a few lacquer alternatives that are less toxic with lower VOC content during application ”
“ Kawneer is too costly. Can we explore other envelope manufacturers with similar curtain wall performance? ”
We'll provide manufacturer recommendations, product substitutions options, and then connect you with our network of 700+ reps to make help decisions with confidence.
Building Product Workshops
How many time have you been sitting in a lunch & learn and thought, "where was this building product 3 months ago when I was working on that other project!" Say bye to that feeling with our Proactive Product Workshops.
How many time have you been sitting in a lunch & learn and thought to yourself, "where was this tutorial 3 months ago when I was researching that!?"
A New Way to Learn
Our team becomes your firm home base and identifies education opportunities in anticipation of project needs so you can always be one step ahead of your clients. We'll connect you with the right manufacturers to learn about product assemblies, building science, and details for your active projects and firm libraries.
This curated and timely approach is incredibly easy for 2 reasons:
Dynamic Library Concierge: Your dedicated Acelab team will regularly identify firm library improvements. We'll set that insulation CEU up before you're making that selection on an active project.
Building Product Syllabus: We'll make a clear workshop calendar and coordinate all of the learning sessions for your team in advance, so you can focus on delivering quality projects.