Design Firm Management & Administration Report

A/E firm administrators and managers curious about what their peers consider significant in today’s practice can turn to the findings of a recent survey by Kermit Baker, AIA’s chief economist. Number 1 on the top-10 list is electronic construction documents (CDs). More than half (52%) of the firms that took part in the AIA Work-on-the-Boards surveys cited electronic CDs as an asset and also as a potential source of confusion and occasional enemy of prompt decisionmaking (see the figure, “Top 10 Emerging Trends”).