TowerPinkster - Discipline Resources

A walkthrough of Tower Pinkster’s Discipline Resources intranet pages (named 'Doti'), demonstrating the Architecture discipline guide. The content describes navigation elements (smart index, quick links, post/grid blocks), staff listings, onboarding materials (90-day PDF), building code pages, terminology/standards, and a departmental resource manual to support professional development.
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Hi, this is Koei from Knowledge Architecture. Let's take a look at how Tower.
Pinkster has created guides for each of the firm's disciplines on their intranet Doti.
Named for the pink dot in their logo.
The Discipline Resources landing page found under Practice and Standards is a full width.
Smart navigation block in Index layout, limited to five resources per category. I can see when I open the Content Outliner that the index is showing the title and contents of a guide.
For each of the disciplines. Nice because it is a smart index. Any changes made to the pages nested.
Just below and two levels down reflect automatically in the index list. Let's take a closer look at the first Discipline Architecture. I can expand the index list of.
Pages here to see what's included.
When I click the Architecture heading, it takes me to the first page of the Architecture Guide, an introduction to the Architectural department. We start with some inspiring introductory text outlining the content and purpose of the Architecture Guide. Then we have a quick links nav block with stock icons that will take you to relevant pages in Dottie's Standards and Codes section. Next is a post block in grid layout showing the four most recent posts filtered on hashtags related to Architecture.
Department.
Leadership and all team members are displayed in two Smart Employee blocks filtered on Architecture job titles. The next page for onboarding new team.
Members describes and then lays out the.
90 day experience as a PDF in a single document block and also includes a basic employee block of helpful contacts. There is a page of building code.
Information for Michigan and one for Indiana, Helpful terminology standards and then we find the resource manual for the Tower Pinkster Architectural Department, which offers direction to team members on the production of high quality construction documents. Each of these pages include the purpose, content, coordination notes, examples and contacts for a series of sheets in the architectural drawings. Additional product resources and general resources and tools can be found at the end of the guide. Tower Pinkster's Discipline Specific Resource guides support employees in their professional development and provide the resources and tools they need to understand processes and standards related to their specific area of work. Thank you to Tower Pinkster for allowing us to share their Discipline resource pages.
Please reach out if you have any.
Questions and happy building.
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