Solving drawing management headaches
Accurate drawings of buildings - an invaluable business tool
The efficient management of drawings in paper or computer formats is an important issue for many modern businesses. Accurate drawings are vital to a wide range of business functions.
The benefits of computerised drawings (CAD) are now so widely recognised that they are almost indispensible to the managers of commercial buildings. A CAD drawing provides the basis for:
facilities management
space planning
refurbishment
health and safety planning
fire safety and disabled access planning
merchandising
valuation
rating
apportionment of service charges
preparation of leases
Having accurate drawings quickly available can give all sorts of projects a flying start.
However, if you regularly make use of drawings of buildings, you may recognise some or all of these problems:
Legacy paper drawings can be converted to CAD but often at an unacceptably high cost.
Drawings, even CAD drawings, cannot always be trusted. They are sometimes inaccurate and very often have become out of date.
Drawings prepared by surveyors who do not have an architectural understanding of buildings and building projects are often inaccurate and misleading.
Paper drawings, in particular, get mislaid. They are difficult to restore and difficult to retrieve.
Version control, particularly of CAD drawings, can become undisciplined and it may be difficult to tell whether a particular drawing has been superseded.
Incompatible CAD layers and symbols may require hours of work to rectify them.
Printing or plotting drawings requires a high level of expertise.
The biggest problem of all is, of course, a complete lack of existing drawings for a particular building when required at short notice. Nowadays no refurbishment project can be contemplated and no major building can be efficiently managed without a full set of existing CAD drawings.
GLM have the answers
We will:
Create a duplicate and indexed archive of all your existing drawings, scan any paper drawings for storage as bitmaps and keep them safe on a secure server. If necessary we will send an experienced and methodical technician to visit your premises and go through your archives.
Issue copies of paper drawings, bitmap images or CAD drawings (if available) on request by email or post.
With support from our off-shore partners (in India), convert paper or bitmap images to CAD drawings on request highly economically.
Receive drawings from designers and manage the handover of "as-built" drawings and Health & Safety Files.
Alter drawings to conform with particular layering conventions and symbol libraries, again at low cost.
Prepare 3D rendered drawings and fly-throughs. This work is labour-intensive, but again can be carried out highly economically by our off-shore partners.
Audit drawings and check for accuracy on site.
Undertake measured surveys and prepare CAD drawings of existing buildings. We regularly undertake this work for a number of major clients including retailers, hotels and serviced office operators. We can turn around surveys in the shortest possible time from instruction to the delivery of highly accurate CAD drawings by email.
The benefits of dealing with GLM are:
Well-established UK-based professional service providers with first-class offshore support.
Total confidentiality.
Excellent track record in building surveying and the production of CAD drawings of buildings, often in full occupation and with minimal disruption.
Very fast turnaround and efficient project management of survey and drawing projects.
Quality Assured, Professional Indemnity Insurance and Chartered Building Surveyor and Chartered Architect status.
Well-established working arrangements with our offshore partners who also operate a registered Quality Assurance system and enable us to provide unrivalled value.
A comprehensive set of services including data conversion, digitisation, architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and HVAC services, GIS, mapping, 3D realisation, Facilities Management CAD attribution, object-oriented databases and secure data storage and archiving.
For more information contact David Johnson
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44 (0)131 225 4235
