Mobile CAD Surveying is building surveying expert

Whether it is quick turn-around you need for a specific project or simply on-going updates to as-built floor plans, Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building delivers.

Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology study NIST CGR 04-867, estimates the cost of inadequate interoperability in the U.S.capital facilities industry to be $15.8 billion per year, with building owners bearing the majority of those costs.

How much of the $15.8 billion did you pay last year?.

From field to finish, we are consistently incorporating new technologies and unique processes to maximise our clients' investment in building intelligence to ultimately save them time and money.

Clients like the US Navy, T Mobile, Cartiers, Jones Lang LaSalle, Clark Nexsen, EllisDon etc have already experienced the Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building difference.

A few projects carried out with Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building, 3000 Bank of America's, 150 surveys on WAMU branches following the take over by Morgan Chase, 2.1million sq ft of survey work at Navy public Works Centre in Norfolk Virginia, 15,000,000 plus sq ft of German Anglican Church premises, plus a 4 year project is under negotiation at the moment in Europe for 100,000,000 sq ft of surveys.

Schools for The Future Programmes in the UK along with a 2 year measuring contracts for the BBC to name but a few.

Deploying expert personnel, following industry best practices and BOMA standards, Mobile CAD Surveying delivers:.

- Laser-precise, 100% accurate building floor plans and inspection drawings.

- Digital, AutoCAD-compatible drawings.

- Excel-compatible itemized reports.

- Embedded digital photos of key building components.

Take out the guesswork.

With Mobile CAD Surveying laser-precise, field created as-builts and existing condition floor plans, what you see in a building is exactly what you get.

Using state of the art technologies, GiveMePower delivers detailed accurate building information including walls, openings, windows, areas, perimeters, widths, heights while automatically storing room and building information.

Know that it's done on time and accurately.

Survey, measure and draw in real time in ONE Operation.

You get exact square footage, detailed room and building data, and accurate mechanical systems information.

Every time.

Reduce costs.

Guarantee precise, intelligent data.

Rework, delays, poor quality, incomplete, or inaccurate plans and building information costs everyone in the entire design/build chain valuable time and money.

Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building delivers much more than sketches, redrawn plans or simple line drawings.

Instant Productivity.

Ready, reliable building data in easy to use layers that you can use instantly.

Empower workers with real data and get everyone working collaboratively on the same page.

Proven to increase productivity by up to 1000% compared to time consuming and labour intensive manual methods, Mobile CAD Surveying delivers results with immediate payback.

With Mobile CAD Surveying building surveys, Architects, Engineers and Construction Managers can be more productive, deliver on budget and work to meet deadlines.

With Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building laser-precise, field-created as-builts and existing condition floor plans, what you see in a building is exactly what you get.

Instantly useable, files are delivered in AutoCAD DWG and/or DXF format, along with optional BMP, PDF, and Excel compatible stored room and building information.

No surprises, means no delays and no hidden costs.

You get exact square footage, detailed room and building data, and accurate mechanical information.

Every time.

Before you start a new renovation, upgrade or reconstruction project, get Mobile CAD Surveying as-built floor plans and gain the competitive advantage in knowing exactly what you are dealing with before you design, estimate or bid.

The Mobile CAD Surveying Advantage:.

- Lower Your Bids with Accurate Cost Estimates.

- Save on Materials and Time.

- Design Immediately.

- Schedule Workers More Productively.

- Reduce Cost Over-runs and Overages.

- Mitigate Rebuilds and Rework.

- Reduce Man-hours on Backend Design.

Facility Managers can manage complex infrastructure visually through detailed floor plans of a building with a click of a mouse.

What you see in a building is exactly what you get.

Ready, reliable building data in easy to use layers that you can use instantly.

Exact measurements, detailed room and building data, and accurate systems information give you the answers to the tough questions.

All the time! Digital files are delivered in AutoCAD DWG and/or DXF format, along with optional BMP, PDF, and Excel compatible stored room and building information.

Upload building data directly to existing FM, CMMS or CAFM software systems for capital planning, budgeting and asset inventory management.

Before you start a new expansion, capital planning or renovation project, get Mobile CAD Surveying as-built floor plans and gain the competitive advantage in knowing exactly what you are dealing with before you buy, contract or send to tender.

The Mobile CAD Surveying Advantage: - Schedule planned and deferred maintenance reliably.

- Manage your facilities visually through a floor plan.

- Save on materials and labour costs.

- Forecast budgeting needs efficiently and dependably.

- Accurately report on assets.

Make informed decisions with relevant building data.

- Reduce worker downtime.

- Avoid cost over-runs and time delays.

- Mitigate rebuilds and rework.

- Generate tender packages with ease.

- Get better bids on outsourced work.

With Commercial office space commanding a premium, building owners and managers can increase revenues by finding more gross rentable square footage space with Mobile CAD Surveying BOMA Plans.

Per ANSI Standards, a resurvey to BOMA 1996 Standards typically yields a 2-8% increase in usable and rentable areas, which more than offsets the direct costs of a re-survey.

Tenant discrepancies with occupancy costs based on square footage are mitigated, and building information for lease plans and leasehold improvements are current and easily accessible.

The Mobile CAD Surveying BOMA Plans are client-friendly and serve as an excellent addition to the sales and marketing toolkit, or space verifications of leased property.

Special considerations in the wording of measurements relative to existing tenant contracts are easily accommodated.

Items clearly marked on the BOMA floor plan include:.

- Walls, windows and doors.

- All rooms are clearly labeled and dimensioned.

- Floor and building common areas, and vertical penetrations.

- Usable and rentable areas.

- Symbols showing key building component such as plumbing fixtures, kitchen appliances, heating fixtures, elevators, water fountains, etc.

With "Point-Shoot-Drawn" Simplicity and Speed, Detailed AutoCAD-Compatible Floor Plans are Created In Real-Time Using Handheld Lasers.

By simply pointing the laser, measurements are transferred instantly to create architecturally-rich floor plans, complete with "intelligent" walls, windows, doors, openings, areas, symbols and extended inspection details such as digital photos are added to the drawings in real-time on tablet PCs.

Details included not only simple dimensions but also produced accurate representations of angled, curved and tapered walls.

The Results: Increased Accuracy and Boosts to Productivity by 250%.

Before using leading-edge as-built technologies, twice as many people would have had to manually log all measurements using tape measures to produce hand-drawn sketches.

Back at the office, multiple teams of AutoCAD drafting technicians would then have had to interpret the data to create digital floor plans which is very time consuming.

Summary: Mobile CAD Surveying and Sitemaster Building Delivers Measurable Results.

- 2-3 fold increase in productivity.

- More than 50% reduction in labour costs.

- Reduction of original project timelines - Increase accuracy of results to 100%.

- Deployed in hours.

- Fully compatible digital floor plan files with existing (AutoCAD) software.

If we say the output is 100% accurate in half the time and at half the cost we're pretty close.

Productivity in simple terms is increased by 100% - the work is delivered in one day - therefore the profit is increased by 100%.

Mobile technology has actually been proven to increase productivity by up to 1000% when compared to traditional design methods.

And that's not mentioning the less tangible increase in service level to the customer.

A Return on Investment can be seen in some cases on day 1, but we say on average within 14-15 working days, including the cost of the hardware, software and training.

ROI:.

Cost of survey team = 1/2 the cost - 1 man survey team.

Cost of travel = 1 visit and no return.

Cost of drawing distribution = 1 upload to web portal, many users.

Sitemaster Building - Advantages:.

- Save time.

Up to 10 times more productive than the traditional pen and paper method.

Work of two is carried out by one.

- No mistakes.

As you measure on-site you draw, in Real Time; therefore all results can be checked immediately.

-Get Results.

Professional and complete CAD drawings; integration back to existing office CAD infrastructure.

- Auditing and calculating on-site.

Intelligent area and volume calculation of rooms, associated dimensioning.

- Effective Checking.

Insert digital Photos (snagging) Mark-up and inspection details - Avoid Typing.

VoiceNOTES: Integrate additional information in your drawing, no need for hand written notes and sketches anymore.

- Work wireless.

Collect data wirelessly.

- Be Compatible.

Open and save drawings in DWG/DXF: EmpowerMent of the Field Worker.

Defining a standard of working method.

Managing your asset.

Reducing the cost of the field working.

Typical User for a mobile CAD Solution:.

Construction - when working on existing buildings: plans are required before work commences.

- when building: new plans are required on site to construct.

As Builts:.

Utility Companies - On installing, inspecting, servicing or maintaining network: drawings and s chematics are required on site.

Emergency Services - Police Crime Scenes, plans for fire escape, Security layouts for any building vulnerable to terrorism.

Government - site plans for disability access, housing, hospitals, security and asset management.

Real Estate - property plans, surveyors reports, valuation reports, property and facility management.

ROI example for SiteMaster.

Responsible facility managers and businesses alike are always looking for ways to minimize their expenses and to hold onto their available resources.

They are constantly reviewing and rethinking their operational strategies in order to remain competitive in today's business environment.

In an attempt to accomplish this task many organizations are looking for solutions to increase productivity and reduce costs.

SiteMaster Building provides a low cost means to meet that need.

In a recent article for Business Advantage's CAD Spaghetti, Rob Jones of Graebert UK talks about the benefits of using the SiteMaster system and how businesses can achieve a solid return on their investment.

He states: "Once users realize how beneficial the system is to their work flow in achieving 90% of the drawing in the field, it certainly opens the mind to this investment and how quickly they can achieve a return on investment".

"Most surveyors use a laser measure, a total station, a laptop or some form of computing device; we are the platform that ties them all together to make their investments work a bit harder and certainly a lot smarter".

"Whatever the size of organization, the investment made in SiteMaster is a very sound business decision" (Jones, 2008).

In order to demonstrate the return on investment potential that can be realized utilizing the SiteMaster product line over the Tape measure and Paper methodology the following examples are provided.

Cost estimates for both surveyors and draftsmen are based on arbitrary dollar amounts and are to be utilized for demonstration purposes only as wage rates will vary from organization to organization.

Graebert's projections for increased productivity are utilized to demonstrate the gains that can be realized by utilizing this system and methodology.

As with any new system there will be a ramp up period for the training of personnel.

Initially, a typical survey team will consist of two personnel.

Once users become more familiar with the system however they can go to a single person team.

Cost savings can be realized through this reduction in staffing requirement.

Survey Technician Example: Wage rate per day = Number of personnel *Wage rate per Hr Traditional Method: 2 x $21.40 per hr = $42.80 per hr *8 = $342.40 per day SiteMaster Method: 1 x $21.40 per hr = $21.40 per hr *8 = $171.20 per day Sq Ft per day Demonstrable gains in productivity can be realized in the amount of square footage covered in the typical workday by utilizing SiteMaster as well.

Even if the team using the tape measure and paper method switches to using laser distance meters there still remains a disparity in the time required between the two methods because of the additional steps required by the traditional method.

Naturally, productivity increases will rise and fall based on the skill level of the surveyor and the size and complexity of the asset being measured however, productivity gains will be realized in the majority of instances when utilising SiteMaster Building.

What makes this system more attractive is that due to this increase in productivity organizations can recoup their initial cost expenditure of purchasing the requisite software, hardware and training which again serves to only strengthen the argument for utilising the system.

AutoCAD cleanup / Proprietary Symbols / Photos Field teams utilizing the traditional methodology are collecting data and hand drawing floor plans only to return to the office to calculate the square footage.

Once this task is completed, draftsmen must then decipher the drawings and redraw them using computer aided design software such as AutoCAD or Microstation.

This is a time consuming redundant exercise that can result in imprecise drawings.

If for any reason the accuracy of the drawing is questioned, surveyors must return to the site to re-verify the measurements costing the organization time and money.

For SiteMaster users the drawing of the facilities, the backend cleanup of the drawings and calculation errors can be minimized because they are already drawn and calculated in the software as they are going through the facility.

Additionally, every shot taken with the laser distance meter is recorded on a layer of the drawing.

By turning this layer on in the layer manager, distances can be readily seen along with the location and direction from which the shot was taken.

This is an invaluable attribute of the system as it serves to address any questions that may arise about the validity of the survey as well as address the concerns of the client about the accuracy of the final deliverable product.

These are the big time and money saving factors:.

Drawing in the field with pencil and paper then in redrawing the plans in AutoCAD takes about 6-8 hours.

Draftsmen must create, figure out, draw, calculate square footages, insert title blocks, and add any additional details as might be outlined in the SOW.

Then a spreadsheet has to be created that contains square footages, area use codes, room numbers, and cubic volumes if the data is available.

Utilizing SiteMaster the backend clean up in CAD is roughly 30 - 40 minutes per file and it includes the spreadsheet.

In order to demonstrate the costs savings that can be realized as a result of the reduced cleanup time required the following example is provided based on an 8 hr field drawing time utilizing both methods and a file load of 300.

Draftsman Example:.

Cleanup costs = (Number of files*estimated time per drawing) * wage rate per hour.

Traditional Method.

(300*16)*$21.40 = $102,720.00.

As stated previously utilizing SiteMaster we estimate that it takes roughly 30 minutes per file to do the cleanup.

SiteMaster Method.

(300*8.50)*$21.40 = $54,570.00.

The resulting delta would be a 2,250 hr reduction in the man hours required and a realized profit of $48,150.00 as a result of the reduced effort.

Reports As mentioned before, another great feature of SiteMaster is that the room and area data can be exported into a program like Excel for further analysis.

This can be very beneficial to facility managers when doing space utilization studies to determine how to optimize existing space, calculate costs for leases, cleaning contracts and for maintenance and repair budget development.

If reducing your costs and increasing your productivity sounds good to you and you want to learn more about how SiteMaster can work for your organization, visit our SiteMaster page and click on the Product Information and Trials link for free downloads of trial versions of all of the SiteMaster line of products.

If you have any questions please feel free to call us at +44 (0) 871 789 2609.

We look forward to working with you to help you meet your goals.

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