Major Scottish Asset Management ContractIn 2004, Cad-Capture successfully won the tender to produce CAD plans of all properties belonging to Perth & Kinross Council’s non-domestic property estate. The contract had been advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).The project was split into two phases; phase one consisted of 74 schools (300 individual buildings) and phase two, 190 public and commercial properties. The Gross External Area totalled 225,000 square metres.The project commenced in March 2005 and finished in December 2005 on schedule. A number of aspects of the project differed from any contract completed before. Cad-Capture customised its unique AssetCapture software to ensure the AutoCAD files were compatible with DeCAL Badger, the asset management software used by the Council. Another difference was the inclusion of digital photographs within each CAD file. Perth & Kinross Council specified a requirement of four photographs for each measured space and two for each external building face. Therefore, each of Cad-Capture's surveyors was equipped with a powerful digital camera. Cad-Capture also created a solution which automatically inserted camera symbols in the CAD files, indicating the direction in which the photograph was captured. This also enables a user to click the symbol and view different parts of each room directly from the CAD plan. Roddy Brown, Asset Planning Manager for Perth & Kinross Council said “Working to a detailed output specification which Council staff monitored regularly through random quality checks, Cad-Capture liaised closely with Council staff to co-ordinate what was a challenging programme involving the survey of the majority of the Council’s property portfolio. Perth & Kinross Council was particularly impressed with the way Cad-Capture organised site visits and carried out the site surveys with little or no disruption to occupiers of the buildings.” < back
Major Scottish Asset Management ContractIn 2004, Cad-Capture successfully won the tender to produce CAD plans of all properties belonging to Perth & Kinross Council’s non-domestic property estate. The contract had been advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).The project was split into two phases; phase one consisted of 74 schools (300 individual buildings) and phase two, 190 public and commercial properties. The Gross External Area totalled 225,000 square metres.The project commenced in March 2005 and finished in December 2005 on schedule. A number of aspects of the project differed from any contract completed before. Cad-Capture customised its unique AssetCapture software to ensure the AutoCAD files were compatible with DeCAL Badger, the asset management software used by the Council. Another difference was the inclusion of digital photographs within each CAD file. Perth & Kinross Council specified a requirement of four photographs for each measured space and two for each external building face. Therefore, each of Cad-Capture's surveyors was equipped with a powerful digital camera. Cad-Capture also created a solution which automatically inserted camera symbols in the CAD files, indicating the direction in which the photograph was captured. This also enables a user to click the symbol and view different parts of each room directly from the CAD plan. Roddy Brown, Asset Planning Manager for Perth & Kinross Council said “Working to a detailed output specification which Council staff monitored regularly through random quality checks, Cad-Capture liaised closely with Council staff to co-ordinate what was a challenging programme involving the survey of the majority of the Council’s property portfolio. Perth & Kinross Council was particularly impressed with the way Cad-Capture organised site visits and carried out the site surveys with little or no disruption to occupiers of the buildings.”
