Construction / Building Design

Architects, Civil Engineers, Quantity Surveyors and building contractors all produce large volumes of both design, specification and maintenance documentation.

The documents range from drawings, A4 paper, microfilms through to CAD and other design files.

Coordinate Your Project Information

Our document management solutions and bureau scanning services enable all these different forms of information to be managed in a coordinated way even between remote offices. This also includes emails and other other document centred processes such as information issue to consultants and invoice/stage payment processing

Our FileStore EDM solution can coordinate the total project management requirements of your company and make sharing information between clients and consultants/contractors easy and secure.

Low Cost CAD Digitising Service

Drawings typically take up large amounts of office space and these can be readily scanned in by our bureau into either TIF files or converted at low cost into fully structured CAD files for AutoCAD or Microstation. Our bureau service can also cope with large format full colour drawings and 35mm aperture cards / Quarter / Half plate microfilms.

Our digitising bureau is staffed by 20 experienced draughtsmen who can cover anything from a simple layered building plan through to structuring a set of coordinated multi-floor service plans for a large site. Many of our draughtsmen are based offshore so we can offer cost effective and 24Hr work periods to suit even the most demanding requirements.

Construction/Built Environment companies who use our services include:

• Bovis
• WS Atkins
• Hyder
• Seddons
• AMEC
• Over 30 Local Authorities
• BAA Facilities/EIC

Our document management and scanning products which address your requirements include:

b-Wize
b-Wize scans-in all documents that your company receives, even unstructured or handwritten notes, automatically extracts company, address, subject, invoice header/line item and other information from them.

b-Wize saves you up to 75% in your invoice and mail processing costs, reduces clerical data keying, improves accuracy and reduces time to route and process documents.

Alchemy
IMR Alchemy is an easy to use document and information archive solution. Archive of existing MS Office, scanned documents, drawings, CAD files and HTML data can all be integrated into a single easy to use information access resource either from CD, network or via a webserver.

DCS Scanning Services
DCS provide a wide range of on or off-site scanning services including paper documents, drawings, maps, survey forms, application forms, microfilms and photographs.

DCS Data Conversion Services
DCS can provide specialist conversion services from CanoFile, Tape and old document or information management archives into any other format you require.

DCS Drawing Scanning Services
DCS operate a drawing scanning service from either paper, film or trace paper. We can even convert microfilm drawings into either TIF files or fully structured CAD plans all at low cost.

Outsourced Web Access service to your documents

DCS operate a fully managed web service enabling to to get remote web access to your scanned documents and other documents for just a small monthly fee per user.

We can customise your own home page giving you your own unique 'look and feel' to the website. It can be scaled from 1 to thousands of users.

Case studies:

BAA Engineering Information Centre save £200,000 per year using DCS services [PDF 260KB]

White Papers on Document Management:

Legal validity of scanned documents [PDF 68KB]
Document Management - ROI [PDF 94KB]
Outsourcing your document scanning [PDF 102KB]