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There has been an increase in discussions recently about the concerns of Private Industry and the Federal Government regarding "Continuation of Operations" (CoOP) and related issues surrounding Event Response and Disaster Recovery. Many of the issues impacting those topics revolve around documentation of the physical facility itself (i.e. the multi-level detailed Facility Drawings, maintained in a Facilities Database).

Recently, an East Coast State Police Department undertook an initiative to verify the layout of Public Educational facilities, document the drawings in digital format, and archive them in a central dispatch repository. This will enable them to electronically transmit a drawing of a facility (via wireless technology) to State Police units or Emergency Teams dispatched in response to an event. It is apparent that this is an early adoption of a concept that will grow exponentially within the Federal, and State Governments.

Our experience, as well as information gathered in discussion with various industry and government segments, tells us that while government agencies, military facilities and private sector enterprises have facility drawings, there is question as to the accuracy of the information reflected (due to undocumented construction, modification, departmental re-alignments, etc.). In addition, a large segment of the facility community still has "manual" (hard copy) drawings that are not yet digitized, and many that are digitized are done so in such a wide variety of software applications as to make consolidation or centralization of information difficult.

There is growing interest in use of CAD/CAFM/CIFM technology to assist Federal Agencies and Extended Corporate Enterprises in Facility Portfolio standardization. This technology has obvious advantages for more efficient management and utilization of space, but also provides the client with a significant component in development of process and routines associated with coordinated response to events.

ECS provides the critical Professional Services components for field verification, drawing development, and conversion, digitization and drawing maintenance processes. With an ECS cost-efficient solution, you have an opportunity to undertake Facility Portfolio initiatives that will avoid huge amounts of cost, and still deliver the high degree of productivity, excellent quality output (there is no higher than ECS in our business), and efficiency required for a CoOP initiative.

Undertaking a dialog with ECS regarding our capabilities will help define an approach to the specific avenues may be the best for you to pursue. Contact us at info@ecs-cadcafm.com to get started!