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  • A dedicated document manager with industry knowledge?

    3 30.00%
  • Your CAD/BIM Manager?

    2 20.00%
  • Your CAD/BIM tech / design staff?

    4 40.00%
  • Your office coordinator?

    1 10.00%
  • Your secretary?

    0 0%
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Thread: Do you treat document control as an admin problem?

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    Default Re: Do you treat document control as an admin problem?

    Quote Originally Posted by dgorsman View Post
    Probably straight to HR...
    okay, to clarify, I meant, I'll suggest including a librarian...
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    Default Re: Do you treat document control as an admin problem?

    Hi David

    Although AEC does not often get uber-involved in the FM portion or lifecycle, we've still got long term retention issues. Liability issues/risks, not to mention legal requirements for retention of contract docs drive a lot of that.

    And it's not just a question of hanging on to 'stuff', it's being able to access it at some undetermined point down the road, after the gray haired geezers who remember that job have moved on. IME that's where a lot of AE firms fail. They are not alone of course; NASA lost the video from the first moon landing, and it was sheer happenstance that the tapes were found. (and then they had to redesign euipment to read them because that didn't exist anymore!)

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    Default Re: Do you treat document control as an admin problem?

    Quote Originally Posted by StDoodle View Post
    Wow. I suddenly feel much better about the "organization" at my small place. Thanks for cheering me up!
    Well, as long as I've done some good in the world...

    David,
    Yes, it's most definitely going to be different for me than for a design firm... that's sorta why I asked. From my perspective looking into the design team, it made no sense not to have technical personnel in charge of it and I wondered if it was normal or not. ~shrugs~
    I've definitely appreciated reading how folks handle this, it's been enlightening.
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