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Drawing services for facilities management maintenance

Solving Every Drawing Challenge

Solving Every

Drawing Challenge

As the leading Drawing Management company, we are at the forefront of digital transformation, beginning from the foundational level of drawing services for every building. Specializing in the reverse engineering of historical building infrastructures, we excel in creating and maintaining precise digital representations of facilities.

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Impact of Poor Drawing Management

People

Frustrates team members, leading to lower productivity and higher turnover rates.

Processes

Slows down operations, increases flow errors, and cause workflow disruptions.

Bottom Line

Elevates costs, delays projects, and reduces overall profitability.

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Facilities worldwide struggle to organize, update, and make drawings easily accessible for their teams.

Top Global Pain Points in Drawing Management

Managing drawing documentation across various projects, especially on a global scale, can be a complex and arduous task. Below are some common global drawing management pain points organizations face without drawing services in place.

Time wasted

Paying skilled staff to sift through paper drawings or complex digital folders is inefficient and costly.

Rolls and rolls of paper drawings I need help. Call the DCM Inc. The Drawing Specialists for the white glove professional services.
Changeovers

Unrecorded space changes and staff turnover, challenge maintaining accurate, current building records, risking loss of crucial history.

Inconsistent Naming Conventions

Problem: Different projects or regions use varied drawing standards and naming conventions, and retrieval, and interpretation of drawings difficult.
Impact: This can lead to confusion, errors in drawing interpretation, and inefficiencies in managing and sharing drawings across global teams.

Version Control Issues

Problem: Keeping track of the most current version of a drawing among multiple revisions and copies can be challenging.
Impact: Without proper version control, teams risk working on outdated information, leading to potentially costly mistakes.

Efficiency and Safety Concerns

Problem: Efficiency and safety concerns related to the health and safety of the community.
Impact: Compromises safety protocols, endangering occupant safety and delaying emergency responses.

Access and Security Concerns

Problem: Managing who has access to what drawings, especially when dealing with sensitive or confidential information, is critical.
Impact: Inadequate control can lead to unauthorized access, risking information leaks and breaches of confidentiality.

Collaboration Challenges

Problem: Coordinating updates and changes across geographically dispersed teams can be slow and inefficient.
Impact: Poor collaboration and communication can lead to misalignments, project delays, and increased costs.

Inefficiency and Inaccuracy

Problem: Risks associated with inefficiencies or inaccuracies in drawing management.
Impact: Poses significant safety risks, legal and regulatory compliance issues, and could potentially tarnish the organization’s reputation.

Inaccurate Data

Years of renovations lead to outdated, inaccurate facility drawings, hindering compliance and data.

The solution for facilities management drawing maintenance

The core of our drawing services is a comprehensive suite of services and tech solutions, developed in-house and perfected over years of listening and innovating. At the heart of our offerings lies a robust Drawing Management Strategy (DMS) that transcends mere scanning of hardcopy plans or organizing digital drawings; it is a critical element essential for maintaining a building.

Go to Hands-ON

Get clarity.
Instantly, you’ll feel focused in your day as we eliminate the noise through our in-house processes. Once the magic is complete, all master drawings, whether paper or digital, are reunited.

Organize

Go to echoSearch

Be modernized. Access building information instantly with the swipe of your phone. Clarity for improved decision-making in emergencies boosts operational efficiency and elevates team performance.

Modernize

Go to BaseLINE

Get optimized.
The evolution of your building through reverse engineering, condensing years of project history into a new master set of optimized 2D & 3D CAD drawings, facilitating all disciplines.

Optimize

Go to Maintain

Be unstoppable. Optimization today doesn’t guarantee success tomorrow. Our long-term partnership builds off each project to keep your drawings accessible and accurate.

Standardize

Here’s a breakdown of the ultimate Drawing Management Strategy, divided into four distinct phases. It includes over 30 drawing services tailored to our client’s needs.

1️⃣ Hands-ON Drawing Services [Organize]

We handle everything from data assessment to file processing and data collection, ensuring detailed capture and seamless digital transitions for both hardcopy and digital drawings. This part sets you up for extreme success.

We roll up our sleeves and do the heavy lifting, taking your paper and digital blueprint burden away.

Objective: To create a clear and organized repository of current building information to streamline access, and promote transparency and clarity for better decision-making in emergencies.

2️⃣ echo Software Engineering Drawing Library [Modernize]

Echo, a digital drawing library turns your digital drawings into a searchable, dynamic library, making every file instantly accessible.

It’s the ultimate tool for finding, updating, sharing, and maintaining the DNA of your facility in real-time.

Objective: Single Source of Truth to maintain the past, present and future of the DNA of your buildings. Promoting transparency, clarity, and streamlined access for better decision-making during emergencies, while enhancing operational efficiency and positively impacting team performance.

3️⃣ BaseLINE CAD Services [Optimize]

Our flagship service, BaseLINE CAD services, utilizes reverse engineering to generate accurate 2D CAD plans of the current environment, complemented by cutting-edge 3D CAD Models and 3D virtual walk-throughs, to provide an immersive and detailed digital representation of your current site conditions.

If you thought echo was amazing (and we agree 🙂), wait until you see how we efficiently consolidate your construction and project drawing history for all disciplines (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) into one master operational CAD plan!

BaseLINE compresses the years of essential data for an interactive view of your building’s DNA.

Learn more about BaseLINE’s Objectives here

4️⃣ Maintain Drawing Services [Standardize]

Getting organized and optimized is only the first step on your journey. The important last step that brings it all together is creating a workflow to maintain drawing accuracy as change happens moving forward.

Optimization today doesn’t guarantee success tomorrow. By partnering we can standardize your process to keep your echo system and BaseLINE drawings accurate for the future.

Objective: Prioritizing and maintaining a single source of truth, you can rest assured that your facility remains secure and compliant today and for years to come.

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Clear Your Mind

Achieve mental focus by simplifying your workflow.

Stress Relief

Make project handling a breeze and reduce workplace stress.

Efficiency

Tech-driven processes mean you keep projects on schedule and within budget.

Sustainable

Meet your Net Zero goals by saving trees and boosting efficiency.

Is it hard to keep your technical drawings accurate and easy to access in the cloud?

How do you get information out of your team head? Digital Transformation with the Drawing Specialists

The global Leading Drawing Management Company 

Our Partnership

We offer a collaborative partnership dedicated to maintaining a Single Source of Truth for your facility drawings.

A Lifetime Partnership

We are dedicated to a lifelong partnership with our clients. Our service Maintain keeps your drawings accurate and current, ensuring they evolve as your facility does.

Echo + Maintain ensures that the health and safety of your facilities—and those within them—are secured, both now and in the future. We handle the complexities of drawing management, allowing you to focus on maintaining a safe and efficient operation.

Empower your team with a single source of truth of facility building information

Protecting Your Investment

By implementing state-of-the-art drawing management software and adopting our drawing management strategies, facilities will provide their team with one secure central location and an organized single source of truth as an engineering drawing repository.

A Drawing Management Strategy (DMS) is an essential solution for building the capacity to leverage data within the DNA of business operations. This strategy strengthens your business by turning data into a strategic asset, enhancing current operations, and building future resilience.

Safeguard Your Most Valuable Assets

A Drawing Management Strategy is pivotal for any organization that works with building plans. These drawings form the bedrock of engineering initiatives, offering crucial data for manufacturing, construction, and maintenance tasks.

Optimal drawing management guarantees easy location, access, and sharing of drawings, alongside securing them from damage, loss, or unauthorized access.

By effectively protecting these valuable assets, organizations not only boost productivity and slash costs but also significantly improve their operational efficiency.

By safeguarding these most valuable assets, organizations build the capacity to leverage data within the DNA of business operations.

By prioritizing accuracy, efficiency, and safety, we work together to drive operational excellence and ensure the long-term security and compliance of your facilities.

facility WINS: TURN YOUR Facility’s DRAWING Challenges INTO WINS

Safety

Understanding your facility in detail aids in identifying safety issues before they become problems.

Confidence

Confidence your contractor has the most accurate drawing.

Efficiency

Tech-driven processes mean you keep projects on schedule and within budget.

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The global Leading Drawing Management Company

How We Address The Risk

We understand that maintaining the operational excellence of your facilities is paramount. That’s why we’ve innovated the perfect solutions over the last two decades.

Scanning Process

RISK: Errors in scanning or equipment malfunction could affect the quality of the digital copies. 

➡️ We provide accurate PDF scans of hardcopy drawings. Each drawing is fixed, taped, and cropped to perfection. Customized settings for each drawing ensure high-quality images and thorough quality control guarantees optimal digital translation.  

Empty Software

RISK: We don’t have the manpower for the overhead costs of the data entry into software.   

➡️ We understand that clean, accurately populated software lays the foundation for your success. You receive software loaded with fully updated data and master plans ready for immediate use. Sharing project plans with contractors or maintenance crews has never been easier. You never get empty software or a file folder shared drive as your single source of truth. 

Band-Aid Solution

RISK: If we just scan everything and use excel, we will be better off, right? 

➡️ We focus on solving the root problem, not just masking the symptoms with a Band-Aid solution. 

Data Loss Prevention

RISK: We couldn’t imagine losing all the data that’s digital. 

➡️ After listening to our clients for the past two decades, we know the security of your facility is your top priority. That’s why we perform daily backup synchronization of all processed work to protect against data loss.  

Project Timelines

RISK: Unforeseen delays or scheduling conflicts could impact project timelines.

➡️ We align with project schedules to maintain progress and meet delivery dates. We are an agile team and your all-in-one solution for effective drawing management and digital transformations.

Onsite Inventory

RISK: Materials could be misfiled or lost, leading to delays in locating specific drawings. 

➡️ During white-glove extraction we track all materials on-site, ensuring an organized and accessible collection. This allows us to quickly locate any drawing during the project. If you call and need something before scanning, we can refer quickly to the drawer, cabinet or desk it was extracted from.  

Shipping

RISK: A potential for damage or loss during transit.  

➡️ During white-glove extraction we manage the delivery of drawings directly from your facility to ours, avoiding delays and losses with third-party shipping.

Site Validation

RISK: Inaccurate naming conventions can lead to difficulty in searching for and retrieving drawings. 

➡️ We focus on one thing; to see your buildings clearly. We do this by ensuring data is reflected properly by reviewing our client’s historical and current naming conventions. We work with your team to enable seamless search and retrieval of your digital drawings within seconds, no matter what decade the drawing came from.  

Third-party Contracting

RISK: Miscommunication or errors in translation can affect the clarity and quality of third-party deliverables. 

➡️ We offer translation services for third-party deliverables, ensuring clarity and quality. BLS is your all-in-one solution for effective drawing management. By the end of the project, we will know your facility better than most of your team.  

User Adoption

RISK: Users may still face difficulties in adopting the new system, which could affect overall efficiency.

➡️ We offer self-guided tutorials to ensure smooth integration and user adoption. For additional cost we can work one-on-one or offer user training days for your whole team. We do this in-person or online. 

Every project has its risks, but over the years we’ve done our best to address your fears with a solution. If there are any risks to a digital transformation we are not covering them here. Let’s talk! 

facility WINS: TURN YOUR Facility’s DRAWING Challenges INTO WINS

Productivity

Find accurate drawings the moment you need them.

Workflow

Confidence and security in having a process in place for the future.

Modernize

Smart collaboration with your team and contractors from anywhere.

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The global Leading Drawing Management Company

Who Are Our Competitors?

The Drawing Specialists are the leading drawing management company in the world, bringing facilities management the confidence to maintain their buildings in the digital era.

It’s what we do best!

No Direct Competitors

Why? We are a one-stop solution for drawing management, embodying the “Blue Ocean” strategy by keeping laser-focused on solving the deepest pain points facilities managers have in terms of maintaining a building.

Misunderstood Competition

Scanning house. We are not comparable to a scanning house. We provide much more than a folder structure of unidentifiable scans. Our hands-on service provides clarity in our client’s hardcopy drawings before we even turn on the scanner. Once the scanner is on, the attention to detail in extracting the best quality scan possible per drawing alone sets us apart. Not a set the scanner and run the system. However, our deliverable of organization and naming conventions make these scans useful. It is also important to note that scanning is a small but important step in our overall drawing management strategy.

Internal Network

Without knowledge, internal IT departments push their company’s servers and folder structures as a quick solution. However, this will create chaos a digital mess which we will happily fix.

Offering over 30 specialized drawing services for facilities, backed by our unique proprietary software we are just as unique as your building. 

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PM vs. DMS

Understanding there is difference between the software and services in the facilities management market is very important. PMS assists the FM with the management of his ongoing projects. It doesn’t help with keeping accurate MEP or Arch drawings updated and in one quick-to-reference location.

SP vs. DMS

Space planning software is the proper utilization of physical space in a facility. How to use every available space for its intended purposes, such as storage, meeting rooms, or desk space. SPS doesn’t manage facility drawings, nor does it act as a Single Source of Truth for version control.

CM vs. DMS

Building a new building and maintaining a building are very different. Construction drawings and project drawings are used to create or renovate a facility.

While our BaseLINE CAD drawings are created to maintain a facility. Here is a great article on what happens to a building with years of ignoring the maintenance side of drawing management.

Have you ever faced drawing challenges in managing your floor plans, MEP drawings, and renovations efficiently?

Navigating Global Drawing Services in 2025

Past, Present and Future of Drawing Management

The culture shift we are in is not just digital—it’s tech-driven, marked by transparency, high efficiency, and facilities that think for themselves. Achieving this calls for a foundational shift in how businesses approach operational efficiencies and performance improvement.

Don’t let project delays, budget overruns, and the unknowns of your facility’s infrastructure keep you up at night.

🌎 We are the only eco-friendly Drawing Management Company dedicated to reducing the world’s carbon footprint—one drawing at a time.

We Plant One Tree for New Software Users

Through One Tree Planted, reforestation efforts are underway in more than a dozen U.S. states, spanning three Canadian provinces and extending to Mexico, Australia, and numerous locations in between. These projects aim to restore forests devastated by significant wildfires, such as those in California, and to repair damage caused by industrial activities and resource extraction.

We are deeply committed to our planet’s well-being and building a business that contributes positively to the environment. We are excited to announce our partnership with One Tree Planted. For every new user added to your echo Drawing Management Software, we pledge to plant a tree!