Abstract
Building Information Management at the Smithsonian Institution
Track: Facilities Management
Author(s): Sylvia Kendra, Kenton Williams
The Geospatial Engineering Division, Office of Engineering, Design and Construction, is responsible for developing and maintaining as-built floor plans and related space data for the Smithsonian Institution. Currently, we use 2D AutoCAD files and a separate facilities database for daily operations in managing 12 million square feet of space within 700 buildings. We have posted drawings and related data on our internal website, but the effort in maintenance is cumbersome. Our goal is to move towards an integrated building information environment, where building structures and information coalesce into a seamless stream of information.
We recently conducted a pilot project designed to show the functionality of Esri software for a campus located at one of our facilities in Panama. We posed the challenge to the developers: Using standard floor plans and space data,create an Esri Power User environment to demonstrate edit and analysis capabilities in 2D and 3D environments.
Sylvia Kendra
Smithsonian Institution
600 Maryland Ave, SW
Suite 5001
Washington , District of Columbia 20024
United States
Phone: 202-633-6262
Fax: 2026336233
E-mail: kendras@si.edu
Kenton Williams
Penobscot Bay Media
51 Mechanic St, Suite 31
Camden , Maine 04843
United States
Phone: 2072300182
E-mail: kwilliams@penbaymedia.com