Keeping a Visual Record of Campus

Facility Information Systems (FIS), part of Engineering Division, is responsible for drawing-based computing systems that document MIT’s buildings, rooms, and landscape. FIS maintains the Space Accounting database including floorplans, space inventory, and the campus basemap.

Also part of the FIS team are the Facilities Archives and Signage areas. The Archives hold a treasury of architectural drawings that depict MIT’s earliest buildings as well as practical tools like current building systems manuals. Signage services include room number signs for offices, public safety and emergency evacuation signage and dedication plaques.

Facilities CAD Guidelines (pdf) establish AutoCAD standards that must be used by architects, engineers, contractors and other consultants working for MIT so that construction and infrastructure records are accessible.

FIS uses these Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools:

• CAD system for production of construction and facility documents
• GIS applications for campus mapping projects
• Space accounting system for maintaining Institute floorplans and associated space inventory
• Document management system to manage and provide access to construction and record documents of Institute buildings and campus infrastructure

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