Probably a year before 9/11, I was asked my thoughts along the lines of, “What else should we commission beyond the standard building systems?” My client was the project engineer at the Department of Defense in the Pentagon. I suggested “commission project record drawings.” I guess you could say I made up the task of commissioning record drawings, but I got my point across.
My thought was that the construction CAD should include specific facility management CAD layers within the Pentagon’s Wedge 1 contract document. I suggested, at a minimum, including the top 10 useful O&M CAD layers, and in particular, I proposed a layer showing all the emergency shutoff valves.