Building Documentation for Property & Facility Managers in Montréal
One reliable measured record of the building that leasing, maintenance, compliance and capital planning can all work from.
Get a Quote for Your Project
Send us the building location, approximate square footage and required deliverables. We'll review the scope and get back to you.
Facility and property teams are usually the ones who discover that a building has no trustworthy drawing set. The plans in the file room disagree with the plans the leasing team uses, which disagree with the plans a contractor worked from last year. Every project starts by re-measuring something that has already been measured several times.
A measured baseline ends that cycle. Captured once, it supports leasing documentation, maintenance planning, tenant fit-out coordination and capital project scoping, and it can be updated after major work rather than recreated from scratch.
Because the point cloud stays available, questions that used to require sending someone with a tape measure can be answered from the desktop.
What usually goes wrong for property & facility managers
Multiple conflicting drawing sets
Different departments hold different versions of the same floor. Consolidating them onto a single measured record removes the argument about which set is correct.
Area documentation for leasing
Rentable and usable area calculations depend on measured boundaries. Where areas are derived from outdated plans, the numbers used in leasing may not reflect the building as built.
Maintenance and service access planning
Knowing the real clearances and routing around plant equipment changes how maintenance work is planned and how long it takes.
Repeated re-measurement for every project
Each new fit-out or capital project pays again to measure the same building. A maintained baseline turns that recurring cost into a one-time one plus updates.
How a project runs
- 01Decide the scope: whole portfolio, single asset, or the floors where decisions are pending.
- 02Coordinate capture around tenants, security requirements and access windows.
- 03Capture and register, floor by floor.
- 04Produce the documentation set the building actually uses day to day.
- 05Agree how and when the baseline gets updated after major work.
What you receive
- Measured floor plans in DWG and PDF for building operations and leasing use
- Area documentation derived from measured boundaries
- BIM model or digital twin record where ongoing asset use justifies it
- Registered point cloud kept available for later measurement
Services most relevant to this workflow
Guides worth reading first
Written by the DCMS team to answer the questions that usually come up before a scope is agreed.
Frequently asked questions
Can you work in occupied buildings?+
Yes. Most of this work happens in occupied assets. Capture is scheduled around tenant access, building security and quiet-hours requirements.
Do we need a full BIM model, or are drawings enough?+
Drawings are enough when the record supports discrete projects. A model earns its cost when several teams need the same building data over years, and when it will be kept current.
Can the baseline be updated after a renovation?+
Yes. When the original capture is tied to a control setup, later captures register to the same framework and update the affected areas instead of replacing the whole record.
Can you document one floor first?+
Yes, and it is often the sensible way to start. A single floor establishes the format and the value before committing a full portfolio.
Get a Quote for Your Project
Send us the building location, approximate square footage and required deliverables. We'll review the scope and get back to you. Property & Facility Managers