Interior and Facility Contracts Ltd - Computer Aided Design Service, CAD, for Office Fitting, Furnishing and Refurbishment

How can CAD design service assist you?

We are not Architects, but we have been designing offices for many years from a very practical point of view and we know what is cost effective.

if you have drawings - all good and well, that gets us off to a flying start.
if you do not, let us carry out a site survey - we know what will be important to a successful project and we will get it all down in the plans. Either way we will produce an AutoCAD drawing.

We will then discuss your requirements and start the drafting process, with as many revisions and alternatives that are necessary. Good design evolves from our dialogue with you - your knowledge of your business will mesh with our expertise to arrive at the right answer for your project.

When we are sure we have the right scheme we will produce a drawing and a schedule of works detailing our proposals.

Our quotations are very competitive - About 50% of our quotations become orders - an enviable record and most of those that are not ordered, do not go ahead for other reasons

We use AutoCAD® extensively in drafting our layouts and drawings for Design & Build Contracts and when Fitting out and Refurbishing premises.

We have found that drawings produced this way are much more intelligible for our clients - and illustrate that we carry out this aspect of our work in aprofessional manner.

Once we have your proposals drawn with AutoCAD® your ammendments (and there will be many - rest assured!) can be quickly incorporated without the need "to go back to the drawing board"!

These are our thoughts on the benefits of AutoCAD®

AutoCAD® has become the industry standard for architectural drafting. Much of the software functionality has been a boon in the construction industry, not just in producing drawings but in estimating, measuring, etc. as well.

Example Drawing of a kitchen & toilet facility:-

Over many years we have developed our own symbol libraries and templates.We can produce drawings many times faster than used to be possible. Our drawings are also produced to accepted architectural drawing standards being are easy to read & understand.

The accuracy level is also so much greater, and although it is so widely used by professionals it is still looked upon as one of the "dark arts" because of being tricky to use - with a very steep learning curve !

Even with a good knowledge of AutoCAD® use, years of experience are required to know what to draw! The major benefit for our clients is that all of this is available from us on the end of a phone or an email.

Most projects require 2D drawings at an normal scale of 1:50 and we are able to plot such drawings, in colour, up to A0. On some occasions, where is difficult to visualise a counter for example, we will produce a 3D image and email this as a JPG image file. The 3D image can also be rotated, with the rotation exported as a short video if required.

Example of a recently completed reception counter:

We hold drawing libraries for our clients, the major benefit for them is that these can be modified very quickly - then emailed in the form of a PDF file for immediate viewing and review. Generally, we have found that the design phase of a project requires many reviews by different parties and this can now all be done electronically. PDF files can be annotated and returned several times in one day. A successful & mutually agreeable outcome can be produced in hours not days or weeks as used to be the situation.

Digital photography also plays a major part in the survey & design process, and these are also used extensively in the design & development phase of all projects.

Interested and would like a quotation? - Please contact us by phone or email