Cairn Active Design Ltd - giving your the complete CAD experience from Floor Plan to virtual tour and more.....



ABOUT US....


For over 19 Years, Cairn Active Design Ltd has been providing a range of traditional and innovative information services.

Based in Dunfermline and Established in 1998, we have had many years experience providing Property Information Services for the banking, building, Health , food and security industries.

Our clients range from individuals to multinationals and we can cover a range of projects large or small, no project is too small or too big for us!


We have now managed all CAD and Space Management data for The The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC for over 19 years and currently provide services for Fife NHS and many others.

MEASURED BUILDING SURVEYS....


Using the latest hardware, software and in-house develop CAD routines, we can measure photographs and produce;

    accurate CAD floorplans
    elevations
    sections
    visualizations of any building

State of the art laser measurement tools are use to ensure the utmost accuracy, along with the latest software for processing of the data efficiently and precisely.

We have provided surveys for the following clients;

    RBS
    NatWest
    Dominos
    Hattrell
    DS One Architects
    DTZ
    Drivers Jonas
    DWP
    Currie & Brown
    Fife NHS

Intelligence & finished CAD drawings are linked to each other, and to photos, virtual tours, maps, documents etc to give a seamless view of all the data you have, using the surveyed CAD data as an interactive visual hub.

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN ...

Specific CAD software includes

    Autocad
    Microstation
    Cadopia

We use these to create and process CAD files in any format, to suit clients requirements.

Customer requirements can range from straightforward Floor Plans and Elevations, or with further processing we can produce drawings for

    Stacking Plans
    Furniture Layouts
    Fire Risk Assesments
    Planning Applications
    Building Warrants
    Health and Safety Audits
    Land Registry
    Asset Registers
    Sale Particulars

Other software we use to provide relevant data included

    Photoshop, Acrobat, Excel, Word,Access, Powerpoint, Scan2CAD, AIDE, Visio, Archibus, Bluebeam, Brava


We also create specific efficiency enhancing custom programs, routines and tools within the CAD software which ensures efficiency and consistency of data.Creation of enhancements for your Cad system is another area of our expertise.


Re-layering of Cad drawing data to any derived standards applicable to your organization is an area of particular expertise, as is the issuing and receiving of Cad data on your behalf, ensuring that external suppliers adhere to your set of CAD Standards.


Our use of CAD is not just restricted to the field of measured building surveys, or indeed anything related to buildings, if its on CAD or needs to be on CAD we can help you.


We currently manage CAD and space management data for a major bank’s portfolio of over 3000 properties in the UK and overseas.

CAD PLUS....

SPACE MANAGEMENT & PLANNING

We have been heavily involved in using CAD data to track and report on space utilisation, asset registers and desk/room booking systems since we launched as a business. Using specialist software such as Archibus or making clever use of your existing systems such as Access or Visio, to provide report data and Stacking Plans, we can cost effectively meet your needs.

BUILDING ALTERATIONS , AQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

From carrying out alterations to provide proposal drawings, for Planning Applications and Building Warrants, to Land Registry compliant plans for property disposals, through to providing the necessary plans and photographic material for property sales particulars, both domestic and commercial.

HEALTH & SAFETY COMPLIENCE

Adding information onto the base drawings for Health and Safety compliance, this includes drawings for Fire Risk Assessments, Asbestos Recording and Health and Safety audits.

INCIDENT & CONTINGENCY PLANNING

Combining CAD drawings with geographic mapping to pinpoint your organisation’s property portfolio, with associated population information, this provides a highly desirable and necessary tool to protect your estate and staff in the event of a major Incident. Used very successfully by our major clients in mock and real incidents.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY....


Whether on its own or as part of a Measured Building Survey, we can record and display various aspects of buildings. By linking photographs to Cad plans, providing a location reference for each photo, or producing new edited photos to show rebranding or resignage proposals for planning applications.

We can also provide very good quality images within a Virtual Tour

VIRTUAL TOURS



Bring the latest in IMMERSIVE and PHOTOGRAPHIC technology to your business and bring your buildings to life with a VIRTUAL TOUR

Blow prospective customers away with a 3D SHOWCASE - an immersive online experience that gives a true sense of the 'feeling' of the property before seeing it in person. Weed out less interested customers or save on expensive and time consuming site visits by using virtual tour technology!