WELCOME TO THE RESOURCE CENTER

The Resource Center is a unit of the Administrative Division of the Facilities Planning & Construction Department serving Facilities Management personnel, architectural and engineering consultants, School of Architecture students, the Office of the Architect for the University, and the University community at large. OUR COLLECTIONS The Resource Center currently holds architectural and engineering drawings and specifications for over 500 buildings. This amounts to a collection of more than 55,000 sheets of drawings and 4,800 specifications, studies, maintenance manuals, shop drawings, and construction submittals.  The collection also contains numerous maps and aerial photographs of the University Grounds, Charlottesville, and Albemarle County. In addition, the Resource Center Library collection includes many general reference manuals such as Historic Preservation Resources, FP&C Design Guidelines, Facility Audits, and University Master Plans. The Resource Center collection is open to consulting architectural and engineering firms, contractors, all University personnel, and architecture and engineering students.

INFORMATION ACCESS
The entire collection has been catalogued  and the database is searchable by keyword or building name.  The public version of this catalog can be accessed at this location on the web:
http://www.fm.virginia.edu/ResourceCenterCatalogSearch/
Users can view the list of available drawings and contact us to request the files or email us for assistance at fm-resource-center@virginia.edu.

WE ARE DIGITAL
The Resource Center collection has been scanned into universally accessible .tiff and .pdf formats.  These files can generally be provided the same day the request is made.

CAD FILE AVAILABILITY
Our Design Guidelines require Record Drawing submittals to include the AutoCAD files in addition to the printed documents. Our collection of CAD files available to A&E firms continues to grow.