[UMA-SRE-20120269] UNIVERSITY BUILDING DRAWINGS BY BUILDING NUMBER

Description

IdentifierUMA-SRE-20120269Extent175 UnitsScope and ContentThis series of University of Melbourne Building drawings is arranged into bundles according to building number. Buildings within the University are numbered from 101 on. In addition, each drawing in this series was assigned an alphanumeric control number made up of the following elements: Discipline, building number, year of creation, and sequence within the set of drawings. Disciplines are: A for architectural; S for structural; M for mechanical; H for hydraulic; E for electrical. The control number A101.5505 therefore indicates an architectural drawing for building number 101 Beaurepaire Centre, from 1955, the 5th in the sequence.
It is not clear whether this is a long-standing system of arrangement of University drawings, or whether it represents a system which was imposed upon all physical drawings when they were scanned and described into the Property and Campus Services database, Meridian, in the late 1990s. At the time of scanning and description, the drawings were physically arranged into bundles by building number with the oldest drawing at the back of the bundle. Architectural A and structural S drawings, tended to be bundled together per building number; and drawings for M, H and E were bundled together per building. This system was not absolutely consistent, however, as drawings for some buildings (seemingly in close proximity) were bundled together, there are some bundles in which A and S drawings are mixed with H, E and M. These bundles have been retained on transfer to the Archives. Drawings were also labelled with either a red dot denoting that they are described on the database and have a scanned image; or a blue dot denoting that they are described on the database but not scanned.
This series is listed and retrieved by the Archives by Building number and bundle number. Each bundle has an itemised list of its individual drawings attached.Collection CategoryUniversity, officialAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this SeriesSearch within this Series

Plan

Building 186, Vice- Chancellor's House

Provenance

CreatorProperty and Campus Services (University of Melbourne)

Dates

Date1960-1995

Description Control

Previous System ID2012.0269State of ListUnit listed

Relationships

Feature CollectionRecords of the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne Archives

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[UMA-SRE-20120269] UNIVERSITY BUILDING DRAWINGS BY BUILDING NUMBER