The days of wandering around cam pus searching for particular buildings or rooms are over. MU s buildings, complete with floor plans detailing rooms down to square inches in a corner, are mapped and on- line on the Internet. The floor plan has information on gross square footage by floor, the room number and use, the architectural layout of the floor, where the main entrance is and even the stairwell.
Floor plans have a variety of uses.
Parents, for example, can locate their son or daughter s residence hall room or apartment and architectural and engineering firms can utilize floor plans to facilitate their campus projects and construction. Positioning the floor plans on-line was done as a response to the many requests for floor plans by the campus community. People were looking for an alternative to the mountain of papers involved with the floor plans for a building, Shader said. They asked if we could put those drawings online for easy access. Every 18 months, SPAM staff begin, anew, travel about the state, surveying the sites and updating information.