Patent ID: 8195723

Claim:
A method of storing and retrieving maintenance and operational documents for a building, comprising the steps of: a) providing and populating an organizational table, the organizational table containing a plurality of records relating to at least one building, each of the records in the organizational table having a plurality of associated data fields for recording data relating to at least one attribute of the plurality of building records with which the building records data is associated; b) providing and populating a drawing table, the drawing table containing a plurality of records relating to drawings for the at least one building, each of the records in the drawing table having a plurality of associated data fields for recording data relating to at least one attribute of the plurality of drawing records with which the drawing records data is associated; c) providing and populating a document table, the document table containing a plurality of records relating to non-drawing aspects of the at least one building, each of the records in the document table having a plurality of associated data fields for recording data relating to at least one attribute of the plurality of non-drawing aspect records with which the non-drawing data is associated; d) providing and populating at least one cross table containing records defining the relationships between at least two of the organizational, drawing and document tables; e) providing and populating at least one electronic file for document storage referenced by data in the drawing and document tables; f) providing at least one feature table including a plurality of records relating to attributes of a selected feature of the building; g) providing and populating at least one feature cross table linking the feature table to at least one of the organizational, drawing or documents by defining the relationships between the feature table and at least one of the organizational, drawing or document tables; h) providing an interface to access the records and associated data; and i) accessing selective documents in the at least one electronic file by selecting records and data through the interface.