Architecture & Engineering

Preserving Design Heritage and Enhancing Efficiency

Ideal for:

Preserving Blueprints and Plans
Increasing Management Efficiency
Protecting Against Physical Deterioration
Increasing Accessibility
Promoting Collaboration

Managing and preserving architectural plans, blueprints, and historical documents is crucial. Architectural firms often maintain extensive archives of design plans, historical blueprints, and significant project documents.

Digitisation allows these valuable records to be preserved in high-quality digital formats, protecting them from physical deterioration and making them easily accessible for future projects. This preservation not only safeguards the architectural legacy but also facilitates the sharing of historical design knowledge through virtual archives and online repositories.

With digital technology advancing rapidly, architectural firms and institutions can now transform how they manage, preserve, and share their design heritage and operational data.

Digitise to Enhance Collaboration and Accessibility

In the digital era, architects need to collaborate seamlessly with clients and other professionals. Digitised blueprints and design documents can be shared instantly through online platforms, facilitating real-time feedback and revisions. This improved accessibility enhances client engagement, accelerates project timelines, and supports more dynamic and interactive design processes.

Also, digital preservation provides robust protection for architectural records against physical damage and unauthorised access. Secure storage solutions and data backup systems ensure that critical documents are safeguarded and compliant with industry regulations. Additionally, digital records are accessible from anywhere, facilitating remote work and collaboration.

Microform’s Expertise

Microform’s Heritage Department specialises in digitising architectural records with precision and care. Our team ensures high-quality results from planning and digitisation to metadata creation and secure storage.

By choosing our services, architectural firms can preserve their design heritage, streamline operations, and enhance collaboration and data management. Whether you are looking to digitise just a few things to get started or are looking to fully integrate digital assets within your business, we have a solution that can help.

Starting your digitisation journey today ensures that your cultural heritage is preserved, accessible, and ready to inspire future generations in an increasingly digital world.

If you would like to know more, get in touch with the Microform team.

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/ Heritage Digitisation Benefits

Preserve Historical Blueprints

Digitising architectural plans and blueprints ensures the preservation of valuable design documents, protecting them from physical deterioration

Enhance Project Collaboration

Digital access to design documents allows for easier sharing and collaboration among team members, clients, and stakeholders, improving project efficiency.

Streamline Document Management

Digital archives simplify the retrieval and management of architectural documents, reducing time spent on administrative tasks and increasing productivity.

/ Why choose Us?

It’s a family affair

We’re proud to fly the flag for family-run businesses, and although our team has grown significantly over the last 60 years, we still bring a personal touch to everything we do.

Complete protection

To ensure your materials are safe in our care, we implement strict security measures and undergo regular disaster recovery assessments.

Specialist heritage facilities

The storage, preparation and digitisation of your heritage materials is carried out in our purpose-built single-level, temperature-controlled studio area measuring over 10,000 feet.

Respected and respectful

Our skilled, knowledgeable and experienced handlers and technicians are known for their meticulous handling of heritage materials – treating them with the respect they deserve at all times.

Gentle preservation

We use cutting-edge technology and advanced techniques to provide one of the UK’s most specialist digitisation services for your rare, precious and fragile heritage materials.

Services by us, for you

Our flexible services are fully tailored to ensure organisations meet their key objectives regardless of the type or quantity of materials.

/ Reviews from our Customers

Microform are one of the best companies that I have had the pleasure of working with in a long time. They work as part of the extended team, so communication isn’t an effort; it is a natural part of the process of getting the job done and delivering results.

Alison John Registration Services Manager, Warwickshire County Council

I love REG...the slick, quick and accurate re-production of any register entry is great, none of the staff at this office would go back to life without it!

Anne Atherton Superintendent Registrar, St Helens Registration Service

We have found the REG system a joy to manage and work with. Not only does it give us easy, speedy access to the certificates, we can now also offer a more professional, timely service to the public. All the staff have been impressed by how easy it is to use.
Microform Imaging have been a great company to work with, delivering excellent service and creating a unique, bespoke partnership.

Dawn Titherington Superintendent Registrar, Blackpool Council

Due to our repository being off site it was vital that we looked at alternative ways to work. Working with Microform and the REG system they had designed has transformed the way we work. No longer do staff have to leave the office to access registers on a daily/hourly basis all records are accessible instantly. Staff have welcomed the system and have full confidence in how to search, edit and print certificates. It has enabled us to offer a 2 hour turnaround certificate service for a premium fee increasing our income. Working with Microform has been a pleasure and one of most successful partnerships.

Gillian Greeson Superintendent Registrar, Wigan Council

REG has transformed the way in which we produce certificates. The process is simplified and streamlined and together with our ongoing indexing project has enabled us to achieve the efficiency targets required by the local authority.

Pat Evans Superintendent Registrar, The Register Office, Liverpool

From the first meeting we had to discuss our requirements with Mo, all the way through to now, communication in all forms have been exceptional. I very much doubt you could improve the quality of customer care and satisfaction. The relationship with Rachel throughout the project gave exceeded all my expectations, she has made the project a pleasure and stress-free experience. The level of professionalism and ''can do'' attitude she has shown from day one has been amazing and made what could have been a time of worry and concern for me, in to a feel-good working experience. Microform go the extra mile to make life easier!

Robert Harrison IT Director and Partner, HGF

I was thrilled to bits with the hard drive containing the scans of all my scrapbooks and would like to thank you very much for doing such a splendid job and for treating them with such great care.

Sir Stirling Moss