Construction Drawing Abbreviations. The following is a list of abbreviations found on a typical set of construction drawings designed to help you interpret information on your blueprints.
IDMS. IDMS is primarily a network database management system for mainframes. It was first developed at B.F. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems. Since 1989 the product has been owned by Computer Associates, who renamed it Advantage CA-IDMS and later simply to CA IDMS.
IPERMS Interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System (IPERMS) IPERMS is a record management system that is normally used by the army of the United States of America. The system is supported online hence its accessibility is very great. Great accessibility comes in where anyone who is authorized can access the system even if he/she is located at a far distance.