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.
IPMS 1. IPMS 1 is used in some markets for planning purposes or the summary costing of development proposals. IPMS 1 is the sum of the areas of each floor level of a building measured to the outer perimeter of external construction features and reported on a floor-by-floor basis.