Electronic databases provide ready ...

Electronic databases provide ready resources for AEC users

Automating the search for various design and construction-related information will take large strides this year with the introduction of of recent origin systems that tap into the immense databases of Sweet's and R Means.

The SweetSearch scheme is a kind of automated offshoot of the Sweet's catalogs. It involves about 526 individual databases containing information onward a total of 22,565 performances or product lines. All of this information resides forward CD-ROM (compact disc-read only memory), a format that is an alphanumeric and