Module 1.1 Flashcards
Specification:
A contractual document used along with construction drawings. Contains detailed written instructions that supplement the set of drawings.
What are some of the results of a failure to properly read construction drawings/specifications?
Costly rework
Unhappy Customers
Legal Liability
Context: Reading Plans - Bench Mark
A point established by the surveyor on or close to the building site. Used as a reference for determining elevations during the construction of a building.
Context: Reading Plans - Contour Lines:
Imaginary lines on site/plot plan that connect points of the same elevation. They NEVER cross each other.
Context: Reading Plans - Easement
A legal right-of-way provision on another person’s property. (For example the right of a neighbor to build a road, or a public utility company to install gas and water lines on a property.) A property owner cannot build on an area where an easement has been identified.
Context: Reading Plans - Elevation View
A drawing giving a view from the front or side of a structure.
Context: Reading Plans - Front Setback
The distance from the property line to the front of the building
Context: Reading Plans - Monuments
Physical structures that mark the location of a survey point.
Context: Reading Plans - Nominal Size
The approximate (commercial) size by which lumber, block, etc is commonly known and sold. A 2x4 for example isn’t actually EXACTLY 2x4
Context: Reading Plans - Plan View
A drawing that represents looking down on an object.
Context: Reading Plans - Property Lines
The recorded legal boundaries of a piece of property
Context: Reading Plans - Quantity Takeoff
A procedure that involves surveying, measuring, and counting all materials indicated on a set of drawings.
Context: Reading Plans - Riser Diagram
A schematic drawing that depicts the layout, components, and connections of a piping system.
Context: Reading Plans - Topographical survey
An accurate and detailed drawing of a place or region that depicts all the natural and man-made physical features, showing their relative positions and elevations.
Drawing set:
A set of detailed drawings or plans drawn to scale by an architect/engineer showing all of the information/dimensions to build or remodel a structure. Copies of these are distributed, called Blueprints.
What is the the information normally contained in a drawing set?
Title sheets
Title Blocks
Revision Blocks
Architectural drawings
Context: Reading Plans - Title Sheet
Normally placed at the beginning of a set of drawings, or at the beginning of a major section of specific drawings. Provides index for the drawings; abbreviations, symbols, and other project data such as location, size of land, etc.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Section Drawings
Shows how a particular feature looks inside or how something is put together internally.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Examples of things you’d find in a section view
Details of construction and info about stairs, walls, chimney, etc. Floor levels in relation to grade, wall thickness at various locations. And anchor and reinforcing steel.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Schedules
Schedules are tables that describe and specify the various types and sizes of materials used in the construction of a building.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Examples of schedules
Door schedules, Window schedules, finish schedules. All of particular importance to the carpenter.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Structural drawings
Created by a structural engineer and accompany the architects plans. Usually drawn for large structures such as offices or factories.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Plumping, Mechanical, and Electrical plans
Exactly what they sound like
Context: Architectural Drawings - Shop drawings
Specialized drawings that show how to fabricate and install components of a construction project
Context: Architectural Drawings - As built drawings
Drawings showing what was actually done in the construction.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Soil Reports
Soil conditions of the area.
Context: Architectural Drawings - Foundation Plans
Give information about the location and dimensions of footings, grade beams, foundation walls, stem walls, piers, windows, doors, etc.
