Learn to read the different components that make up construction plans and discover how to approach title blocks, line types, views of the work to be built, and more.
Construction Management: Reading Drawings & Specifications
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Plans versus specifications
- Types of construction drawings
- Title blocks
- Understanding the line types
- Dimensions and scales
- Introduction to views
- Plan view
- Elevation view
- Section view
- Isometric view
- The cover sheet and index
- Civil drawings
- Architectural drawings
- Structural drawings
- Mechanical drawings
- Electrical drawings
- Plumbing drawings
- General notes
- Drilling down to the details
- Reference points on drawings
- Understanding the schedules
- Back to the shop drawing
- When the plans don't make sense
- The future of construction drawings
- Next steps
Taught by
Jim Rogers
