![]() ![]() Mechanical Sheets: The mechanical engineer’s drawings will show the locations and sizes of all mechanical equipment in an architectural design.Diagrams, details, and schedules also communicate how these components work together to provide a functional plumbing system in a building. ![]() A plan for each level shows every pipe, faucet, and drain. Plumbing Sheets: The plumbing drawings will show the locations and sizes of all inbound and outbound water supply.Architects are most familiar with these drawing types, but there are similarities in drawing types among all disciplines. Architectural Sheets: The architectural drawings graphically communicate (in plan, section, elevation, and details) the architectural components of the building design.Detailed drawings and calculations for each type of structural system in the project are required. Structural Sheets: The licensed Structural Engineer’s drawings provide structural plans, calculations, and details - from an entire level’s beam system, to the detailed connection between structural elements.There is usually coordination required between the Civil Engineer and Landscape Architect. The landscape architecture drawings include plans, sections, and details, in order to effectively communicate to the Contractor and Subcontractors how to construct the various landscape elements. Landscape Architecture Sheets: These drawings are submitted by the licensed Landscape Architect.Civil Engineering Sheets: These drawings include the Civil Engineer’s notes, the grading and utilities plans, and other details.The general drawings include the cover page, building and zoning code analysis, life safety plans, and accessibility and sustainability standards if required. General Sheets: These are the beginning of the construction documents set.Each affiliated building practice provides both types of construction documents: Architecture, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Landscape Architecture, and Civil. All Construction Documents follow this standard, which helps the reader to know where to look among the hundreds of pages of architectural drawings and specifications. There are two things included in Construction Documents: Drawings and Specifications. What is Included in Construction Documents? Good construction documents provide the Contractor the most comprehensive understanding of the Architect’s intent. The construction documents describe precisely, in both large and small scales, every facet of the building design. These are contract binding documents which describe precisely how the design shall be built: methods, materials, building systems, components. The purpose of construction documents is to get the design built. What is the Purpose of Construction Documents? In order for a completed building to receive its final certificate of occupancy from the local authority having jurisdiction, the building must closely match the construction documents submitted in the permit set. In so doing, any issues that arise during permitting can be addressed and corrected in the construction set. While both construction document sets need to be very detailed, it is common practice for the permit set to be delivered prior to the construction set. ![]() These may be delivered in two types of construction documents - a permit set and a construction set. ![]() Here, all the details come together, and construction documents serve two basic purposes: to obtain a building permit, and to get the design built. These documents describe precisely how the Contractor will make the Architect’s design become a built object - through drawings and specifications. Construction documents are directions from the Architect to the Contractor. Even the term ‘construction documents’ sounds boring.īut, construction documents (CDs) are an important part of the architectural process, and provide their own unique opportunities for the designer. All the ‘fun’ stuff - the model making, sketching, conceptual conversations and wild iterations - happens earlier in schematic design. Construction documents may not seem like the most glamorous part of architectural design. ![]()
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