Hey everyone! It's DesignChickee here I'm actually working on a set of
construction drawings today and I want to take you through it so today is all
about drawings I've been reviewing drawings redlining drawings marking them
up it's for a project that I think I showed you a month ago like last year
it's a corporate project that is about 3,000 square feet and I think I took you
through the space planning for that project while the space plan has been
approved and the next step or a series of steps is to produce the construction
drawings and construction drawings are really at the pure basic level trying to
get what's in my head what this space will look like onto paper so that a
contractor can read and see the design and be able to build it so most
construction Oh have have you noticed have you noticed
what's going on out there like so I'm gonna take you through the construction
set what we have so far we haven't started really designing yet there's
sort of beginning stages of design and by design I mean what things will look
like in terms of finishes and colors and materials but first we sort of try to
layout the construction plan because that's a huge part of the construction
set okay here we have the first sheet in the construction set and it obviously
has the name of the client it has a key plan so in this case we have the full
building but just that portion of the building is being constructed this plan
is not in the scope this we're not touching it always has a list of drawing
so you'll see there that a zero is the cover sheet a one is our general
specifications sheet a two is the furniture plan and so on and then this
is the furniture plan so I always like to put the furniture plan up front so
that the contractor has a very quick overview of what that whole space will
look like in the end you'll see here that all the private
offices are in place the boardroom there's furniture so it's a pretty good
overview of the project the next drawing is our demolition plan you'll notice
that I have started writing up some notes so these are notes for the
contractor because here we're adding a door that does not exist and so we're
just letting him know that there's a window there that he has to remove but
he has to replace it with a door and then all of these broken lines here
these little dotted lines those are existing walls that need to be removed
so contractor needs to know what's staying and what is going this is our
partition plan so our partition plan always has quite a bit of information on
there we're actually laying down a t-bar ceiling in this space and a lot of that
t-bar ceiling actually shows you where that your walls are gonna go so a lot of
dimensions on this plan indicating all the partitions as well as this hatched
area in here that's built in no work so there's quite a bit of information there
and each plan also has a schedule and a legend so you'll notice here that some
of our walls are white inside and others have a texture inside so that's listed
out here in our legend so the contractor knows which wall type goes where this is
our reflected ceiling plan our reflected ceiling plan is usually my favorite plan
I just find it really fun to look at and to produce so you'll see here again we
have our t-bar ceiling which is that grid and then all of these rectangles
with the slash going through it those are lights in the board rooms a little
bit more detailed so we have a suspended drywall ceiling that's what this
indicates and then we have some pot lights and again the legend this is our
power and communications plan so this is really helpful to have the furniture in
dotted so that we can see where all of that furniture goes
having a power plant is really important because for instance if there's a
printer in this area then we obviously need a plug a lot of times those
printers large scale printers and copiers have specific requirements for
plugs and so we need to know that in advance and we need to tell the
contractor that that particular plug is different than a normal click this here
is the finishes plan so right now it's fairly empty there'll be quite a bit of
information in terms of a legend and some notes on this plan eventually but
right now it's left blank then we have something called a door schedule door
schedule is really important because it lists out the number of doors all of the
doors specifically and then what their sizes will be what their finish will be
and what hardware will go on those doors and then we've got also drawings showing
the contractor the style of the doors and over here we have the partition type
so these are the different walls that we have in the plan we have sections for
each one so that the contractor can see how to build each wall this is sort of
the beginnings of the design phase so this particular wall here is all about
the wall at the end of the boardroom so we've got some tall cabinets on either
side of this large area where there's lower cabinets below and then this is
the area where the TV will go we're potentially putting in some
wallpaper and two sconces on either side so again that's just the beginnings of
what I think that space should look like and then the next step is to figure out
what kind of finish is happening on all of it so there you have it a quick
review on the set of construction drawings that I'm working on they're
fairly close to being complete we do still have to figure out all of the
actual finishes and that's that's a very detailed
drawing on on its own once I come back from my meeting with a client and make
any revisions that they make on the drawings the next step is really
focusing on those finishes and design of the space what I call the design of the
space so we'll be looking for carpet and we'll be looking for wallpaper and tiles
for the bathrooms and different ceiling lights sconces we've got a few options
for different sconces in the space as well even as detailed as hardware for
the doors so all of that information has to be gathered up and then present it to
the client and that's the design phase and all that information once it's
approved will then be added to our construction drawing set and then the
set will be complete and it'll go out for pricing I think that might have to
go out and shovel that snow so I hope you enjoyed this video please hit the
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