From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications

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Architectural drawings

Architectural drawings

- [Instructor] Much of the course so far has been spent in what we call the architectural drawings. Now, basically, the reason they're called architectural drawings is they're usually a product of the work of the architect, and we can see here in our drawing list an index of all the architectural drawings and again, as you can see, they're designated, generally, with an A in front of the sheet number. Now, as we've seen the architectural drawings, also shown over here in the bookmarks, include things like the floor plan, roof plans, exterior elevations and building cross sections. For a building project, the architectural drawings is really where everything starts. So not only do these architectural drawings give us the general layout and the overall dimensions, and look, and feel of the building, they also begin to tell us how to build the structure, and these architectural drawings also generally form the basis of what…

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