From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications
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Structural drawings - Bluebeam Tutorial
From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications
Structural drawings
- [Instructor] As I said in the last segment, the structure of a building might be designed by the architect and that's the case here in our sample project with this house. But just be aware that as a project gets more complex or has different elements to it, say a concrete parking structure, the architect may hire another consultant typically called a structural engineer to design those structural details, and produce the structural drawings. And in that case, when I go to my drawing list or my sheet index, I would expect to see a group of drawings labeled structural, and designated with an S in front of them. Now again, we don't have that here. And you know, if we go over to our bookmarks, you can see I don't have any structural drawings or anything designated as structural drawings in my bookmarks either, but that doesn't mean that I don't have any structural drawings for this project. It just means that…
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