DOCS 102 Construction Drawing Interpretation Basic

The construction industry relies on various types of documents to create a clear understanding of rights and responsibilities with respect to a construction contract. One of those types of documents is what are commonly known as the plans.
Unlike other contract documents, construction drawings are graphic in nature and are meant to portray the building showing the location, sizes and relative relationship of the various components to one another. By interpreting these drawings, owners, prime contractors, trade contractors and other key stakeholders will understand how the building is to be constructed and how it should look upon completion.
Understanding how to navigate and interpret these documents is a crucial skill that everyone involved in the construction industry must possess.

Who should attend?

All construction industry stakeholders need to understand how drawings work and how to correctly interpret them – especially before entering into contractual agreements based on them.

Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Understand and interpret most types of construction drawings.
2. Define common drawing interpretation terminology and nomenclature.
3. Identify the common components of a title block.
4. List the common order of most construction drawings.
5. Differentiate between plan views, cross sections, elevations, and details.
6. Interpret items shown using two dimensional drawings as three-dimensional objects by navigating between views.
7. Discuss the relevance of varying line weights and types.
8. Understand the principles and benefits of using orthographic projection vs perspective.
9. Differentiate between scales in both imperial and metric systems of measure.
10. Understand dimensioning and elevations in both imperial and metric systems of measure.
11. Differentiate between nominal and actual dimensioning, as well as hard and soft metric to imperial conversions.
12. Interpret common symbols and abbreviations.

This course is accredited for six (6) Gold Seal credits 

• Registrants seeking the Gold Seal credits must:
  Link up to this courses with their own screen/account. (No screen sharing).
  Be prepared to leave their cameras on so that I can again, confirm their participation... and
  Be prepared to complete the quiz/test at the end of the course individually.                           

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations will be accepted up to 48 hours before the scheduled start time of the course for a full refund, unless otherwise indicated. Refunds will not be issued once a course has commenced.