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Summary:
Prepare flawless construction documents every time. How would you like to save up to 50% of the time and money spent on design services for your next building project? Working Drawing Manual, by Fred A. Stitt, gives you systematic checklists for quickly organizing and managing the huge mass of data needed to prepare accurate construction documents for any new building. Guaranteed to help you avoid costly delays, changes, job-site miscommunications and lawsuits, these handy checklists make it a snap to plan the scope and content of each set of drawings...decide exactly what needs to be drawn...and understand how each item in a drawing relates to others. With this easy-to-use guide, you can: make quick work of site plans, floor plans, interior and exterior elevations, roof plans, building cross sections, reflected ceiling plans, schedules, details and wall sections; stay on top of new technologies and code requirements; get up to speed on the New Uniform Drawing Format & CADD Layering Guidelines; improve your skills with the AIA CEU self-study module; and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Rating:
OUTDATED CSI FORMAT-EVERYTHING BEFORE 2004 IS OBSOLETE
Customer Rating:
THIS BOOK IS GREAT EVEN FANTASTIC IT VERY THOUROGH AND A MUST- EXCEPT THEY CHANGED THE CSI MASTER FORMAT CODE IN 2004 SO ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS I GOT THIS BOOK IS OUTDATED AND NO GOOD, I HAVE TO USE THIS BOOK IN TANDEM WITH THE 2004 MASTERFORMAT TO AVOID ERRORS. AND THE TRUTH IS I CANT FIND ANYBOOKS LIKE THIS THAT USE THE 2004 CODES- SO OVERALL ITS A GOOD BOOK
A no-nonsense, how-to guide
Customer Rating:
Fred Stitt's systems approach to working drawings was, and remains, a revelation, if not a revolution. You get your money's worth just from utilizing the modular layout and detail numbering systems alone.
Stitt thinks ahead and realizes that standardization and reusability are important to the architect who is trying to run a profitable and productive practice. So the ability to come up with, say, a standard foundation-to-wall detail, and be able to easily incorporate such standards into a drawing set, is a key aspect of productive profitability. And by adopting a modular sheet layout system, it becomes much easier to fit the sheet together, and avoid cramming details into wierd margins (which still, to this day, happens all too often).
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I was a practicing architect for twelve years, and I used Stitt's working drawing system throughout my career. In fact, I brought that system into several bay area firms, where it is used to this day. Now, I practice law, and I see from the other end how valuable a clear, concise set of working drawings is to controlling the building process and minimizing exposure.
As with many of Stitt's books, this one is a real help.
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