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Working Design (1): Execution Drawings Coordination, Annotation and Coding

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    • Assess the required preliminary set of working drawings • Differentiate between the scope of work of the different engineering disciplines. • Prepare architectural working drawings for small to medium scale buildings • Develop preliminary working drawings (plans / sections / elevation / details) required to construct different types of buildings. • Design and implement architectural solutions and details for various building items • Propose and design construction details required for the construction phase. • Identify the necessary and appropriate documents required during the Construction Drawings Phase • Plan for the different site execution stages • Propose and design various types of interior & exterior finishes for floors, walls, and ceilings. • Identify problems that might occur during construction and how to overcome such problems.
  • Course Goals
  • Reduced Inequality
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Climate Action

Requirements

ARC253 OR ARC254 OR ARC255

Description

  • English Description

    Base drawings concept and requirements, “US CSI” standards for working drawings: dimensioning, tagging, annotations, referencing, sheets organization, and others. Types and elements of working drawings as needed to tender, site construction, and/or factory/shop manufacturing, Coordination between the spatial needs of basic technical systems: Structure, HVAC, Lights, and Sanitary, Analyzing, evaluating, choosing, and integrating into design the optimum specifications of different items,
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (30) + Exam Grade (20)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 4, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • • Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2018 International Building Code, 6th Edition, Francis D. K. Ching , Steven R. Winkel, 2019.
  • • Construction Graphics: A Practical Guide to Interpreting Working Drawings, 2nd Edition, Keith A. Bisharat, ISBN-13: 978-0470137505, 2019.
  • • Building Construction Illustrated, 5th Edition, Francis D. K. Ching, ISBN-13: 978-1118458341,2019.
  • • The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings, 3rd Edition, Osamu A. Wakita, Richard M. Linde, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2003.
  • • Sweets – McGraw Hill Construction - http://products.construction.com/
  • • Handout content of the course prepared by the author of the course.