Blueprint Reading Construction Drawings for the Building Trades by Sam A. Kubba

The blueprint as we all know it immediately, which is actually the cyanotype course of, also referred to as the outdated monochrome photographic printing course of that produces a cyan-blue print, was developed by British astronomer and photographer Sir John Herschel in 1842. Mixed with new applied sciences, the blueprint has developed via the years and is now produced in digital format and printed on white paper. No matter it’s referred to as, or printed on, or nonetheless it’s processed, the blueprint mainly has one operate and message: make it as proven.

Now the query is, does it include sufficient appropriate info to make it as proven, and do the individuals who will implement it have adequate {qualifications} to interpret the blueprint and to make it as proven? Subsequently, the burden is on each the producers and the interpreters of the blueprint. In his ebook, Blueprint Reading: Construction Drawings for the Building Trades, Sam Kubba addresses a century-old downside—producing and understanding the blueprint’s message.

Blueprint producers are primarily the individuals with skilled schooling and expertise and are licensed of their associated fields in virtually each trade. Implementers are the individuals who remodel the info into actuality. As a lot as the {qualifications} of the producer are important, the executer can also be an indispensable part—as one designs, the different applies, and the two develop into one creation.

As Kubba explains in some element—primarily for the constructing trades and the development trade—there may be ongoing concern with bettering this course of from inception to completion of the creation. It’s to the benefit of everybody concerned on this course of, together with generations of people that will profit from the finish product, that concepts are understood, remodeled, and utilized correctly. In any other case, substandard transformation and utility will produce dissatisfied customers of the constructing.

Schooling, coaching, a scientific strategy, communication, coordination, understanding, and commerce data are the key parts to transform concepts into actuality. This ebook addresses these points and guides the reader on a profitable path of implementation. A ebook of this scope would have been extraordinarily troublesome with out the help and help of quite a few people—mates, colleagues, architects/engineers, and contractors—who contributed significantly to the formation and crystallization of my ideas and insights on a lot of the matters and points mentioned herein.

Table of contents :

Cover……Page 1
Title ……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR……Page 8
CONTENTS……Page 10
FOREWORD……Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……Page 18
INTRODUCTION……Page 20
1. BLUEPRINT STANDARDS……Page 24
2. BLUEPRINTS AND CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS: A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE……Page 32
3. UNDERSTANDING LINE TYPES……Page 60
4. UNDERSTANDING DIMENSIONS……Page 76
5. TYPES OF VIEWS……Page 94
6. LAYOUT OF CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS……Page 134
7. UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL BLUEPRINTS……Page 186
8. THE MEANING OF SYMBOLS……Page 218
9. UNDERSTANDING SCHEDULES……Page 242
10. INTERPRETING SPECIFICATIONS……Page 262
11. BUILDING CODES AND BARRIER-FREE DESIGN……Page 280
12. CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT……Page 304
APPENDIX 1: ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS……Page 324
APPENDIX 2: GLOSSARY……Page 338
APPENDIX 3: COMMON CONVERSION FACTORS……Page 360
APPENDIX 4: TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS……Page 368
Index……Page 378

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Blueprint Reading: Construction Drawings for the Building Trades

Author(s): Sam A. A. Kubba

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Year: 2009

ISBN: 0071549862