Working Drawing Manual (Paperback)

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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!

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Cut the cost and risk of creating crucial construction documents. Errors and omissions in working drawings are the primary causes of building failures, construction cost overruns, extra charges by contractors, and lawsuits. Fred Stitt, a pioneering developer of quality control systems for architects, engineers, and contractors, offers you a comprehensive, up-to-date set of checklists to ensure the accuracy and completeness of these drawings, whatever the building project may be. The portable, easy-to-use Working Drawing Manual includes a system for total working drawing planning and management, plus coordination checklists for: residential, commercial, and institutional projects of all sizes; remodeling and renovation drawings; architectural coordination with landscape, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, civil, structural, and related engineering drawings. Designed to be used with Pat Guthrie's Cross-Check, which can help ensure the continuity and integration of working drawings, the Manual covers all new construction technologies, code requirements, types of bid documentation, and methods of drawing organization, including CADD. Enhanced by a self-study module that assists users in gaining AIA CEU accredidatiion, Working Drawing Manual pays for itself over and over again by helping you avoid expensive, time-consuming problems.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070615543
• ISBN-13: 978-0070615540
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #402,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A no-nonsense, how-to guide, August 1, 2008

By	Kevin Gill (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OUTDATED CSI FORMAT-EVERYTHING BEFORE 2004 IS OBSOLETE, September 15, 2008

By	Emerson T. Szewczyk (Los Angeles,Ca) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

10 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars plan,elevation&section drawing, July 7, 2000

By	Hwang ,gil yoen (SEOUL S.KOREA) - See all my reviews

most practical drawing standards for architects