AE 4733 - AE Senior Project Working Drawings

• From schematic drawings, produce a final set of drawings that could be shown to a potential employer, which illustrates the student’s drawing ability, and knowledge of the application of building materials to commercial / industrial construction
• Develop a set of contract documents, including floor plans, site plan, elevations, building sections, details, schedules, and specifications
• Develop a team “plan of attack”
• Sketch any part of the required architectural drawings in freehand, plan, elevation, or isometric view
• Establish and maintain a log of hours, which reflects the amount of time required to produce a set of contract documents
• Utilize recognized construction industry communication forms, procedures and symbols
• Utilize building codes and standards as they relate to their design solution
• Understand drawings and their interrelationships with your design specialty, along with their relationship to the specifications

• Sketching ability
• Architectural graphics skills
• Properties and strength of materials
• Basic concepts of building systems-architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical

• Course overview and standards, assignment of projects and research
• Code and zoning analysis
• Steps to working drawings; project organization and scheduling; sheet organization; sheet layout, floor plans, elevations, building sections, details, schedules
• Development of details schedules and plans
• Check set
• Final coordination
• Final submittals include all working drawings, schedules, and sketches of architectural elements and details of log of hours