Reading Construction Drawings (1 day)

Description

Setting Out For Construction has developed this course to equip those within commercial, supervision, management, engineering, operative and quality control roles working in the construction industry with the knowledge and skills to interpret and check drawings as required within the context of their job role. Roles attending may include trainee or newly qualified engineers, gangers, foremen, supervisors, estimators, quantity surveyors or any job which requires a technical understanding of the construction process. 

This course is part of our Enhanced Setting Out Skills training and if you wish to book all 4 courses, (Total Station Traverse with On‑Board Workflow, GNSS Awareness, Levelling Technologies for Construction & Reading Construction Drawings), the total cost would be reduced to £990+VAT, saving you £410+VAT.  Please email info@settingoutforconstruction.com once you have booked any of the 4 courses and we can arrange that for you.  You don’t need to attend all 4 courses in the same week, you can attend alternative courses in different week’s that are suitable.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to: 

• Check if a drawing is to the scale shown on the drawing
• Check if a drawing is to scale when no scale is given
• Calculate a scale factor without a scale rule
• Calculate a scale which is not round number
• Take measurements from construction drawings
• Interpret drainage drawings (Layout, cross-sections, elevations, details and manhole schedules)
• Interpret reinforced concrete drawings
• Interpret road alignment and construction detail drawings
• Carry out calculations to check falls and gradients given are correct in relation to invert levels
• Use a systematic method to cross reference information on different drawings and
• Extract relevant information from a construction drawing and create a working sketch
• Define common terminology and abbreviations