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On a recent podcast with my one client, Chas Peruto, he mentioned my drawings had convenient gaps in them. What he explained that to mean is that the level of documentation in the drawings allowed his team of builders to have some flexibility in the construction of the building. Basically the drawings have just enough amount of information on them, but not too much information where each component needs to be perfectly installed for everything to work.
Read MoreI’m currently working on a restaurant for a client and one of the items we have to cover in a project like this (or any project) is the bathroom. The building code has a chart that determines the number of men and women’s bathrooms there are, and how many toilets and sinks are required in each bathroom. Smaller restaurants will have a single bathroom for each sex with a sink in it. As the size of the restaurant gets bigger the bigger each bathroom then becomes.
Read MoreHere’s a throw back to a video explaining the concept of breakaway walls that I did a few years ago. Simply put a breakaway wall is purposely designed to break when a certain amount pressure is applied to it. This is used in high flood areas to save the structure. If there walls were not a breakaway wall, the walls and the structure would then be lost in a flood.
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