السبت، 29 يوليو 2017

Importance Of MEP Shop Drawings In A Construction Project

By Debra Scott


When undertaking any construction project, you require proper planning. Planning involves all the initial preparations and on site implementation of all the strategies. You can have excellent project managers, but the success of your project will solely depend on how prepared you are. Before the actual construction begins, the project has to be commissioned. Commissioning is ensuring that all the systems are intact which range from electrical, air conditioning systems, lighting, and drainage systems among others. The biggest setback that most contractors face is preparing MEP shop drawings and getting approval from the regulating authorities.

The shop drawings are significant in any commercial building development and a contractor or subcontractor has to produce the pictures. They are usually required for components that are brought to the site after they have been fabricated in another place. The components that need the pictures include; Millworks, units for hair handling, cabinets, elevators and structural steel among other elements.

A project developer will only give a contractor the job if he can be able to make proper shop drawings. The pictures must have the most reliable details that are not on the first construction document. The construction document details are complex and the system offers you an option of simpler information that can be understood.

Technicians can only conduct fabrication and installation works if the pictures are clear and illustrate every detail in the right way. The version that is developed by the contractor is very essential and it must have variations from what it is in the original document and what the architect has.

Essentially, drawn materials possessed by contractors need to have a number of details in order to allow the architects and even the engineers to comprehend the details in an appropriate manner before approval. The versions by contractors need to be clear in terms of varying out the construction. Documents for construction normally lack the details in the development of shop drawings but should have every necessary detail.

For quick approval, the version that you give as the project contractor must be clear. Engineers and architects at most times have a lot of commitments, and if your illustration does not have clarity they will disapprove it, and this will consequently derail commencement of the actual construction. If you must alter any details that are in the initial construction document your version must indicate all the changes that you have made.

Engineers and architects are always impressed when you can make positive additions on your versions that will have a positive impact on the final project. They will also give approval faster if you can be able to remove any information on the first document that does not have a positive effect on the actual building. Consider initiating a productive dialogue that must involve the architect, engineer, and fabricator if there is any detail that lacks clarity in your version. The other important factor that you must consider when making a version of the initial document is standards, and you require understanding the expected standards by the developer.

The MEP drawings vary depending on the components, an illustration for an elevator will be different from a diagram of an air conditioning system. To ensure that it is well understood you can opt for color codes. These color codes will help you to make corrections if there are clashes.




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