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Important Information On MEP Shop Drawings

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.

Shop drawings are necessary for the development of commercial buildings and contractors as well as subcontractors have to provide pictures of the same. This is an essential component for the sites subsequent even after fabrication in other places. Components that require these pictures are such as cabinets, Millworks, units for handling hair, structural steel, elevators and so on.

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 the drawn material that the contractor has should have precise details to ensure that the architect and engineer comprehend every detail in the right way before approving. The contractor version must be clear on the performance of the construction. Construction documents usually lack vital information and when developing a shop drawing it should include all the information that is essential.

For quick approvals, the versions given by project contractors ought to be clear. Architects and engineers have many commitments hence they will disapprove illustrations that are not proper and have the impact of derailing the period in which the construction works are to begin. When details are to be altered for the original construction documents, your copy also needs to capture and affect every alteration that is made.

Your version as a contractor will be more impressive if you put information that will have a positive impact on the project even if the information was not on the first document. If you scrape off any unnecessary information the engineers will likely approve your drawings faster. If there are details that are not so clear talk with the architect and engineer to ensure that you have explained to them about all the details. Ensure that you have not changed the standards that the developer has.

MEP drawings usually vary depending on the features, for instance, the illustrations for elevators will be variant from that of air conditioning systems when presented as diagrams. To facilitate easy understanding color codes may as well be utilized. The color codes aid in making corrections in case of a clash.




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