Kerry and Jordan catch up on Kerry’s travels and talk about ICBA’s latest featured course.
Civil Blueprint Reading
Friday, June 14 | In person | Abbotsford
1 Gold Seal Credit
https://icbatraining.arlo.co/w/courses/76-civil-blueprint-reading
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Participants will learn how to read a set of civil construction blueprints, drawing specifications, and general notes. Using various samples of civil blueprints, participants will gain experience and practical knowledge for their day-to-day work on construction projects.
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Have an elementary knowledge of civil blueprint reading as it relates to construction projects.
- Understand in general terms the design process and the role of design professionals.
- Understand how Building Codes and Bylaws impact blueprints.
- Understand specifications and the contractual hierarchy.
- Be familiar with civil, architectural, and structural drawings, and how they fit together.
- Understand symbols, notations, abbreviations, and schedules.
- Understand the information shown on the drawings relative to the location of the storm, sanitary, water lines, manholes, catch basins, etc.
- Know what plan views, sections, elevations, and details are.
- Understand what profiles are and how to interpret the information shown on them.
- Understand civil drawings relative to basic road construction.
- Understand road profiles, cross sections, and standard details.
- Understand and be able to use metric scale rules.
- Understand how to convert metric and imperial dimensions.
- Be able to work with the drawings to obtain basic information on dimensions, area calculations, and the ability to do simple material takeoffs.
