Production Systems for Architects and Designers - Hardcover

Fred A. Stitt

9780442009205: Production Systems for Architects and Designers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442009208 ISBN 13: 9780442009205

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994

Discusses the many ways to save time and money in working drawings readily available to architects, engineers, interior designers, drafters, CADD operators, and project managers. DLC: Architectural design-Data processing.

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Production Systems for Architects and Designers Fred A. Stitt How many ways are there to save time and money in working drawings? Let’s count the ways...ways readily available to architects, engineers, interior designers, drafters, CADD operators, and project managers: 1. Simplification There’s a fast way and a slow way to do every aspect of working drawings, from notation to dimensioning, from finish schedules to specifications. The streamlined ways described in this book can save up to 15% of commonly wasted production time with virtually no investment of time or money. 2. Planning and Supervision Nobody learns how to supervise design and production employees in school, nor have most supervisors had any business training. This book names all the worst management and supervisor problems, and the best practices to guarantee good employee morale along with high productivity. 3. Quality Control Many, if not most, sets of working drawings go to bid without adequate final checking. This expediency is paid for in cascades of change orders, extras, claims, lawsuits, and a national epidemic of building failures. This book shows how to block the relatively few lapses that account for most failures. 4. Design and Presentation Drawings A few simple changes in the way you do your design drawings can save 20% of working drawing time. Fast-track design drawing methods put you ahead of the game the day you start working on any job. 5. Layering, Screening, Overlays Most offices don’t understand the principle of logical and efficient layering of drawings. As a result, plotting a job takes twice as long as it should. With this book, your final job prints are twice as sharp and readable. 6. Standard Details Standard construction details are the easiest efficiency tool any office can implement. You can get up to 80% of time savings on detail drawings, and quality control goes way up too. 7. Photodrafting These days it’s almost criminal not to use photodrafting to show existing conditions, complex details, and specified proprietary products. Do it in-house cheaply, with or without CADD. 8. Keynoting Keynoting is catching on and has the formal approval of the AIA, but it’s not always used intelligently and can cause problems in bidding and construction. This book tells the simplest, most effective ways to make it work for you as well as your contractors. 9. Photocopier Drafting Small jobs can be rushed to bid two to three times faster by using combinations of paste-up techniques on the office copier. One-person firms can produce the work of three-to six-person offices with these magical techniques. 10. CADD Offices that apply old drafting habits to CADD never achieve time or money savings with their computers, and are lucky to match the productivity of manual drafting. That will change when you adapt all the fast-track working-drawing techniques described in this book. 11. Database and Checklist Management Virtually everything a design office does is repeat work of one sort or another. When you save potentially reusable work so that it can be conveniently retrieved, revised, and reapplied to later tasks, it can become the central prize asset of the office. This book shows you how easy it is to create a database of standard details, standard notation, and standard operating procedures in the form of convenient operating checklists. The author of this book, Fred Stitt, is the nation’s leading pioneer in A/E database management.

About the Author:

About the Author Fred Stitt is the founder of the San Francisco Institute of Architecture and the publisher of Guidelines. He is also the author of Construction Administration and Inspection Checklists, Architect's Room Design Data Handbook, and Architect's Detail Library, all published by Van Nostrand Reinhold.

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