From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications

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Drilling down to the details

Drilling down to the details

- [Instructor] In construction, lots of things come down to the details. I can look at the plan view and get information on things like how many wooden studs I need to build a wall by just getting the length of the wall and finding the note about stud spacing. But if I want to see how the studs connect to the floor, I'm going to need to look somewhere else for more detail. And we saw that in the Wall Detail page earlier. We also saw examples when we discussed the structural drawings of jumping to the Structural Detail page to find more information about the footings and foundation walls. Let's go ahead and take a look at that again and see where that leads us. So we'll go back to the foundation plan and zoom in to that detail note that we saw before. And again, all the information that we saw on the plan view was that this is a two foot wide concrete footing. And for more information, we need to go to detail 1 on sheet…

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