From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications

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The cover sheet and index

The cover sheet and index

- [Instructor] At the beginning of this course, I used the terms drawing views and drawing types. So, now that we've covered all the different drawing views in our set of construction drawings, let's look at some of the different drawing types that are contained in this set and we'll look at some of the kinds of information that we might expect to find on each one of these drawing types. So, the first drawing type that I want to talk about is the sheet that I've mostly skipped over up until now, and that's this first page that's on your screen, it's the first page in our drawing set and we're going to call this the cover sheet or index sheet. Now, when you look at the cover sheet, maybe the first thing that you'll notice is that it's in a little bit different format than all of the other sheets that we've looked at so far. Specifically, you can see the title block is horizontally across the bottom of the page. And if you…

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