From the course: Construction Management: Reading Civil Construction Drawings
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Dimensions and scales
From the course: Construction Management: Reading Civil Construction Drawings
Dimensions and scales
- [Instructor] If you've worked with construction drawings or blueprints before you may already know that one of the things that sets these apart from sketches or simple schematic drawings is that construction drawings are drawn to scale meaning that they're a scaled down version of what will actually be built out in real life in the field. This means that if you know the scale used on the drawings we can measure things on the drawings and convert that into the measurements that we'll use out in the field. When you move through a set of construction drawings from the building drawings which can include architectural drawings, structural plans, electrical and plumbing plans, and then onto the civil drawings, you should expect to see a change in the scale used on those drawings. So on building drawings common scales will include things like a quarter of an inch equals a foot or one eighth of an inch equals one foot.…
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