From the course: Construction Management: Reading Civil Construction Drawings

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Site plans

Site plans

- [Instructor] Site plans come in many different configurations and as always, it will depend on the complexity of the project and the person that created the drawings. Let's take a look at a few examples and cover some of the basic information that we expect to be included on a site plan. So I'm looking at our sample drawings from the exercise file and I see here in the sheet index that for this project the site plan is labeled as the site slash grading plan. So that just means that they've combined elements of the site plan and the grading plan onto the same sheet. And we'll take a look at that in just a minute. But I also want to point out that there's another sheet in this overall set of construction drawings that's labeled architectural site plan. And I want to show that to you before we look at the civil site plan. So I'll jump back to the very first sheet, the cover sheet in our set of construction…

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