![]() ![]() General notes … this area always gives me a bit of an eyebrow raise. Turnover isn’t something that I have had issues with in my career so maybe I am not giving it proper consideration. When I was postulating why people might not want to do this, the only reason I could think of was “turnover” … maybe it isn’t typically done because that person might not be working for the firm in the 2-year window that this set of drawings has value. It’s not uncommon to list which firms are doing the work but I think it’s worth the extra few moments to include the actual contact person at each firm. Including a section like this seems so incredibly obvious to me but I am surprised how hard it is to find on some projects. There is an email and phone number for every point lead member of the team. ![]() On all of my cover pages, I include a listing and contact information for every member of the project team – including the owner or their designated representative. ![]() Let’s take a minute and discuss what each section includes, despite how obvious some of these sections are (this is where the color coding comes into play …) Other than some jurisdictional information required on the cover of my commercial sheet, the content on the two is basically the same. To make things a bit easier to digest (and to pander to my graphically centric reader base) I went ahead and color-coded each section of my cover page to compare my commercial and residential covers and my interpretation of what is needed. The main difference is that my sheet index is a bit more robust … but that’s about it. The image directly above is my version of a commercial cover page … probably not a surprise to see that it is pretty similar to my residential set. A veritable smorgasbord of information is readily available with minimal effort required to give yourself (or your local code official) a lot of what they need to know so they can effectively start reviewing the set for a permit. At a quick glance, you can see that we used up all the paper real estate the sheet had to offer and without turning a single page, you can find out where it is, the sheets included in the set, general notes, and closeout conditions, code summary and area calculations. The image above is from a project that I’ve covered extensively here on Life of an Architect – one of my favorite projects from the past few years, the cabin project we completed in Wisconsin. Let’s take a look at a typical cover page for one of my projects – and we’ll start with a residential project. Residential projects seem to put as much information as possible on the cover sheet whereas commercial projects seem to relegate the cover sheet to more of a “protector” page and displays barely more than project information and a nice rendering of the work. Right out of the gate, the main distinction seems to present itself between commercial projects and residential projects even though I’m not entirely sure why that should matter. When I say the words “cover sheet” and the topic is architectural drawings, a few different things come to mind … which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it did get me thinking that maybe we should spend a few minutes and have this conversation since it was time for another entry in the architectural graphics series.
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