Atika Jain- Week 5

Creating Construction Drawings Is An Art.

Putting together a clear, concise, and thorough set of construction documents for a contractor to build from is a skill and an art form. Anyone who does this work has their own systems, theories, and philosophies about how to put together a set of drawings.

The real power of picking up redlines is doing this job with many different people and tapping into the collective knowledge of the office. Everyone at the office has different experience and a different area of expertise. A good attitude to have as an Intern is: Knowing there is valuable knowledge you can learn from every single person at the office and being open to learning something from everyone