Lunch + Learn Agenda

I've been preparing for a lunch and learn with a firm that Accipiter has been contracted with. The lunch and learn has 3 major categories:

1. SOP and Best Practices for Architects

2. SOP and Best Practices Using Revit

3. Anatomy of Construction Documents

The full agenda document is cut and pasted below. More detail is intended. This is more of a brain dump than anything.

• CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS AS CONTRACT DOCUMENTS

• SHEETS IN SET

  • COVER SHEET

    • ABBREVIATIONS

    • PROJECT LOCATION MAP

    • POSSIBLY PROJECT PERSPECTIVE

    • UTILITY PROVIDERS

    • RELEVANT CODES

    • PROJECT TEAM

  • CODE SHEET?

  • GENERAL CONDITIONS + NOTES?

  • LIFE SAFETY

  • PHASE PLAN - IF NEEDED

  • SURVEY WITH DISCLAIMER

  • SITE PLAN EXISTING OR DEMO

  • SITE PLAN - CAN INCLUDE SCOPE DELINEATION

  • SITE DETAILS

  • FLOOR PLAN BY LEVEL

    • DEMO PLAN

    • DIMENSIONAL FLOOR PLAN

    • PARTITION OR WALL TYPES

  • ROOF PLAN

  • FINISH PLAN BY LEVEL

  • RCP BY LEVEL

  • SUPPORT BUILDINGS OR SITE STRUCTURES (ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS, PLANS, ENLARGED PLANS, DETAILS 

  • ENLARGED PLANS

  • PLAN DETAILS

  • FURNITURE PLAN - DISCLAIMER THAT THIS IS A COURTESY - DON'T STAMP

  • EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS

  • INTERIOR ELEVATIONS

  • MILLWORK SECTIONS (CAN BE PART OF SECTIONS IF PREFERRED)

  • BUILDING SECTIONS

  • WALL SECTIONS

  • SECTION DETAILS

  • DOOR + WINDOW SCHEDULE (GRAPHIC + LIST) - SEE ADDITIONAL NOTE BELOW

  • FIXTURE LIGHTING EQUIPMENT SCHEDULES IF NEEDED AND NOT IN MEP

  • HEAD SILL JAMB DETAILS

  • ALL SUBS DRAWINGS:

    • CIVIL

    • LANDSCAPE

    • STRUCTURAL

    • MECHANICAL

    • PLUMBING

    • ELECTRICAL

    • AV

    • SPECIALTY - POOL

• FINISH SCHEDULE

  • FLOOR

  • CEILING

  • WALL

  • BASE

  • TRIM

  • MILLWORK

  • TRANSITION

  • ITEMS SUCH AS CORNER TREATMENT IF NOT IN SPECS

  • ITEMS SUCH AS DRYWALL REGLETS CAN BE TRIM OR IN SPECS

• DOOR SCHEDULE FIELDS

  • NUMBER

  • LEVEL?

  • LOCATION?

  • WIDTH

  • HEIGHT

  • THICKNESS ?

  • TYPE

  • MATERIAL

  • FINISH

  • FRAME TYPE

  • FRAME MATERIAL

  • FRAME FINISH

  • HEAD DETAIL REFERENCE

  • JAMB DETAIL REFERENCE

  • SILL DETAIL REFERENCE

  • CONTROLLED ACCESS?

  • HARDWARE SET

  • FIRE RATING

  • COMMENTS

• DOOR HARDWARE CAN OFTEN BE FILLED OUT BY A CONSULTANT/REP

• SPECS AND DRAWINGS NEED TO BE COORDINATED

• SPECS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CONTRACT AND CAPABILITY TO CONTROL QUALITY OF BUILDING - LOW END CONTRACTORS 

• CONTRACTS

• SUBS COORDINATION

• WORKING DRAWINGS

• STAMP MANAGEMENT

• REVIT MODELING BEST PRACTICES 

  • EVEN DIMENSIONS 

  • LEVELS + GRIDS

  • UNIT MANAGEMENT

  • COORDINATION WITH SUBS

  • SHEET INSERTION POINT

  • FAMILY LIBRARY

  • TEMPLATES

  • NAMING CONVENTIONS

  • KEYNOTES

    • ELEMENT

    • MATERIAL

    • USER

    • KEYNOTE RELOAD FILE REFRESH PROCESS

  • ABBREVIATION CONVENTION 

  • COURSING OUT MATERIALS 

  • CONVERSION FROM ONE PLATFORM TO REVIT

  • VIEW TEMPLATES

  • PHASES

  • DEMO CAPABILITIES

  • OPTIONS

  • WORKSHARING

  • BACKUPS

  • OPENING FILES AND PINNING RECENT

  • MOVING ITEMS USING DISTANCE RATHER THAN VISUAL

  • MOVING THINGS BY REFLECTION AND ALIGNMENT

  • PINNING AND LOCKING

  • LOCKING CRITICAL DIMENSIONS AND CONSTRAINING DESIGNS TO DESIGN INTENT

  • WINDOWS VS CURTAIN WALLS VS STOREFRONT SYSTEMS

  • NOTES VS KEYNOTES VS LEGENDS

• RECORD FILE STORAGE

• NOTES

• CONTRACTS

• MEETING NOTES AND DOCUMENTATION OF PROCESS

• INTERNATIONAL WORK

• SPANISH CAPACITY 

• AI

• PROPOSALS - STREAMLINE AND AUTOMATE

• FORMS - AUTOMATE

• NEWSLETTER 

• SIGNS AT JOB SITES 

• REVIT OPTIONS 

  • SPACE DELINEATION 

  • PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE - SCHEDULE OF INITIAL CLIENT WANTS

  • PROJECT INFORMATION TO THE MAX

  • LOCATION ACCURACY

  • TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION 

  • FULL FRAMING MODEL

  • NONTRADITIONAL VIEWS

  • RHINO REVIT INTEGRATION 

  • SKETCHUP REVIT INTEGRATION 

  • MATERIAL TAKEOFFS 

  • SOLAR ANALYSIS