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The document discusses how to prepare structural drawings, including what structural drawings are, their composition, certification requirements, advantages and disadvantages. Structural drawings are engineering drawings that show structural requirements for a design. They must include foundation plans, beam and slab layouts, reinforcement details and be certified by a designer.

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How To Prepare Structural Drawings

The document discusses how to prepare structural drawings, including what structural drawings are, their composition, certification requirements, advantages and disadvantages. Structural drawings are engineering drawings that show structural requirements for a design. They must include foundation plans, beam and slab layouts, reinforcement details and be certified by a designer.

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How to Prepare Structural Drawings?

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Introduction
Structural drawings are the sets of engineering drawings prepared for or intended to
communicate the structural requirement for the design structure. In this article, we will
discuss how to prepare structure drawings for any building.

Table of Contents

1 What are Structural Drawings?


2 Composition of Structural Drawings
3 As per the Building Regulation of Bhutan 2018
4 Certification of Technical Drawings
5 Advantages of Structural Drawings
6 Disadvantages of Structural Drawings
7 Frequently Asked Questions

What are Structural Drawings?


Structural drawings are sets of engineering drawing prepared by a certified engineer for
designed buildings or any other structure which demand it. The sets of drawing should
consist of every detail drawing of the structural components and building elements.

This is the last stage in the structural design by the structural engineer. The structural design
and analysis are done for the given architectural design. It is very crucial to do a thorough
study of the proposed architectural drawing before designing and analysing it. After
designing and analysing one should start with drafting or preparing structural drawings.
Otherwise, the design file should be handed over to the draft personnel for preparing the
required drawings.

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Preparing Structural Drawings in CAD software

Composition of Structural Drawings


The drawings should consist of all the necessary drawings. However, the following are the
general consideration for the compilation of the drawings.

1. Structural Drawing note


2. Foundation and footing drawing
3. Column layout and section drawings
4. Beam layout and section drawing
5. Floor slab layout and section drawing
6. Staircase plan and section drawing
7. Truss layout and section drawings
8. Wall section details
9. Other documents such as designer certificate, design worksheet/calculation/result must
be attached

As per the Building Regulation of Bhutan 2018


The structural drawings shall include the following:

1. Notes:

Calculation note-sheets
design codes (used for designing)
material specification/ properties of the materials
The geotechnical report for soil (soil bearing capacity) is attached with the drawing
levels, measurement units and scale of the drawings

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2. A foundation plan

foundation details, including the depth of the foundation and plinth level and in the case of
foundations on different levels – retaining details

3. Details of the beam and slab layout plan of each floor, showing clearly the staircase
opening, shaft opening and any other openings and depressions;
4. Concrete and reinforcement details of foundation, beams, slab, staircase, lintel,
cornice, projections, zhu and Rabsel, wall and other features;
5. Truss elevations and connection details showing the holding-down details;
6. Details and location of separation gaps;
7. Details of splice locations and splice length for beams, columns, slab and staircase;
8. For load-bearing walls – details of plinth band, lintel band and roof band, including
vertical bars at corners, opening jambs and wall junctions; and
9. The dimensions of all structural members, including:
10. Anchorage of beam bars in an existing beam-column junction; and
11. column ties and beam stirrup details.

Certification of Technical Drawings


The drawing prepared should be certified by the designer for the application. However, the
drawing should seek approval from the government office or regulatory body before the
execution of the works.

The drawing shall be signed by the owner, designer and drafter (if there). The owner’s
signature is done to accept the prepared drawing. The person who prepares the drawing
must sign with the contact details such as e-mail id, contact number and address. The
certificate of the designer must be attached with drawings.

Advantages of Structural Drawings


The advantages of structural drawings are as follows: –

The materials such as steel, concrete and bricks can be estimated by referring to the
drawings
50% of the cost for the construction can be known by preparing the estimate.
Can make a lot of money in the short term by preparing structural drawings.

Disadvantages of Structural Drawings


There are many disadvantages to structural drawings: –

The drawing reading is not easy for the common people or untrained personnel.

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Not all the drawings are identical to each other and have different representations
which may confuse the drawing reader
It is time-consuming while prepare the drawing if the personnel is untrained.

Frequently Asked Questions


1. How long does it take to make a complete set of structural drawings?

Making a complete set of structural drawings dramatically depends upon the type of
structure, number of floors, area of the structure, and design of the structure. It is also
dependent on how good the designer and drafter are at preparing the drawings.
However, these days, due to the availability of CAD software, it has dramatically
reduced the time for preparing neat and standard drawings for the assigned project.
Only very few people (engineers) are preparing the drawing in a traditional way using
the T-square and drawing board.
It takes a month or 2 to prepare a complete set of structural drawings depending upon
the magnitude of the project works.

2. How many types of structural drawings are there?

Basically, structural drawings are one type of drawing prepared by the structural
engineer. However, structural drawings can be classified into two categories namely
concrete work drawings and reinforcement work drawings. There are other
classifications of structure drawing as well. These are Standard details drawing, Typical
drawings and Record drawings.

3. What is the difference between Engineering Drawing and Structural Engineering


Drawings?

An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing that is used to convey


information about an object. Whereas, structural drawing is a representation of the
design aspect of the structure like buildings, bridges, tunnels etc…

4. Who regulates the technical drawings?

The government agency is the one to check the drawings as per the regulation
published by the regulatory authority.

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