This course is great for beginners such as junior design engineers working in design consultancies or site engineers working in construction companies. If you have just joined the construction industry but experiences some difficulties reading concrete structural drawings so would like to know how the structural drawings look like and how they can be read and interpreted on the construction site, this course will definitely help you manage your job with confidence.

Key Question Discussed

This course strengthens capabilities by giving you the confidence and competence to successfully read and interpret concrete structural drawings for future projects.

• What does a solid and dashed line mean in a concrete profile?

• What is a beam, upturn beam, step, fold, pour strip, prop, set down, recess?

• How to draw sections for a com[plicted concrete profile?

• What information is given in a steel rebar drawing legend?

• What does bar layering mean in a reinforcement drawing?

• How to read the amount and spacing of reinforcement in a plan?

• What is a dead-end, stressing end and pan end for a PT tendon?

• What are PT drapes and which drapes need to be checked?

• What is the column schedule and where to extract the lap length for column bars?