VOA 764 - Construction Blueprint Reading

4.3 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to introduce the student, who works in construction, to basic blueprint reading and discusses many diverse areas requiring the reading and/or interpretation of blueprints as related to the construction industry. Topics to be covered are, orthographic projection, terminology, dimensioning, symbols, working to scales, schedules, material lists and details, pictorial representation, and basic parallel projection drafting techniques.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. explain the critical nature of the use of blueprints in commercial and residential construction;2. recognize the separate disciplines that are integrated to produce a set of buildable plans; 3. retrieve information, interpreting that information into a building construction; 4. demonstrate the ability to scale off dimensions and read basic architectural symbols with regard to plumbing, HVAC, structural and electrical building systems; 5. demonstrate the ability to read off basic units of measurement of materials and dimensions, readily converting and performing basic math functions needed for construction; 6. identify the materials needed to construct a building from the plans; 7. demonstrate the ability to visualize and understand the basic architectural views; and 8. determine the differences between rendering and orthographic drawings.