Browse Forums Building A New House Re: cost of home design drawing 3Nov 12, 2008 3:29 pm Peter Clarkson - AusDesign Australia www.ausdesign.com.au This information is intended to provide general information only. It does not purport to be a comprehensive advice. Re: cost of home design drawing 13Nov 17, 2008 9:02 am david s Pat the draftie Finally, 'there are limits to what a draftie can do' is not really a valid statement, they are completely different trades. Its like comparing a car to a motorbike. Regards, Pat. My point "there are limits to what a draftie can do" is referring the structural design of the house such as the slab design, footings and pierings, roof tie downs, wall bracing, truss design etc which is something normally handled by a structural engineer. I don't know if architects can do some of the structural design since they spend years at uni, maybe you could clear that part up. (i know builders can do some of the structural design under limited circumstances) My point to the OP is that the structural drawings maybe a considerable cost, this maybe in addition to the architectural drawings provided by a draftie or an architect and is something that I would definitely be clarifying. And builders won't quote houses based architectural drawings alone without any structural details - read some of the posts here where people have site fees of $50,000 due to reactive soils. There are just too many variations. I'll try and clear this up a bit. When Im talking about Architects and drafties, Im talking about the field of architecture. Architects doing the design role in this field, architectural drafties doing the documentation role in this field. Structural design/drafting is a whole other ball game. Youll find that neither an architect or or architectural draftie will do structural drawings, for a few good reasons. 1) They are not qualified to carry out this work, and more than likely will not know what their talking about. They'll either under design the structure, and it may fail, or they'll overdesign the structure and add huge unnecessary expense to the project. 2) In the age of legal insurance and Personal Indemnity Insurance, any architect or architectural draftie would have the pants sued off them for specifying a column or beam that later failed, for that reason youll find notes all over architects and drafties drawings saying 'Refer to Structural Engineers drawings and specifications' this note always occurs around footing details, roof details, columns, beams, etc etc, ie anything structural. 3)Building licence departments of any shire in the country will only accept signed structural drawings by qualified structural engineers. You'll find that an architect or draftie will usually recognise when a column or beam is required, and will have a best guess at it. But really the structural engineer works out all the loads, forces, etc and advises on the optimum structural size required. Thats why they charge the big bucks! In summary; Architects / Architectural Drafties - Do architectural work. Structural Engineers - Do structural Work. Hope this helps. Pat. We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16287 ideal house depends on the site and location as much as internal floor plan....what is the distance from the house to all four boundaries, where is north, describe your… 3 15169 7 12018 |