Working Drawings Handbook
would all be better served if there were several drawings
to replace it. Let us consider the various ways in which
the crowded information might be distributed.
The Department of the Environment Report, ‘Structuring
Project Information’ lists no fewer than nine separate
non-traditional systems that include in their make-up
some degree of information structuring. The 1970s and
1980s saw a widespread and largely uncoordinated
experimentation in building communications techniques,
generated by an increasing demand on the resources of
an overstretched profession and building industry, and a
growing awareness of the inefficiency and waste of time
on building sites being caused by inadequate
documentation. Not all these systems were at that time
sufficiently well tested to allow a genuine evaluation of
their merits.Now, some twenty years later, we are in a better position
to obtain a proper perspective of the field, and the
problem becomes somewhat clearer. Some of the
communications systems then presenting themselves for1.11 Typical information drawing—this record of bore hole findings provides the contractor with useful
background information but gives no instructions about the building