Working Drawings Handbook
2.14 Elevations as a guide to external finishes not readily described in detail by other means
indicate that it is the third type of brickwork in that
schedule, which given that the project included the
full CI/SfB nomenclature as part of its documentation
would be found in the Fg (bricks and blocks) section of
that specification. The intricacies of full CI/SfB coding is
of course unnecessary unless so desired. ‘Brickwork
Type 3’ would have been an equally specific
identification, provided it were so described in the
specification.
In the smaller project, however, only two types of brick
were used—a common brick and a facing brick. So in
this instance the description ‘facing brick’—assuming the
specification has fulfilled its proper descriptive function—
was perfectly adequate.In neither case is it likely that the routine of the drawing
office was disrupted a year later by someone
telephoning from site to ask ‘which brick goes here?’Figure 2.15 shows the virtues of secondary structuring of
drawings and the inherent flexibility of elementalisation
when used with common sense and imagination. The
project in question was one of a number dealing with a
similar building type, each of which involved the
appointment of a nominated sub-contractor for various