The general arrangement drawing
shopfitting works. With certain elements—doors, pelmets
and skirtings, for example—being carried out by the
main contractor in some areas and by the shopfitter in
others, it was important that the method of
documentation employed should be capable of defining
satisfactorily the limits of responsibility for each. It was
also desirable that it should provide for separate
packages of information being available upon which
each could tender.
The method adopted in practice was to treat all the
work of the shopfitter as a (7-) fittings element,
regardless of rigid CI/SfB definitions and to record it on
a (7-) general arrangement plan, while the work of the
main contractor appeared on separate general
arrangement plans covering (2-) primary elements,
(3-) secondary elements and (4-) finishes. Assembly
drawings involving the work of both main contractor and
shopfitter were referenced from all the relevant general
arrangement plans and were included in both packages
of information.General arrangement plans—format
With very small buildings it is perhaps pedantic to ask
that each of (two) plan levels be presented on a
separate piece of paper when both fit happily one above
the other on a single A2 sheet. In general, however, it is
desirable that each sheet should be devoted to one plan2.15 Elementalisation used flexibly in practice. The general arrangement plan gives a clear exposition of the
responsibilities of one sub-contractor—in this case the shopfitter