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VDCI

Blueprint Reading

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Overview

Master essential concepts such as drawing types, scale, and the connection between architectural and engineering documents for residential and commercial construction projects. You’ll learn to navigate blueprints, understand symbols, and analyze technical drawings for real-world projects. Perfect for trades professionals, drafters, designers, and interns, this course will help you confidently interpret and apply blueprint knowledge on the job. This course is also available in Spanish.

This course develops core blueprint reading skills by covering construction document organization, drawing relationships, and the interpretation of symbols, legends, and notations. Students learn to analyze title sheets, site plans, floor plans, elevations, structural drawings, and MEP layouts, while gaining an understanding of construction details, sections, and schedules as they apply to both residential and commercial projects.

Syllabus

Residential Blueprint Reading Course Online

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationship between the drawings included in a set of Construction Documents (blueprints).
  • Analyze different drawings and see how scale is presented throughout a set of Construction Documents.
  • Evaluate the similarities between all sets of blueprint construction documents submitted for building permits.
  • Recognize the need for consistency in presenting information in all types of Construction Documents in this online blueprint reading course.

Commercial Blueprint Reading Course Online

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical plans as applied to a mixed-use commercial construction project.
  • Learn to read and interpret symbols, notations, and technical details in accordance with industry standards. Evaluate the similarities between all sets of construction documents submitted for building permits.
  • Work with real-world construction drawings and documents to build practical skills.
  • Understand how blueprints are used to estimate costs, plan projects, and ensure on-site accuracy during construction.

Taught by

Luis Hernandez, David Nguyen, and Matt F.

Reviews

4.6 rating at VDCI based on 1956 ratings

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