In the homebuilding-trade, we Architects tend to keep things simple for our sakes and the poor guys in the field. It works fine for both new homes and for renovations and additions;
CS for Coversheets, general condition, specs and schedules.
D for demolition and existing features.
A for the actual architectural floor plans, sections and elevations.
AD (or D if you haven't used it) for the large-scale isolated details.
S for the structural drawings or the drawings by the Struct. Engr.
M for the mechanicals, AC, etc...
P or PL for the plumbing risers, etc.
E for the electrical layouts and panels.
L for the landscape drawings, and sometimes the irrigation.
The site engineering , improvemets, and grading and subsurface drawings are always a seperate roll by the civil engineer on his title-block anyway.
Often the CS, D, A and AD are just combined as "A", with just the actual cover being CS-1.
So far in twenty-years, I've never seen the need to get any more complicated for single-family houses, townhouse or even for low-rise apartment/condo buildings. Depending on the project, I just number the drawings sequentially from CS-1 to E-30; or internally-label each section sequentially. Then if you have to add a sheet or two later-on, you can just label them with a suffix "a" or ".1" My personal-peeve is that I HATE ".0"-sheets. If you're going to use a repeating internal-series (say for identifying Elev-A from Elev-B or Elev-C in a house-plan to be repeated), just start at ".1" or ".a" and be consistant.
I do believe that any drawings by a professional consultant that is on his-titleblock shoud have it's own Letter-code and be number starting at "1".
Those drawings should clearly be a "unit", as they are his professional responsibility....even though he's your consulatant. If the engineering is being shopped-out to consulatants, they can just label them S-1 through S-3.4 for example. or S-1 through S-4c. Just be sure that each engineer follows the same structure.
I generally don't assign sheet-numbers until I have a fairly-good idea of what the full set is going to consist-of. As with the AIA Layering system, their's is way too complicated for small firms with smaller, less complex projects. Clarity is more important than consistancy in the field.
CS for Coversheets, general condition, specs and schedules.
D for demolition and existing features.
A for the actual architectural floor plans, sections and elevations.
AD (or D if you haven't used it) for the large-scale isolated details.
S for the structural drawings or the drawings by the Struct. Engr.
M for the mechanicals, AC, etc...
P or PL for the plumbing risers, etc.
E for the electrical layouts and panels.
L for the landscape drawings, and sometimes the irrigation.
The site engineering , improvemets, and grading and subsurface drawings are always a seperate roll by the civil engineer on his title-block anyway.
Often the CS, D, A and AD are just combined as "A", with just the actual cover being CS-1.
So far in twenty-years, I've never seen the need to get any more complicated for single-family houses, townhouse or even for low-rise apartment/condo buildings. Depending on the project, I just number the drawings sequentially from CS-1 to E-30; or internally-label each section sequentially. Then if you have to add a sheet or two later-on, you can just label them with a suffix "a" or ".1" My personal-peeve is that I HATE ".0"-sheets. If you're going to use a repeating internal-series (say for identifying Elev-A from Elev-B or Elev-C in a house-plan to be repeated), just start at ".1" or ".a" and be consistant.
I do believe that any drawings by a professional consultant that is on his-titleblock shoud have it's own Letter-code and be number starting at "1".
Those drawings should clearly be a "unit", as they are his professional responsibility....even though he's your consulatant. If the engineering is being shopped-out to consulatants, they can just label them S-1 through S-3.4 for example. or S-1 through S-4c. Just be sure that each engineer follows the same structure.
I generally don't assign sheet-numbers until I have a fairly-good idea of what the full set is going to consist-of. As with the AIA Layering system, their's is way too complicated for small firms with smaller, less complex projects. Clarity is more important than consistancy in the field.
