Structural shop drawings are very significant for fabricators

Structural Shop drawings are extremely significant for fabricators Structural detailing is the most important process and an indispensable part of structural design as it helps in the creation of effective structural shop drawings that are used in fabrication of structural components or parts. Apart from structural shop drawings erection drawings are also created in structural detailing process, which are used by erectors when they erect a structure in the construction location.

Structural detailing is quite a technical process wherein detailed plans, drawings and other specifications are developed by detailers which are totally based on the specifications that are sent by architects and structural engineers. As detailers are not that competent with the complexities and technicalities of structural design it is necessary for them that they obey each and every instruction that is provided to them by architects and engineers. If specifications are followed accurately by the detailers of a service providing company there remain very less chances of mistakes in the drawings developed by them.

That is why they go through the specifications over and over again until they get an exact understanding of them so that effective shop drawings and erection drawings can be generated by them.

Structural shop drawings are specially created for the optimization of fabricators and hence these drawings provide detailed information to them regarding the structural components or elements.

Information about structural parts like beams, columns, braces and joists etc is provided accurately in shop drawings such as material specifications, component size and dimension etc.

This information is very significant for fabricators as structural components are manufactured by them only after going through these drawings. As development of structural parts depends largely on shop drawings their accuracy can never be compromised. This is the prime reason that once structural shop drawings are created by detailers of engineering service providing company their review by architects and structural engineers is compulsory. So before shop drawings are provided to fabricators for the fabrication of structural members their detailed review is conducted by structural engineers so that potential dangers can be avoided. This is how effective shop drawings are created by detailers which are later on used by fabricators.