January 13-14, 2026 20 hours online , Earn 6 Gold Seal Credits
The construction industry relies on various types of documents to create a clear understanding of rights and responsibilities with respect to a construction contract. One of those types of documents is what are commonly known as the plans.
Unlike other contract documents, construction drawings are graphic representations of the project showing the location, sizes and relative relationship of the various components to one another. By interpreting these drawings, owners, prime contractors, trade contractors and other key stakeholders will understand how the project is to be constructed and how it should look and function upon completion.
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Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand and interpret most types of construction drawings.
- Define common drawing interpretation terminology and nomenclature.
- Identify the common components of a title block.
- List the common order of most construction drawings.
- Differentiate between plan views, cross sections, elevations, and details.
- Interpret items shown using two dimensional drawings as three-dimensional objects by navigating between views.
- Discuss the relevance of varying line weights and types.
- Understand the principles and benefits of using orthographic projection vs perspective.
- Differentiate between scales in both imperial and metric systems of measure.
- Understand dimensioning and elevations in both imperial and metric systems of measure.
- Differentiate between nominal and actual dimensioning, as well as hard and soft metric to imperial conversions.
- Interpret common symbols and abbreviations.
Cost is $740, WCA and HCA members email to [email protected] to register