Course Description

Week 1 - Introductions and overview of prints and specifications

Weeks 2 - 6 will be spent going thru the prints in the chronological order of how the building is built:

Week 2 - review site work and concrete, coordination with specifications and other trades

Week 3 - review structural steel and masonry and their coordination with others

Week 4 - review architectural floor plans, cuts, details, reflected ceiling plans

Week 5 - review plumbing and HVAC

Week 6 - review electrical drawings and recap on the whole process

Each class will begin with a worksheet to validate what was learned in the previous class.

Ideal Trainee
This class is excellent for the tradesperson who is just entering the field, or for the person that is transitioning into a position that requires a good understanding of how prints are put together, and how different drawings correlate with each other and all the trades.

Class Capacity: 30

Instructor
Brian Beaver, CSM Group
Brian Beaver has been in the construction industry for nearly 30 years. Brian started as a laborer and carpenter building houses in the Kalamazoo area. After college he served as a field engineer and superintendent for several small and large health care projects in the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek areas. For 20 years he was vice president of a small general contracting company in Lansing, working on commercial renovation projects including occupied office complexes, data centers, higher education, and healthcare. Brian is currently a project director for CSM Group working on projects ranging from $1,000,000 to $15,000,000 in value. Brian taught the ABC Introduction to Blueprint Reading class in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Dates

Tuesday, April 11
Tuesday, April 18
Tuesday, April 25
Tuesday, May 2
Tuesday, May 9
Tuesday, May 16

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Pizza will be provided at the start of each session

The Bouma Corp. Training Room
4101 Roger B Chaffee Memorial Dr SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49548.

Cost

1st Attendee: $299
Each Additional: $249

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