Category: Staff Memos

  • Memo #19 – As soon as IFA review drawings are received, update client with ETA

    We have written before the clients are frenetic about the delivery of their drawings. They want to know WHEN the drawings are coming. If you have received some IFA review drawings 1 hour ago, they will often call within 1-3 hours to ask for an ETA on their drawings. You must be vigilant and proactive…

  • Clarifying Truss Members

    Job Dan Murphy Pakenham. Client Call. Stating that Trusses since there are covered should not be galvanized This was a grey area for us. But going forward, Unless explicitly called for do not galvanise steel unless exposed to the atmosphere without a cover. Trusses are within some sort of cladding. Hence do not galvanize

  • E-00 ISO Metric View

    On A3 should be readable. If not readable add split drawings to more than one sheet. Name drawing E-ISO-1, E-ISO-3 etc so that everyone can easy know it is isometric. Add part marks. Do not show purlins Today me, client and fabricator spent a lot of time on on quote No https://tek1-quotes.herokuapp.com/quotes/3687 trying to identify…

  • Export Grid Lines to IFC

    It is important that grid lines are there in IFC Model. Without grid lines it is hard to locate members on IFC model from drawing. Today I am searching for https://tek1-quotes.herokuapp.com/quotes/3909 col shown on drg E-23 Section JJ. I download the IFC Model. But no grid lines. The IFC model does not look like the…

  • Staff Memo #18 – Put the Correct Address

    Company Name is: Tek 1 Pty Ltd Address is: 35 Bradstreet Road, Mount Waverley, 3149, Victoria, Australia Phone number: +61 (03) 9560 6397 Email: [email protected] I would not wish to see any other address there. This is super important from a legal point of view. Legal notices are “served” at an address. Hopefully we’ll never…

  • Audit Checks

    Common things to audit: Drawing Discipline General Requirements: Weekly Checks Material Take Off Checks Clients need to know when their take off reports are coming. Most are pressured for time. If there is a delay in the quoting process, then you’re basically handicapping the client on their bids. We don’t want that. Status updates to…

  • Q3866 Missing Check dimension
  • Help Fabricators Claim Their Costs

    When something changes, this is what Fabricators want: They want the updated Steel Reports: Steel has a cost. Labour has a cost. Welding has a cost. Cranage has a cost. They also want: 2. An updated IFC model, with a short summary: 3. How much more steel is required: 3 tonnes more steel. See the…

  • Getting the Drawings Reviewed

    Getting the Drawings Reviewed

    Drawings are always submitted for approval before fabrication. When any changes are given by the structural engineer or the architect, after implementing the changes, the drawings must be submitted again for 2nd approval so that the structural engineer & the architect will review & approve the drawings. In some cases, the architect & the structural…