For anyone curious what the original architectural plan was you can submit an open records request here and request: “Architectural plans submitted december 2018 for 1825 Monetary Lane, Suite 104, Carrollton Tx 75006. Application 18-9139”
Althought I suppose they aren’t really relevant since a different approach has been chosen. It’s 69 pages detailing construction, hvac, ventilation, electrical, compressed air. Personally I think it’s interesting to look at blueprints, although I’m no engineer and can’t really follow the electrical diagrams
They are not just architectural, its the full set Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing & Fire Protection. Often the SOW is in the drawings itself. Which consists of sequence of operations, detail views, schedules & others. 69 pages is pretty small by drawing standpoint. It is imperative that once done, we have a set of “As-builts”. This gives us the direct locations of items & how they were built. As engineers don’t always talk to each other or things cant go where they want it to go.
I might even suggest walking through the “as-builts” with the GC (or individual contractors if no GC) to make sure they are accurate! My office’s original as-built plans had a couple floor wiring boxes that weren’t even close!
In a previous career I used to do layout for installation of bank drive-thru’s and pneumatic tube systems. Ductwork was meticulously planned and defined on the prints and in most cases could be avoided since their contract was more than tenfold ours. But mechanical contractors sometimes have different ideas than architects on how to execute.
One job in a credit union early on in a “tellerless lobby” deployment (TL;DR version: we installed all the pneumatic tube stations. ALL. OF. THEM.) demanded that the ac ducts in the teller work area be done in a fashion that apparently didn’t make sense to the mechanical contractor. The mechanical contractor was onside first and proceeded to run them right through the middle of the area where we were going to locate a dozen suspended tube stations and their associated tubes going to stations in the lobby for customers and to stations at banker’s desks. Our installer showed up and promptly complained to the GC who was unsympathetic despite our approved plans. After tracing out the holes he intended to cut for the tubes to penetrate the ductwork then asking what the best sealant was the GC bothered to check the plans then grudgingly informed the mechanical contractor to either research and provide that best sealant and guarantee the modification as-is … or re-work the ductwork as actually specified on the plans. The mechanical contractor opted to re-work the ductwork.
Mechanical space is almost always the first space to get taken away. I know of many jobs this way, even new buildings. We have a machine in a new building in Plano, you can not get around to the back side of the machine that is required to have access. They literally built a cinderblock wall within an inch of the side of the machine. This goes around our published minimum requirements, should there have to be work on that side, even while under warranty, the customer will be charged for the extra effort/ cost involved. Many of the “New” Uptown buildings do not have ways around the equipment to get basic maintenance done.
I had one years ago that they put the maintenance end on a wall that shares a stairwell. They had a hatch in the stairwell to get to the machine & do that maintenance.
About 15 years ago, I was on a job, I had to climb a ladder by the elevator, climb on top of duct work 3 ft tall x about 5 ft wide. Then over an 8” fire standpipe between the deck & pipe just to get to one measly VAV box. I had to replace this controller because someone had swapped the hi & low points on the Pitot tubes.
There were some I could not (would not) even get to, someone else elected to climb atop of smaller 10”x”10 duct work to get to about 18ft in the air.
I’m the head of phase 1 construction. The minutes are correct, but so are the drawings. We will be building what is in that plan, we just have to break it into many phases instead of one big project.
I’ll be posting an updated expansion status today when I get status from the rest of the team. The status will include volunteer ops, contracted tasks and a list of who will be moving first.
So basically, we will get what you see in those drawings it’s just going to take longer and cost more.
