Built environment users

• Technical Audiences include:

  • architects
  • construction trades
  • architectural technicians
  • landscape architects
  • building surveyor
  • quantity surveyors
  • interior designer
  • town planners
  • clients
  • prospective buyers
  • designers
• Architects are responsible for producing drawings of buildings that adhere to planning and building regulations and inform/ instruct construction
• Architects are regularly involved in producing orthographic drawings using 2D CAD software
• Construction trades include:

  • builders
  • plumbers
  • electricians
  • brick layers
  • joiners
  • roofers
  • landscaping gardeners
• Landscape architects create the landscape around us. They plan, design and manage open spaces including both natural and built environments.
• A building surveyor measures sites and buildings to give and accurate representation of existing sites and structures.
• Quantity Surveyors use highly detailed Architect’s drawings to add up how much a construction project will cost.
• Quantity Surveyors interpret Architect’s and Engineer’s drawings (plans, sections and elevations at varying scales from 1:200 to 1:5) to price the cost of construction and produce Bills of Quantities based upon the quantity of different features of the building
• Once a construction job has been “costed”, a quantity surveyor will advise on how costs can be saved. Often, changes to finishes (flooring, tiling, kitchen and bathrooms), glazing and roofing is a way to save money.
• Town Planners require all building and landscape drawings and specifications.
• Clients assigns a task to be completed by an architect, designer etc, which they will use to refer to when they are planning the project.
• The designer will use a variety of drawings & plans to pitch their own ideas back to the client to accomplish the task.
• Designers should be particularly aware the size of groups that will inhabit buildings: workforce, families, individuals; the age of the users and users that have particular needs.
• Prospective Buyers often use site plans & floor plans. Users will be particularly interested in accessibility, roads, paths, lifts,

  stairs, width of doorways, corridors.
• Prospective Buyers will be also be interested in the location of

  different rooms, features and the appearance or potential appearance of the interior & exterior.
• Project Stages are:

  • Planning
  • Production
• The Planning Stage is the creation of Gantt charts (usually by an architect) to plan out the stage of construction
• The Production Stage makes detailed construction information (drawing and schedules) in order to assemble a building
• Interior Designers make a space look aesthetic using:

  • colour schemes
  • tiling
  • wall paper
  • paintwork
  • soft furnishings
  • sometimes lighting