Discover how to efficiently manage the detailing of multiple flooring types and costs within an architectural project schedule. Gain insights on assigning different flooring materials to different areas, calculating costs, and maintaining consistency in format.
Key Insights
- The article presents a methodical approach to assigning different flooring types to specific areas within an architectural project, such as offices, hallways, stairs, restrooms, and open office areas. Each flooring type is assigned a unique identifier (like CP-1, CP-2 for carpets, R-1 for resilient flooring, T-2 for tile, and LVT-1 for Luxury Vinyl Tile).
- The cost per square foot is calculated for each flooring type to determine the total material cost. This is then multiplied by the area assigned for each flooring type, thereby providing a comprehensive view of the total flooring cost for the project.
- Maintaining consistency in formatting and presentation is strongly emphasized. The article discusses the importance of using a consistent text style and line width across all project schedules, ensuring a professional and uniform appearance in the final project documentation.
We'll continue on here and add more information to our schedule. So our offices are all going to have the same carpet. We will put in CP-1 for that carpet.
And I'm just going to go ahead and add this to our offices. And this isn't as handy as the door schedule was, to where we can just type one in and it kind of populates everywhere else. But there's not too many rooms, so it shouldn't be too bad for us to add that in.
So the hallway will have a different carpet. This will be CP-2, and it'll be the same price as well. The stairs, we're going to have a resilient flooring covering the stairs.
We'll call it R-1, and that's going to be a little cheaper, so $4 a foot. And for the men's and women's room, we will have Tile, and that'll be T-2. And we'll add that cost in at $12.
The break room will be a LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tile), which is like a plank vinyl tile. So LVT-1, and then we'll go ahead and give that a cost for $10 a foot. Okay, and then the open office area will be another type of carpet.
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We'll call that CP-3, and that's going to be that same $8 budget that we have for that. Stairs are going to have the same flooring throughout, so we'll just kind of repeat those in. And then we just have to go through and finalize everything that's on the second floor.
So the hallway will be CP-2, and then all the offices will be CP-1. And so, just going through and adding the rest of the flooring in based on how we did it on the first floor. So men's room and women's room were T-2, and then the conference rooms are going to be CP-2, and then the open office was CP-3, and then R-1 for the stair.
Now the cost, I need to enter. We got a whole bunch of eights coming through here until we get to the Tile. And then the Tile cost was $12 and 4 for the last one.
So these are the costs. I'll go ahead and leave this up here for a second so you can double-check that you have everything. It's not super critical.
The main concept is being able to create this calculated value here and then have the totals show up on the bottom as we've indicated in the schedule. The last thing we need to do before we throw this on a sheet and finalize the lesson is we want to always be consistent with our formatting. So my room schedule should have the same text that we've been using on all of our other schedules.
So 3 16ths of an inch and bold, just like we did with the other ones. And then I'm pretty sure I changed the appearance settings, but it never hurts to double-check. We want to make sure that's set to wide lines as well.
And we are now ready to put this on a sheet. So I'll go to my A2.1 again and we'll put that room schedule on the sheet. And we might have to do a little bit of adjusting to get all this to fit.
It looks like there's a bit of space at the top. So I'll select those three and nudge them up. And then we can get our schedule in to fit.
You can see we're doubling up on a few rows, which will help as well. And then I'll adjust the spacing for better visibility. And then I'll try to line it up on one side so that it looks nicer.
Now we have our room schedule that shows our room name, floor finish, the area of the rooms, the material cost per square foot, and then also the total material cost by multiplying the area times the material cost per square foot, giving us that value. So next thing we want to do here is just make sure we have the information inputted correctly. And so we're going to want to go ahead and name the sheet.
We've got the class name and we've got our name here listed. And so we'll want to go ahead and add in some of this information. So instead of just calling it an unnamed sheet, we will want to call it floor plans, schedules, and legends.
And that gives us the name for the sheet. And that puts it together. And this is what we will submit for our midterm.
