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Al Whitley/2 min read

Reviewing Civil Engineering Demolition Plan: Keynotes, Legends, and Property Lines

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This tutorial walks through reviewing civil engineering demolition plan: keynotes, legends, and property lines, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Let's begin reviewing the first of our civil engineering drawings, the demolition plan. You can see we have the site right here. The property lines are in purple along the edge.

There's a keynote over here that shows what's being demolished. So there are buildings that are being demolished, vehicular concrete, and pedestrian paving. One thing that's being required more and more in projects is that there would be temporary silt fencing, which keeps any debris from the construction site contained within the site itself.

So let's zoom into this area and read some of the demolition notes. Again, here are the legends for what's to be removed: concrete-covered walk, vehicular concrete, and buildings.

And then there are notes like remove existing brick pavers, remove curb, remove exterior piping, remove exterior fencing, and so on. So as we pan around, you'll see the property lines, and you'll see the property line itself, and then right next to it, the angle in the direction of the property line. In our next video, we'll be talking about metes and bounds, which are how civil engineers actually create their property lines.

So again, the information to be removed, keynotes, property lines, and also spot elevations. So you can see that this area is 5.11 feet above sea level. It's 4.19 feet above sea level right there.

So they're just calling out the existing site spot elevations. The actual construction site includes what is in yellow, and so the contractors were required to get special permits to close off the streets so they can have access to more than just the existing property. It's an informative drawing.

It's very informative. Again, we have property lines. We have indications of buildings, vehicular concrete, pedestrian paving to be removed.

We have spot elevations. We're showing the extents of the construction area. And there's also a note down here that says this will be the entrance to the construction site.

So please feel free to spend some more time with this drawing and enjoy. I'll see you in our next video.