Build the confidence to look at a set of construction drawings and understand what you’re seeing, where to find the information you need, and how it connects to the work in the field. Using real commercial plans and nearly 20 years of industry experience, I’ll help you develop the blueprint-reading instincts construction professionals use every day—so you can ask better questions, make better decisions, contribute with confidence, and become more valuable to your team.

This mini course will help you navigate the project manual with confidence, understand CSI divisions, and use the specs to answer real project questions, so you can become a more capable and confident construction professional. Learn how construction specifications are organized, how they work with the drawings, and how to quickly find the information you need.

I created this course to help you get more comfortable reading structural drawings and understanding what you’re actually looking at. We’ll walk through real plans, break down foundations and structural components, connect plans to details, and work through basic takeoffs. My goal is to help you stop just looking at drawings and start understanding how the building actually comes together.