I have been thinking how I could produce a Schedule of Queries for another consultant, which I could print on the cover sheet of a set of the preliminary design drawings for a project. I would like to achieve this since I need to compile an 'aide memoir' of issues that need to be considered by an engineer, a services consultant or any other participating body, could be a supplier for that matter. Although the vast majority of my industry colleagues are not using BIM yet, the usefulness of this would manifest itself if they are using BIM or if they aren't as such a schedule, on printed on the cover sheet of a pdf set, would still work. The queries would be accumulated as we develop the design, for instance, in designing a decorative metal post shoe for a verandah recently, I needed to consider what guage steel to use and could have recorded the query, with others, as my design progressed. Having then reached a stage where I am happy with the preliminary design I need to forward the design to a Structural Engineer who needs to consider my queries.
I can rack my brains for each query, or find all my postits or the sheets of scribble around my desk and turn these into an email message or a comment in the cloud, or I could simply print a schedule on the cover sheet and point my consultant to the schedule which could direct him to the right sheet, date answer needed etc.
Can it be done though? I have thought about creating shared parameters for the project but I can't see how this would be done and concluded that the only way is to create a special annotation label for each view, containing the information for individual queries but these would clutter the drawings further.
Has anyone any better ideas?
Andrew Robertson
Chartered Architect
Robertson Partnership
Truro. UK
