What Should Be Detailed - Millwork and Roofing

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But most of the country these days is worried about flooding, so when we talk about details, we talk about the communication systems for the civil drawings, what we're really focused on is partly those very specific sets of issues so that contractors know what to build and know what to price and so that's clearly part of the discussion, but the other thing that's happening with the civil drawings is that there's a very important conversation happening between the civil engineers and the architect presumably to the code officials so that there's a discussion and an understanding and eventually an agreement that the amount of water that's being pushed into an infrastructure system is okay, the way, the manner that that's being pushed to the infrastructure is okay, or conversely, the way that it's being gathered and sent to the water table on site in situ is functional and likely to work and not sent into the infrastructural system. That's a conversation that code officials really want to have. Similar to when we were talking about stairwells, or something.

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