11th July 2013, 02:43 PM
I've no problem with multi-sheet drawings - sadly thats not how it ever seems to work out, people just tend to restrict how much they record to what fits on the board. My main objections are section drawings that just don't record enough section (if you've got two features running under a trench edge next to each other why not draw both on one drawing using a common datum) and tunnel-vision plans where people just plan e.g. the little bit of ditch they've personally dug whilst completely ingnoring everything else around them (like maybe the undug bits of ditch to either side). A3 boards are fine for some things but inappropriate for others. On the cursus I've been playing withover the last few years the planning would have been comedic on A3s, they'd have spent longer walking to and from the hut for a new bit of pervi every 2 minutes than actually planning - plus of course the features were a bit big, a single line for one side of a ditch on a A3 sheet really isn't very satisfying if you've got to go looking for the matching sheet for the other side.
Can't recall many cases of back-injury due to A1 board, thats kinda down to common sense on the part of the user, having your teeth knocked out in a high wind seems to be commoner, but that's just a result of people always taking out ones that are too light (have never had that problem with 1/2" marine ply ones, plus they're stable enough to set up on a bucket to save some bending) - and A1s are handy cover in big hailstorms. The old Northants unit had one back in the 80s that had some small battons screwed to the back and doubled as a wheelbarrow-lid to keep the paperwork dry in wet weather and a planning board in dry....ok, maybe a disturbing attack of planning-board nostalgia there....
Can't recall many cases of back-injury due to A1 board, thats kinda down to common sense on the part of the user, having your teeth knocked out in a high wind seems to be commoner, but that's just a result of people always taking out ones that are too light (have never had that problem with 1/2" marine ply ones, plus they're stable enough to set up on a bucket to save some bending) - and A1s are handy cover in big hailstorms. The old Northants unit had one back in the 80s that had some small battons screwed to the back and doubled as a wheelbarrow-lid to keep the paperwork dry in wet weather and a planning board in dry....ok, maybe a disturbing attack of planning-board nostalgia there....