At Design Assist Partners P/L (DAP), we understand the critical importance of having comprehensive hydrant block plans in place to ensure effective fire emergency preparedness. As a leading provider of Fire Block Plans for commercial plumbers, we offer tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. With our expertise and commitment to excellence, we empower commercial plumbers and building managers to enhance building safety.

Why Hydrant Block Plans Matter

Hydrant block plans serve as essential guides for firefighters and emergency responders, providing crucial information about the location and operation of the fire system within a building or facility. These plans include details such as the location of hydrants, fire hose reels, main electrical switchboard and test pressures. Having accurate and up-to-date hydrant block plans can mean the difference between a swift response and a potentially disastrous outcome during a fire emergency

Our Comprehensive Solutions

At DAP, we offer comprehensive CAD services to create and update hydrant block plans tailored to our clients’ specific on-site requirements. Whether you have existing CAD files, mark-ups or just a photo of an existing block plan, we have the capability and expertise to recreate them accurately. Additionally, we can convert PDF drawings into CAD, ensuring that your hydrant block plans are easily editable for future updates.

Services for Commercial Plumbers

In addition to hydrant block plans, we also specialise in providing Plumbing As-Built Drawings and O&M Manuals tailored for hydraulic and civil services. Our team works closely with commercial plumbers to ensure their projects have been updated to current build conditions and meet industry standards. With our professional expertise and fast turnaround times, we help our clients streamline their workflow and get the job done efficiently.

Professional & Fast Turnaround

At DAP, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional client experiences. Our team is dedicated to providing prompt and reliable services, with same-day quoting and a typical turnaround time of 2-3 days for projects. We understand the urgency of fire safety preparedness and strive to exceed our clients’ expectations every step of the way.

In conclusion, hydrant block plans are vital components of effective fire emergency preparedness. With our expertise in CAD services and commitment to excellence, Design Assist Partners is your trusted partner in creating accurate, comprehensive and up to date hydrant block plans.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help enhance the safety of your building.

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In the world of plumbing, hydraulic systems are largely hidden away out of site in roof cavities, behind walls and in hard-to-reach places. That’s where As-Built Drawings come in. They’re like a detailed map of the plumbing system installed in a building. These drawings show exactly where pipes go, how they’re interconnected and where all the fixtures are located.

So, why are As-Built Drawings so important? Well, imagine a construction project without them—it would be like driving without a Google Maps! As-Built Drawings help maintenance and facility managers understand the installed plumbing system and where every pipe runs to.

Here’s why As-Built Drawings are so important:

1. Improved Visibility: As-Built Drawings capture the actual installed plumbing work in CAD and on paper. Rather than spend time in crawl spaces tracing a pipe or worse still, demolishing plaster or digging to find a pipe run, hydraulic as built drawings provide insight to the installed system.
2. Easy Maintenance: If there is a blockage or a system needs service, plumber as built drawings help a maintenance crew understand what has been installed and where it’s located. There’s less chance of mistakes and easier to fix any issue without causing too much disruption.
3. Communication: As-Built Drawings are like a common language for everyone involved in future upgrades to a project too. They assist architects, engineers, builders and plumbers understand existing conditions making planning easier.

Capturing accurate As-Built Drawings takes time and careful records of modifications during the construction phase must be kept. CAD Professionals like Design Assist Partners then make sure every detail is updated accurately, but once they’re done, these drawings become an invaluable resource for everyone involved in the building.

So, if you ever hear about As-Built Drawings in a plumbing project, remember—they’re the secret sauce that helps a building run smoothly.

Nice to see the Hyundai i30 is one of the most popular cars in Australia. Design Assist Partners have one too, complete with a slimline custom number plate ‘ASBILT’ and wrapped in a unique car graphics depicting some of our As Built, Shop Drawings and builder handover documentation services.

It was our first foray into a company car and graphics. We thought the vehicle colour selection was important, especially given we were only doing a partial wrap. We chose standard white paint for the vehicle as it better matched the wrap over the higher end, add-on cost, sparkle metalic white paint option. In the end we got a great result, more importantly, it’s been generating As Built and O&M Manual enquiries.

We’re seeing more clients required to deliver handover As Built Drawings in Revit Building Information Modeling (BIM) format. We can assist with this but advise clients that 3D CAD work is more complex and time consuming than typical As Built projects done in 2D AutoCAD.

We advise a greater allowance in tenders is required as we need time to update not only the drawings, but the 3D BIM model too. As a rule of thumb, you’ll probably need to double your regular AutoCAD (.dwg) format drawing budget for us to deliver your as built plans in BIM format.

Contract documents may also specify a Level Of Detail (LOD) that is required, i.e. LOD100, LOD 200, LOD 300, LOD 400 or LOD 500. The higher the nominated LOD number, the more involved and complex the CAD model is, which has a direct correlation to time and cost to implement changes.

To date we’ve only seen BIM revit model requirements on larger commercial projects, with the majority of As Builts still being done in AutoCAD .dwg format. If in doubt what to allow for in your tender, contact us or call on 0410 080 157 and we’ll help guide you.

As Builts – It’s What We Do!