Whether you are planning an extension, converting an existing room, renovating your home or making significant alterations to your property, accurate building plans provide an important starting point for your project.
Building plans communicate the existing arrangement of your property and show how you are proposing to change it. They can help you understand your project, communicate your ideas to builders and contractors and, where required, provide information for a planning application or other building work.
KR CAD Solutions provides professional building plan services for domestic building projects, using CAD software to produce clear and accurate drawings tailored to your requirements.
What are building plans?
Building plans are technical drawings that provide information about a building and its proposed design or alterations.
Depending on the nature of your project, your plans may show the layout of rooms, walls, doors, windows and other features, together with dimensions and other relevant information.
For an alteration project, you may require drawings showing both the existing building plans and the proposed arrangement.
The existing plans establish what is currently there, while the proposed plans show what you intend to change.
Having both can make it much easier for you and others involved in the project to understand the scope of the proposed work.
Building plans for extensions and alterations
If you are planning a house extension, accurate building plans can help you establish exactly how the proposed addition will affect your property.
Your plans can show the relationship between the existing building and the proposed extension, including the new floor area, room layouts, doors, windows and other relevant features.
The same approach can be used for other domestic projects such as loft conversions, garage conversions, internal alterations and renovations.
You may already have an idea of what you want your finished home to look like. Professional building plans allow that idea to be developed into a clear, measurable design that can be discussed and refined before construction begins.
Existing and proposed building plans
For many alteration projects, it is important to distinguish between the building as it currently exists and what you are proposing to change.
Existing building plans provide an accurate record of the current property.
Proposed building plans show the intended changes.
This distinction can be particularly important when preparing information for planning purposes, as it allows the proposed development to be considered in relation to the existing building.
KR CAD Solutions can provide site surveys and produce building plans based on the information gathered from your property.
If you do not have accurate plans for your existing property, a measured survey can provide the information required to create them.
Building plans for planning applications
Depending on your proposed work, you may need planning permission before construction can begin.
Where a planning application is required, drawings are normally an important part of explaining what you are proposing.
Planning application building plans can show the existing and proposed arrangements of your property and help the relevant planning authority understand the changes being requested.
The drawings required will depend on the nature of your project and the requirements of the relevant planning authority.
KR CAD Solutions can discuss your proposed work and provide appropriate building plans and architectural drawings for your project.
If you are unsure what drawings you need, you can establish the requirements before committing to the work.
Accurate CAD building plans
Creating building plans using CAD software provides a precise and flexible way to develop your project drawings.
CAD allows dimensions, layouts and other drawing information to be produced accurately and amended efficiently if your requirements change.
This can be particularly useful during the design process, as you may decide to alter a room layout, reposition a door or window, change the size of an extension or consider a different design approach.
Rather than starting again from scratch, your CAD drawings can be amended as the design develops.
KR CAD Solutions can produce professional CAD building plans using industry-standard Autodesk design software, including AutoCAD and Revit BIM.
Building plans for house extensions
A house extension needs to work with your existing property while providing the additional space you need.
Building plans can help you understand how the proposed extension will affect your current layout and how the new space will connect with the existing building.
Depending on the project, your drawings may show the proposed floor plan, external elevations and other relevant information.
You can then use these drawings to discuss the project with builders and other professionals and, where necessary, support the planning process.
For more visual projects, your building plans can also be developed alongside 3D CAD modelling and visualisation, allowing you to see the proposed design from different viewpoints.
Building plans for renovations and conversions
You do not need to be adding a new extension to benefit from professional building plans.
Significant internal alterations, renovations and conversions can also require accurate drawings.
For example, you might want to convert a garage into living accommodation, alter the layout of your ground floor or convert your loft into additional usable space.
In these situations, existing building plans can establish the current layout, while proposed plans can show how the space will be altered.
Having accurate drawings can help you consider the practical arrangement of the new space before work begins and communicate your requirements clearly to those carrying out the work.
From measurements to professional building plans
If you do not already have accurate drawings of your property, KR CAD Solutions can undertake a site survey to establish the information required.
Measurements and other relevant information gathered from the existing property can then be used to produce accurate drawings.
Once the existing building has been represented, your proposed alterations can be developed into professional building plans.
This provides a structured process from the existing property through to the proposed design.
It can also reduce the need to rely on old plans or assumptions about the dimensions and arrangement of your property.
Professional building plan services
Your building plans need to be clear and appropriate for their intended purpose.
KR CAD Solutions has more than 30 years of experience across engineering, building services and construction, alongside experience using CAD software including AutoCAD and Revit BIM.
This experience supports the production of accurate CAD drawings for domestic building and planning projects.
Whether you need plans for a relatively straightforward alteration or drawings for a larger extension or renovation, your requirements can be discussed before the drawing work begins.
You can provide any existing plans, sketches, measurements or other information you have available, allowing the appropriate approach to be established for your project.
When you may need building plans
Professional building plans can be useful if you are:
- Planning a house extension
- Considering a loft conversion
- Converting a garage or other existing space
- Renovating or significantly altering your property
- Changing the internal layout of your home
- Applying for planning permission
- Working with a builder or contractor
- Developing existing property drawings
- Unsure about the current dimensions or layout of your property
- Looking for accurate drawings of existing and proposed arrangements
The drawings you need will depend on your project and its circumstances.
If you are unsure where to start, you can explain what you are hoping to achieve and discuss your requirements with KR CAD Solutions.
Discuss your building plans
Good building plans give you a clear representation of what you have and what you are proposing to change.
Whether you are planning an extension, conversion, renovation or another domestic building project, accurate drawings can help you develop your ideas and communicate them to the people involved in taking the project forward.
KR CAD Solutions can provide building plans, CAD drawings, site surveys and architectural design services to support your domestic building project.
Contact KR CAD Solutions today to discuss your building plan requirements and find out how professional CAD and architectural drawing services can help you take your project from an initial idea towards a clearly defined design.