Drawing Revisions by Project or by Sheet 2

[CardsFan1]

I have been reading some older posts on here. I wanted to see what the new consensus is.
I am old school and I guess my way of tracking revisions is by sheet.

As it is explained to me:
By sheet means that only the sheet that is revised gets a raised rev level. Some guys in the office don't like that because there could be (and probably will be) multiple sheets with Rev. 1, but different revision dates. I say that is fine. That is what I expect to see.

By Project - means that a sheet can be raised to Rev 1. Then at a later date, a different sheet gets revised. It will be raised to Rev 2, because that is the second rev to the set. To me, that seems more confusing. I would be looking for Rev 1 of that sheet to see what changed.

What are other folks doing?

 

[dold]

Per project always. Revision control through the architect (or whoever the client is). Some are very strict. Notify the architect that something needs to be revised > architect generates revision number/date/description > this gets distributed to all consultants > only the sheets that change are re-issued (this depends on the client). I.e., we would never issue a set of drawings where there are two 'revision 1' with different dates. That would be a nightmare. And yes, revit has a pretty solid functionality for revision control. Also we do similar where alphabetical revisions are preconstruction, revision zero is IFC, numerical revisions are for anything after IFC.

To pham's point, that's what some of the big GCs I've worked with do as well. I think they had a master revit file (maybe navisworks) and ipads + procore. They ran a really tight ship. We'd get RFIs about clashes with a 1" water line needed to pass through some random beam web stiffener... I suppose the steel detailer was also able to link in their master model into GC's revit model because our LOD would never include modeling stiffeners, etc. It was very impressive. By the time I left that firm/project we were sneaking up on RFI #900+.
@dik, it's all wireless/cloud based. No more USB sticks. I'm not even sure ipads have usb ports anymore..?

 

[canwesteng]

Always done by sheet. A drawing list is (well, should be) issued with the construction package and re-issued with each drawing revision so you always know the latest revision of any one drawing.

 

[dik]

Thanks... dold. It's the dinosaur in me coming out.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[Enable]

As a contractor I beg of you all to revise by project....if I have to get down and kneel at the alter that is ACI / CSA A23.3 / S16 / AISC / IBC / IRC whatever your code is, I will!

 

[JLNJ]

Some of the architects I've worked with revise by Addendum or Bulletin by sheet. Instead of Rev 1,2,3 etc it was Ad-1, Ad-2 or Bn-1, Bn-2 etc. Tough to fit in a revision triangle (and probably not Revit friendly) but a good way to track addendums. I grant that it gets complicated if you have the same drawing issued for more than one contract.

 

[skeletron]

Revise by project for me but revisions are clouded/triangle'd so if a page is not affected, you'll only see the Rev in the issue table and the sheet revision in the titleblock. This works for my scope of work and size of projects. It also allows me to authenticate complete packages digitally. I can revision by sheet on more extensive projects or with experienced builders.