A shop drawing is a detailed technical drawing showing exactly how a facade system will be fabricated and installed. Sovereign Facade Engineering Consultants Ltd produces fabrication-ready shop drawings for curtain wall, structural glazing, rainscreen, and composite panel systems, coordinated with the building structure and ready for direct use by fabricators.
Shop drawing production turns facade design intent into the detailed drawings a fabricator or installer needs to manufacture and install the system. Sovereign produces accurate, fully dimensioned drawings, coordinated with the building structure and adjacent trades. This is production-grade documentation, formatted for direct use rather than further interpretation.
What Shop Drawing Production Involves
General Arrangement
General arrangement and setting-out drawings establishing the facade grid, levels, and relationship to the primary structure.
Fabrication Drawings
Fabrication drawings with full dimensions, profiles, material specifications, and finishes for manufacture.
Assembly and Installation
Assembly and installation details covering connections, bracket and fixing design, sequence, and interfaces with adjacent construction.
Coordination
Coordination, checking the facade drawings against the structural and architectural packages to resolve clashes before fabrication.
Standards & Experience
Shop drawings at Sovereign follow the CWCT Standard for Systemised Building Envelopes and the relevant product standards including BS EN 13830 for curtain walling. Drawings reflect the tolerances, setting-out, and component requirements appropriate to the system and are coordinated with the project's structural and architectural information.
This service supports specialist facade contractors who need overflow or specialist drafting capacity, manufacturers who require fabrication documentation for a specific system, and main contractors who need a facade package detailed and coordinated ready for fabrication.
Our team has produced fabrication-ready shop drawings for projects ranging from Grade-A offices in Dublin to precision luxury retail facades across Asia, through our associated facade production company, including full unitised curtain wall packages with integrated fins.
Need facade shop drawings produced?
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Yes. Sovereign routinely works from architectural and engineering design drawings to produce fabrication-ready shop drawings, coordinating with the structural and architectural packages and flagging any clashes or missing information before fabrication.
Sovereign produces shop drawings for curtain wall (stick, unitised, and semi-unitised), structural glazing, rainscreen cladding, composite and insulated panel systems, and bespoke facade elements.