FAQ
What are construction documents?
Detailed plans, specs, and drawings contractors use to build accurately. Not the schematic sketches.
Direct answer
The set contractors use to build.
Construction documents are the detailed plans, specifications, and drawings that outline everything needed for construction. These documents ensure that contractors have all the information necessary to complete the project accurately.
That is the Encino / Los Angeles design-build practice. Construction documents come after schematic. They are not the first sketches.
City of Los Angeles reviews use this set. This is not legal advice.
What the set includes
Plans, specs, and drawings — not schematic sketches.
Detailed plans
Measured drawings the Encino team and contractors can build from. Dimensions, structure, and layout that schematic only sketched.
Specifications
Written notes on materials and methods so the job is not left to guesswork.
Drawings for the job
Sheets contractors use to complete the project accurately. Not the schematic sketches on the table.
Why it matters
The City and the job site both read this set.
Once this set is in review, a revision can move permits, consultants, and the calendar. That is normal. Approvals are never guaranteed.
121 keeps the Encino / Los Angeles conversation on what the drawings actually say before they go in.
How we work
Sketch first. Then document.
We talk through the Encino lot before schematic sketches start.
Conversation and brief
We talk through the work so the Encino team knows what you want before drawings start.
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Schematic, then documents
Schematic is the first look. Construction documents are the detailed set after.
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City review
We submit the set to the City of Los Angeles. The City decides. This is not legal advice.
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Build from the set
Contractors use these documents to complete the project accurately.
Honest scope
What 121 actually does, and what we do not.
We do
Detailed plans, specs, and drawings
Construction documents are the detailed plans, specifications, and drawings that outline everything needed for construction. These documents ensure that contractors have all the information necessary to complete the project accurately.
We do not
Schematic sketches, invented licenses, or legal advice
We do not treat schematic sketches as the permit set. We do not invent licenses, volumes, or years. We do not give legal advice. We do not guarantee City of Los Angeles approvals.
Talk through the drawing set.
If you have a project in Encino / Los Angeles, start with a conversation about the drawings contractors will build from.