Ed Jaworski

Before we look at Ed Jaworksi's drawings, let's first understand what he does. Eagle Iron puts up steel buildings. Architects designs the buildings. Engineers design the steel structure. Steel detailers do the drawing for the components, and steel mills fabricate the steel components. Eagle Iron locates a crane on the job site, that takes the steel components off a truck and swings them over the building where iron workers bolt the various parts together. It's like Tinker Toys, but this is for real. Ed's job is to manage the project, and he uses PowerCADD to create drawings for the crane location at the job site and also to design and order various auxiliary steel components that he needs to put up the building. As you will see, many of these drawings are very simple drawings, and Ed was a bit intimidated by offering his drawings for display here in the Drawing Room, but let's remember that Ed is a project manager, not a draftsman, engineer or architect. And he's a novice at using a computer to draw. Drawings are only a small part of what he does, and he uses PowerCADD to knock out a drawing for his own needs.

This drawing is a crane layout chart for Macy's in Mission Viejo, CA. I do these layouts twice as fast as my counterpart using AutoCAD. I like the analogy "Using the Mac with PowerCADD is like driving an automatic compared to the other brand is like a stickshift, only worse! I also do a lot of steel detailing and all project layout and dimensioning required in steel erection. Everyone here wants PowerCADD, but they have PC's. Too bad for them. Ed Jaworski

Here's the crane and the elevations of the floor levels.

The crane base

The location of the crane on the job site.

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