Detail Library – New Details April 2024
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New Details

This month we are looking to the outside and focusing on external works, specifically retaining wall details, cappings and copings for freestanding walls. This set consists of:

  • Solid brickwork garden wall with coping, capping and creasing tile details
  • Robust solid brickwork wall with engineering brick coping, capping and creasing tiles
  • Solid brickwork garden wall with reconstituted stone coping detail
  • Cavity wall parapet insulation and cavity tray options
  • Sloped coping detail with coping clips detail
  • Solid brickwork retaining wall details
  • Garden terracing for steep site with multiple retaining walls details
  • Garden solid brick wall steps to terraced garden – stone coping detail
  • Garden solid brick wall steps to terraced garden – brick on edge detail

Stay tuned to the website as we continue to develop new details every month.

DL330 Robust solid brickwork garden wall details
DL330 Robust solid brickwork garden wall details 3D
DL335 Garden terracing retaining wall details 3D
DL335 Garden terracing retaining wall details
DL336 Garden solid brick wall steps - stone coping detail
DL336 Garden solid brick wall steps - stone coping detail 3D

Latest Article

Our latest article this month continues our exploration into lighting design. We look at how to draw a reflected ceiling plan. The guide includes the basic principles of lighting layout, how to draw the information on plan and much more. 

05 Reflected Ceiling Plan
In addition, we have put together a special resource pack that includes the guide and all our lighting symbols in one handy download.

If you are interested in joining our community, head over to the Detail Library to learn more about our platform and get yourself signed up.

The Detail Library provides hundreds of construction details for you to download and use adjust for your own projects. The details are available in 2D Revit, CAD dwg, and 3D SketchUp. You can start downloading straight away and build your own detail reference library. Not like other BIM libraries, the Detail Library contains fully resolved details rather than individual components.

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