Master the complex task of maintaining an accurate schedule of parking spaces within a construction project. Learn how to use the view tab, schedules, quantities, sorting and grouping, and formatting for a detailed, real-time count of parking spaces across multiple buildings.
Key Insights
- The article shares a detailed process of using construction project management software to keep a real-time count of parking spaces in a project. This includes using view tabs, schedules, quantities, sorting and grouping, and formatting settings.
- A key step in the process is using the sorting and grouping function to organize types of parking spaces. The author also emphasizes turning calculations on in the formatting tab to see a total count of the parking spaces.
- By leveraging the model element as part of the project, it is possible to keep a running total of parking spaces. This not only boosts efficiency but also ensures accuracy in large-scale projects with multiple buildings and parking types.
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When it comes to making the schedule, there's a few things that are going to be important. One of them is going to be the type name, and you'll see what we do to make sure that we get all of the accessible stalls counted against accessible stalls and not against the standard stalls. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my view tab, schedules, schedule slash quantities, and I'm going to pick parking so we can do a parking schedule, and we're going to pick type and count.
Those will be the two fields that we use, and then let's go to sorting and grouping, and what we can do is we can sort by type, and that way it'll put the types in order here. So I'm going to go ahead and check the grand totals here so that we can see the the amount, the total count that we have, and we can just go ahead and say title and totals for that, and let's hit okay, and check out our schedule. So this is pretty crazy because it's actually showing all, you know, 300 or so types of parking that we have, which we definitely don't need to show that much.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to sorting grouping here, and I'm going to uncheck where it says itemize every instance, and then hit okay. Now you can see that it shows all of our different parking stalls, and it actually will give us our total. If I were to go back to our sorting and grouping here, you can see we did set it to do grand totals, but it's not actually totaling the count.
If I go to formatting and click on count here, it says no calculation, so we have to change that from no calculation to calculate totals if we want to see it totaled. At the bottom here, so I'll hit okay, and we have a total of 308 spaces. So that seems like a lot, but not a big deal, right? We can go in and we can actually break this down a little bit further.
So there's about four of these nine by 18 that actually belong in this accessible stall category, and then we also want to break it down by building. We have two different buildings here that we want to distinguish, and we can do a workaround. This is one I like to do all the time, and essentially what we're going to do is we're going to take over another parameter.
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If I select all of my parking stalls like I've done here, and I just want to make sure I'm only on parking, so I'll go to filter and I'll uncheck everything but parking here, and I've got comments, and I can use comments as my factor. If I go in here, this will be my delineator, right? If I go in here, I can then tell it that I want this one to be building, and this one's going to be 1764, and then I can select all the parking stalls on this side, and see what I'm doing here? Got a little sloppy with my window because I'm grabbing these guys here too, so I want to tighten that up a bit. Make sure I'm only getting the parking on this side, so I'll filter, check none, and just pick parking, and then we'll call this one building 1701.
Now when I go back to my parking schedule, what I can do is I can go to fields, and I can add comments to this. It's not one that we're going to show or anything, but I could adjust my sorting and grouping, so I can change this one to type, and then I can sort by comments here with a header, and that'll show me the building type on the top, and then I can turn on a footer, and I can tell it to do title and totals only here, and then I can do a blank line, which will just give me a space, which makes it look a little graphically better. Then if I go to my formatting tab, I can actually turn off comments by making it a hidden field, and when I hit okay, I'll have a schedule that breaks it down by building, still giving me my overall total, and that's how we could leverage the parking spaces into this schedule, and now this is something we could definitely put on our sheets, or not, and it's definitely something we can use as a working document, because now if I go in, if I were to delete a number of spaces, go back to the parking schedule, my parking count's always going to be updated, so it's the advantage of having the model element as part of our project, and that allows us to then be able to keep a running total of our parking spaces, so those of you who have had the luck and the fortune of being able to count parking spaces, you know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to having a running total and how nice that actually is.
Now that we have the site plan all wrapped up, our next set of videos, we're going to go ahead and start modeling our new building.
