Architectural Drafting Services · Kansas
Drafting Buddies produces residential and commercial architectural drawings - floor plans, elevations, sections, permit sets and construction documents - for architects, builders, contractors and homeowners across Kansas. Because Kansas is a home-rule state with no single statewide building code, every drawing set we produce is checked against the specific IBC/IRC edition and local amendments your city or county has adopted, so it moves through plan review instead of bouncing back with corrections.
In-house drafters
Projects completed nationwide
Standard turnaround
Floor Plan - KS-01
Kansas
Permit Set
1/4" Scale
Kansas overview
From an early hand sketch through a stamped-ready construction document set, one Kansas project team covers floor plans, elevations, and sections, plus permit sets and construction documents for architects, builders, contractors, and homeowners.
Kansas is one of the few states with no mandatory statewide building code. Cities and counties each adopt their own edition of the IBC and IRC, on their own timeline, with their own amendments. A drawing set drafted to generic assumptions can pass in one Kansas jurisdiction and get flagged in the next one over. We draft against the code your specific project address is actually under.
Sub-Services
From an early hand sketch through a stamped-ready construction document set, our drafting team covers the full workflow a Kansas project needs.
We draft custom homes, additions, ADUs and renovation plans with accurate floor plans, elevations and construction detail. Drawings are set to the setback, height and zoning requirements your specific Kansas city or county enforces, so the plan your client approves is the one that clears plan review without a redesign. See our residential drafting service.
We draft office buildings, retail spaces, restaurants, multifamily and mixed-use projects with layouts built around occupancy classification, egress and tenant requirements. Drawings support tenant improvement, new construction and renovation scopes, formatted to the submittal standards of your Kansas project's building department. See our commercial drafting service.
We produce accurate, dimensioned floor plans for new construction, renovations and existing buildings, from a rough sketch, PDF or field measurement. Floor plans are drafted to scale with door and window schedules, room labels and wall types, ready to move directly into a full construction document set.
We draft exterior and interior elevations plus building and wall sections that show height, roof pitch, material callouts and structural relationships. These drawings give contractors and reviewers the vertical information a floor plan alone can't convey, and are formatted to match your Kansas jurisdiction's submittal requirements.
We assemble complete permit and construction document sets - cover sheets, floor plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules - formatted for submittal to your project's specific Kansas building department. We confirm the adopted code edition and local amendments before finalizing the set, reducing plan-review comment cycles.
We produce accurate as-built drawings from field measurements, photos or old drawing sets, documenting existing floor plans, elevations and site conditions. These serve as the baseline for renovation, addition or historic-property work on Kansas buildings where no reliable current drawing set exists.
We draft kitchen and bathroom remodels, room additions, basement finishes and whole-home renovations, integrating new work cleanly with existing structure. Drawings clearly distinguish new construction from existing conditions, which speeds up review by Kansas building departments familiar with renovation permit requirements.
We build native Revit models and BIM-based drawing sets alongside traditional 2D drafting, giving your Kansas project a coordinated, reusable digital model. This supports 3D visualization, clash checking against structural or MEP work, and faster turnaround on future revisions compared to flat 2D files alone.
We convert hand sketches, scanned PDFs, faded blueprints and legacy paper drawings into clean, dimensionally accurate CAD or Revit files. This is the starting point for Kansas renovation, permit and as-built projects where the only existing record is an old or non-digital drawing.
Industries We Serve
Our drafters have worked across residential, commercial and institutional project types, bringing sector-specific drafting conventions to every Kansas engagement.
Custom homes, additions, ADUs, and renovation plans.
Offices, retail spaces, restaurants, and mixed-use projects.
Multifamily layouts built around occupancy and egress.
Restaurants and hospitality spaces for tenant and new-build scopes.
Healthcare facilities drafted to local submittal standards.
Schools and institutional buildings.
Industrial and warehouse buildings.
Civic and municipal buildings.
Why Drafting Buddies
Because Kansas has no single statewide code, we verify the exact IBC/IRC edition and local amendments your city or county has adopted before finalizing drawings - not after review comments come back.
A dedicated bench of AutoCAD and Revit drafters means we can scale up on tight permit or bid deadlines without handing your project to a subcontractor.
We've drafted residential, commercial and institutional projects across the US, bringing that cross-sector experience to every Kansas engagement.
Whether your project needs flat 2D CAD drawings or a coordinated Revit model, the same team delivers both without handing your files to a third party.
Most standard drafting packages are scoped, drawn and QC’d within 48 hours, with expedited paths available for time-sensitive submittals.
You work with a single point of contact throughout the project, with revision rounds built into every engagement - no black-box handoffs.
Software We Use
The same in-house team delivers flat 2D CAD and coordinated Revit models, without handing files to a third party.
2D Drafting
Floor plans, elevations, and permit sets
BIM
Architectural BIM and construction documentation
BIM
Alternative BIM authoring on request
Concept / 3D
Massing studies and 3D visualization
Residential
Home design and residential plan sets
Markup
Redline review and submittal markups
Coordination
Clash detection and model coordination
Presentation
Presentation graphics and sheet markup
Kansas Code Landscape
Kansas is one of the few states with no mandatory statewide building code. Cities and counties each adopt their own edition of the International Building Code and International Residential Code, on their own timeline, with their own amendments. A drawing set drafted to generic assumptions can pass in one Kansas jurisdiction and get flagged in the next one over. We draft against the code your specific project address is actually under.
Kansas operates under home rule - the IBC and IRC only apply where a city or county council has formally adopted them by ordinance.
Major Kansas cities including Wichita, Overland Park and Kansas City currently enforce 2018-cycle IBC/IRC with local amendments; adoption years vary by jurisdiction.
The only code mandatory statewide is the Kansas Fire Prevention Code, enforced by the State Fire Marshal; local jurisdictions may make it more stringent, not less.
Sheet size, scale, sheet index and digital-file requirements for permit submittal differ by Kansas building department, so we confirm the local checklist before final delivery.
Structural design values referenced on architectural drawings shift across the state, so drawings reflect the loads applicable at your project's specific location.
Where We Work
We deliver drawing sets remotely to project teams anywhere in the state - these are among the Kansas cities we work in most. See also our drafting services in Kansas.
Wichita
KS
Overland Park
KS
Kansas City
KS
Topeka
KS
Olathe
KS
Lawrence
KS
Manhattan
KS
Salina
KS
Shawnee
KS
Lenexa
KS
Hutchinson
KS
Leawood
KS
Client Feedback
“Our Overland Park permit set came back with zero comments on the first submittal - they clearly knew the local checklist.”
General Contractor
Overland Park, KS
“They converted a 30-year-old blueprint into a clean CAD file we could actually build a renovation from.”
Homeowner
Wichita, KS
“48-hour turnaround on the floor plan let us get contractor pricing before the weekend.”
Property Developer
Kansas City, KS
Yes. We deliver residential and commercial drawing sets remotely to architects, builders, contractors, and homeowners anywhere in the state, including Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, Topeka, Olathe, Lawrence, Manhattan, Salina, Shawnee, Lenexa, Hutchinson, and Leawood.
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Send us your sketch, existing drawings or scope and we'll come back with a fixed quote and turnaround time - checked against the code and submittal checklist your Kansas project is actually under. You can also contact our team directly.