No. Kansas is a home-rule state - there is no mandatory statewide building code. Each city and county adopts and amends its own edition of the IBC and IRC, so a sub-contractor submitting shop drawings in Wichita and Overland Park may be working against two different code editions and two different sets of local amendments and design-load values.
Shop Drawing Services · Kansas
Shop drawings cleared for fabrication, built for Kansas jobsites.
From Wichita's aerospace lines to the De Soto battery-and-data-center corridor, Drafting Buddies produces structural, MEP, architectural, and fabrication-ready shop drawings for contractors, fabricators, and engineers working anywhere in Kansas.
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Structural Steel → Fabricator
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MEP Coordination → GC Review
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Architectural → Permit Set
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Rebar Detailing → Pour Schedule
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BIM Clash Check → Coordination
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- Founded in Austin, TX
- 2014
- States Served
- 50
- BBB Rating
- A+
- Rush Turnaround
- 48-72h
Founded in Austin, TX
States Served
BBB Rating
Rush Turnaround
Who We Are
Drafting Buddies, built for how Kansas actually builds.
Drafting Buddies LLC is a CAD drafting, BIM modeling, and shop drawing company founded in Austin, Texas in 2014, holding an A+ BBB rating and serving fabricators, general contractors, and structural engineers across all 50 U.S. states. In Kansas, that means producing shop drawing services Kansas fabricators can hand straight to the shop floor - structural steel shop drawings, MEP shop drawings, architectural shop drawing services, and CAD conversion services delivered in the exact format your jurisdiction and your fabricator require.
Kansas is a home-rule state: there is no single statewide building code. Wichita-Sedgwick County, Overland Park, Kansas City KS, Topeka, Olathe, and dozens of smaller jurisdictions each adopt, amend, and enforce their own edition of the IBC, IRC, and NEC. That patchwork is exactly why our shop drawing production starts with confirming the adopted code edition, local amendments, and ASCE 7 design-load values for your project's specific address - not a generic statewide assumption - before a single line is detailed. Whether you need steel detailing Kansas, MEP fabrication drawings, or Revit shop drawings for a De Soto data center build, the drawings we deliver are built to match the AHJ that will actually review them.
- Founded in Austin, Texas
- 2014
- Better Business Bureau rating
- A+
- U.S. states served
- 50
- Shop drawing sub-services
- 12
Founded in Austin, Texas
Better Business Bureau rating
U.S. states served
Shop drawing sub-services
Flight Line Manifest
Twelve shop drawing sub-services, cleared for fabrication.
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Structural Steel Shop Drawings Kansas
Complete structural steel shop drawings and steel erection drawings for Kansas fabricators and steel detailing companies, covering beams, columns, connections, and miscellaneous steel. We produce steel connection drawings, structural steel fabrication drawings, and erection sequences from IFC-level engineering sets, coordinated to AISC standards and matched to Tekla, SDS/2, or AutoCAD outputs your shop already runs, so pieces arrive on-site ready to erect without RFIs slowing down the schedule.
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MEP Shop Drawings Kansas
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing shop drawings built for coordination, not just compliance. Our MEP shop drawing services Kansas contractors rely on cover ductwork shop drawings, piping and pipe spool drawings, electrical fabrication drawings, and MEP coordination drawings, clash-checked in Navisworks so ceiling cavities, chases, and equipment rooms are resolved before installation crews mobilize on-site.
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Architectural Shop Drawings Kansas
Architectural shop drawing services covering doors, windows, storefronts, interior partitions, and ceiling systems, produced to match the specific IBC/IRC edition and local amendments adopted by your Kansas jurisdiction. We deliver architectural fabrication drawings that carry through from design intent to submittal-ready sheets, keeping architects, GCs, and fabricators reading from the same set.
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Rebar & Concrete Reinforcement Drawings Kansas
Rebar shop drawings, bar bending schedules, and concrete reinforcement drawings for footings, slabs, walls, and columns. Our rebar detailing services produce placement drawings and reinforcement detailing packages coordinated with ACI 318 requirements and the design loads specific to your Kansas county, reducing field conflicts on pour day.
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BIM & Revit Coordination Drawings Kansas
Revit shop drawings and BIM coordination services spanning LOD 200-400, built for multidisciplinary clash detection across structural, MEP, and architectural models. We generate BIM fabrication drawings and Revit MEP shop drawings from coordinated federated models, exporting to Navisworks for a documented clash-resolution pass before drawings are released for fabrication.
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Millwork, Casework & Interior Shop Drawings Kansas
Millwork shop drawings and casework shop drawings for custom cabinetry, reception desks, built-ins, and interior finish carpentry. Every set includes material callouts, hardware schedules, and assembly details sized for the shop, turning architectural interior intent into fabrication-ready drawings a millwork shop can cut and build from directly.
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Curtain Wall, Storefront & Glazing Drawings Kansas
Curtain wall shop drawings, storefront shop drawings, and facade detailing for commercial building envelopes. We produce glazing shop drawings and metal panel shop drawings with anchor details, thermal breaks, and panel layouts coordinated to structural steel and MEP penetrations, so envelope contractors bid and fabricate from a fully resolved set.
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Stair & Railing Shop Drawings Kansas
Stair shop drawings and railing shop drawings covering steel, aluminum, and mixed-material assemblies, including handrail shop drawings sized to ADA and local egress requirements. We detail miscellaneous steel shop drawings and architectural metal shop drawings for stairs, guardrails, and platform systems ready for shop fabrication and field installation.
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CNC & Fabrication-Ready Drawings Kansas
CNC fabrication drawings prepared for direct machine input, including DSTV file preparation and NC file generation for CNC steel lines. Serving Kansas’s aerospace and advanced-manufacturing base, we produce component fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, and production drawings that move straight from drafting to the CNC floor.
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Piping & Pipe Spool Drawings Kansas
Piping shop drawings and pipe spool drawings for process, plumbing, and mechanical piping systems, including isometrics and spool-level fabrication detail. We support plumbing fabrication drawings and mechanical fabrication drawings for both commercial building systems and industrial process piping across Kansas manufacturing and energy projects.
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Fire Protection & Sprinkler Shop Drawings Kansas
Fire protection shop drawings and sprinkler shop drawings coordinated against structural, MEP, and ceiling systems to avoid rework at rough-in. Drawings are built to the fire code adopted by your specific Kansas jurisdiction, since the Kansas Fire Prevention Code sets the statewide floor while local authorities may enforce stricter amendments.
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Shop Drawing Submittal & Coordination Review Kansas
Shop drawing review services, submittal services, and approval support that track your package through architect and engineer review cycles. We manage shop drawing coordination across disciplines and provide multidisciplinary shop drawing coordination and clash detection support, closing out comments quickly so resubmittals don’t stall the schedule.
Kansas Building Code Landscape
No statewide code. Twelve-plus jurisdictions, twelve-plus rulebooks.
Kansas is one of a handful of U.S. states with no mandatory statewide building code. Instead, cities and counties individually adopt and amend their own editions of the IBC and IRC, which means the code edition, local amendments, and design-load values enforced in Wichita can differ meaningfully from those enforced in Overland Park or Topeka, even for a nearly identical project.
The one code that does apply statewide is the Kansas Fire Prevention Code, enforced by the State Fire Marshal - local jurisdictions may amend it to be more stringent, but not less. There is likewise no statewide electrical code; the 2008 NEC applies only to state-owned buildings, while cities and counties set their own NEC edition locally.
Because of this patchwork, our detailing process confirms the adopted code edition and local amendments for your project's specific address before a shop drawing is produced - not after review comments come back.
| Jurisdiction | Typical Code Base | Note |
|---|---|---|
Wichita / Sedgwick Co. | 2024 IBC family | Among the earlier Kansas cities to move to the 2024 cycle |
Overland Park | 2018 IBC family | Local amendments apply |
Kansas City, KS | 2018 IBC family | Wyandotte County jurisdiction |
Topeka / Shawnee Co. | 2018 IBC family | Confirm current amendments |
Olathe | 2018 IBC family | Johnson County jurisdiction |
Lawrence | 2018 IBC family | Douglas County jurisdiction |
Why Kansas, Right Now
The Projects Driving Kansas's Shop Drawing Demand
Wichita's aerospace supply chain, the De Soto battery-and-data-center campus, and the I-35/I-70 logistics spine are the fabrication schedules we detail for - each one answering to a different city or county.
Aerospace and aviation manufacturing in Wichita, the Air Capital of the World, needs fabrication and tooling drawings a machine shop can cut from, from Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems tiers down to smaller shops. Along the Johnson County corridor, the Panasonic De Soto EV-battery and AI data-center campus, plus nearby hyperscale and colocation work, needs BIM-coordinated, clash-checked shop drawings.
Warehouse and distribution work on the I-35/I-70 corridor connecting Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita needs the same jurisdiction-first detailing, as do grain-handling, processing, and cold-storage facilities across the state's agricultural base.
- Wichita
- Air Capital aerospace and aviation fabrication
- De Soto
- EV-battery and AI data-center campus
- I-35 / I-70
- Logistics corridor from Kansas City to Wichita
Sectors We Detail For
Industries running on Kansas shop drawings.
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Aerospace & Aviation Manufacturing
Fabrication and tooling drawings for Wichita’s “Air Capital of the World” supply chain, from Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems tiers to smaller machine shops.
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Advanced Manufacturing & Battery Production
Structural and MEP shop drawings supporting large-format industrial builds like the Panasonic De Soto EV-battery and AI data-center battery campus.
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Data Centers & Mission-Critical Facilities
BIM-coordinated, clash-checked shop drawings for the hyperscale and colocation projects landing along the Johnson County corridor.
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Logistics & Distribution
Warehouse and distribution-center shop drawings for the I-35/I-70 corridor connecting Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita.
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Food & Agricultural Processing
Structural and MEP detailing for grain-handling, processing, and cold-storage facilities across Kansas’s agricultural base.
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Commercial & Institutional Construction
Shop drawing submittal packages for retail, office, healthcare, and education projects statewide.
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Energy & Utilities
Fabrication and piping drawings for power, pipeline, and utility infrastructure work.
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Municipal & Public Works
Permit-ready drawings for public buildings, parks, and infrastructure across Kansas cities and counties.
Instrumentation
Software our Kansas shop drawings are built in.
AutoCAD
Revit
Tekla Structures
SDS/2
Navisworks Manage
Autodesk Construction Cloud (BIM 360)
SketchUp Pro
Bluebeam Revu
Why Choose Us
Shop drawing experts built for Kansas's home-rule reality.
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Jurisdiction-First Detailing
We confirm the exact adopted code edition, amendments, and design-load values for your project’s city or county before drafting starts.
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Fabricator-Ready Output
Drawings are formatted for the shop floor, not just for permit review, with DSTV/NC1 export where CNC fabrication is involved.
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Documented QC Pass
Every package goes through an internal detailer review before delivery, cutting down on RFIs and resubmittal cycles.
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National Scale, Local Detail
Serving all 50 states since 2014 means the throughput of a national firm without losing sight of local code specifics.
- Company founded in Austin, Texas
- 2014
- Better Business Bureau rating
- A+
- U.S. states served
- 50
- Shop drawing sub-services offered
- 12
Company founded in Austin, Texas
Better Business Bureau rating
U.S. states served
Shop drawing sub-services offered
Our Process
How a Kansas Shop Drawing Submittal Moves Through Our Shop
Standard turnaround runs 48 hours for most single-discipline packages. Rush 48-72 hour turnaround is available for time-sensitive submittals and resubmittals.
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Confirm the jurisdiction
We confirm the adopted code edition, local amendments, and ASCE 7 design-load values for the project address before a line is detailed.
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Detail the trade
Structural, MEP, architectural, and fabrication specialists produce sheets in Tekla, SDS/2, Revit, or AutoCAD to match the shop.
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Clash-check
Federated models go through a Navisworks clash pass so ceiling cavities, chases, and penetrations are resolved before release.
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QC pass
An internal detailer reviews the package before delivery, cutting down on RFIs and resubmittal cycles.
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Release for fabrication
PDF and DWG for submittal, RVT and IFC for BIM, and DSTV/NC1 where the shop runs CNC.
Coverage
Shop drawing services across Kansas.
We produce shop drawings for projects anywhere in Kansas. See our drafting services in Kansas page for related CAD, BIM, and construction documentation across the state.
Wichita
Overland Park
Kansas City, KS
Topeka
Olathe
Lawrence
Lenexa
Manhattan
Salina
Hutchinson
Leavenworth
Leawood
Shawnee
Garden City
Dodge City
Emporia
Derby
Prairie Village
Junction City
De Soto
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Get your Kansas shop drawings cleared for fabrication.
Send us your engineering set and target jurisdiction - we'll confirm the applicable code edition and return a scoped quote and timeline.