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AI Drafting for Office Fit-Out and Tenant Improvement Projects

Office tenant improvement jobs arrive with a signed lease, a move-in date, and a landlord base building DWG that is three tenants out of date. Nomic drafts the demo plans, new work plans, and furniture-driven power and data in CAD on top of the base building, then checks the set against the work letter and the code before your team reviews it.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Landlord base building DWG and building standards manual
  • The tenant work letter and any landlord design criteria
  • Furniture dealer workstation plan or the approved test fit
  • Site walk photos of the existing floor and panels
  • Your CAD standards file and title block

Nomic hands back

  • Test fit plans with headcount and workstation counts
  • Demo and new work plans for partitions, ceilings, power, data, and lighting
  • Panel schedule updates for the tenant panels
  • Plotted PDFs with every new item clouded, plus open questions for the landlord
1234567ABCOPEN OFFICE401OFFICE402OFFICE403OFFICE404OFFICE405OFFICE406CONFERENCE407OPEN OFFICE408OPEN OFFICE409STAIRS21234EXISTING TO REMAINREMOVE1REMOVE PARTITION AND BASE, PATCH FLOOR27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1ADEMOLITION PLANSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTHARBOR POINT OFFICESSCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE10/26/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEDEMOLITION PLANSHEET NUMBERAD-101

On the sheet

Demolition Plan, annotated

A demolition plan with existing walls to remain, partitions to remove, and keynotes tied to the scope.

  1. 1Partition to be removed, drawn dashed
  2. 2Keynote tied to the demolition notes
  3. 3Existing construction to remain
  4. 4Finish removal area

The problem

Every floor starts from a base building nobody trusts

The landlord sends a base building background, the previous tenant left partitions and floor boxes that never made it onto that background, and the broker needs a test fit by Friday. Before anyone designs anything, a drafter walks the floor, photographs every device, and redraws existing conditions so the demo plan can say what comes out.

Then the furniture dealer issues a new workstation plan, the spine moves two feet, and every poke-through, floor box, and data drop on the power plan has to follow it. Partitions, ceilings, sprinkler head relocations, and power plans all change together, and the turnaround on a 20,000 square foot floor is usually counted in days.

01 / Demo and new work

Existing conditions, demo, and new work from one site walk

Send the base building DWG and the site walk photos. Nomic reads the devices, panel labels, and partition layout in the photos, draws what is actually on the floor, marks what comes out on the demo sheet, and lays out the new work on its own sheet in your layers.

  • Existing receptacles, floor boxes, and fixtures drawn from photos
  • Demo sheets tagged remove, relocate, or existing to remain
  • New work power, data, and lighting laid out from the furniture plan
02 / Landlord standards

Drawn to the work letter and the building standards

Most office landlords publish building standards for ceiling grid, light fixtures, door hardware, and core drilling, and the work letter says who pays for what. Nomic reads those documents alongside your CAD standards, so the drawings use the building standard fixture and call out the landlord review items the property manager will ask about.

  • Building standard fixtures, ceiling grid, and door hardware applied
  • Core drill and poke-through locations kept clear of the landlord no-drill zones
  • Tenant and landlord scope split noted on the sheet per the work letter
03 / Check

Checked against the code and the lease documents

Office fit-outs fail plan review on small things: a door without pull side clearance, private offices missing automatic receptacle control, a new conference room that pushes the common path of travel too far. Nomic checks its own drawing against the code editions you name and against the work letter, then clouds what it drew and lists what it could not confirm.

  • Receptacle load, automatic receptacle control, and lighting controls checked
  • Door clearances, corridor widths, and travel distance against the new partitions
  • Conflicts with the landlord core drill plan and base building systems flagged

Checked against

The code and documents behind every sheet

Name the editions the project is designed to and Nomic checks its own drawing against them before handing it back. Your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps the set.

  • International Building Code, Group B occupancy
  • NEC (NFPA 70)
  • ASHRAE 90.1 or the IECC
  • ADA 2010 Standards and ICC A117.1
  • The tenant work letter and landlord building standards

How it works

From a sentence to a stamped set

  1. Step 1

    Ask for the drawing

    Say what the sheet needs to show and attach the backgrounds, markups, cutsheets, or photos. A sentence is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Nomic drafts it in CAD

    Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, on your layers and blocks, following how your firm drew the same thing before. It saves real DWG files to the project.

  3. Step 3

    Nomic checks its own work

    The drawing is checked against the code editions you name and the source documents. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, and open questions are listed.

  4. Step 4

    Your team reviews and stamps

    Your engineers and architects review the clouded changes, make the final call, and issue the set under their own stamp.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files for test fits, demo plans, new work plans, and power and data layouts. It drafts on top of the landlord base building and your furniture plan, then checks the result against the code and the work letter.

Yes. Send the site walk photos with the base building background. Nomic reads the devices, panel labels, and partitions in the photos, draws them on the existing conditions sheet, and flags anything it could not identify so someone can verify it in the field.

Send the new workstation plan and Nomic moves the floor boxes, poke-throughs, data drops, and circuits that depend on the furniture. Every changed item is clouded so the reviewer can see what moved without comparing sheets by hand.

Your architect and engineer of record. Nomic is a new source of drafting capacity, and your team reviews every sheet, decides the design questions it lists, and stamps the set.

No. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files you open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. Teams with a Revit model of the floor get DWGs and a change list their modeler links into the model.

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