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AI Drafting for Senior Living Projects

A senior living community is three building types under one roof: independent living apartments, assisted living units, and a secured memory care wing, each with its own occupancy chapter and its own unit typicals. Nomic drafts the unit plans, nurse call, and power for every unit type in CAD, carries them across mirrored and flipped units, and checks the set against NFPA 101, the accessibility standard, and the operator design guide before your team reviews and stamps it.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Architectural unit plans and floor plates as DWG or PDF
  • The operator design guide and unit mix
  • Nurse call and wander management system cutsheets
  • State licensing rules and the code editions the project uses
  • Your CAD standards file and title block

Nomic hands back

  • Unit typical power, lighting, nurse call, and plumbing plans as DWG files
  • Floor plans with typicals placed, mirrored, and flipped to the architecture
  • Nurse call device schedule in Excel and on the sheet
  • Plotted PDFs with clouds on every changed unit and a list of AHJ questions
1234567ABCUNIT501UNIT502UNIT503UNIT504UNIT505UNIT506UNIT507AMENITY508UNIT509UNIT510STAIRS2TRAVEL 148'-0" < 250'-0"OL 12OL 12OL 12OL 12OL 12OL 12OL 12EXITFEC1-HOUR FIRE BARRIEREXIT ACCESS TRAVEL PATH27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1ALIFE SAFETY PLANSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTCEDAR LOFTSSCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE06/09/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLELIFE SAFETY PLANSHEET NUMBERG-101

On the sheet

Life Safety Plan, annotated

A life safety plan with rated walls, occupant loads, and the exit access path checked against the travel limit.

  1. 1Rated corridor walls
  2. 2Exit access path with travel distance
  3. 3Exit sign at the stair
  4. 4Occupant load per room

The problem

It has to feel like home and pass like a care facility

The operator wants the assisted living suite to look like an apartment: residential light fixtures, no dome lights in the corridor, wood-look flooring, a kitchenette. The licensing agency and NFPA 101 still want emergency call at the toilet and shower, smoke compartments on every floor, and door hardware that a resident with arthritis can operate. Every unit type ends up carrying both sets of requirements, and the drafting has to show both without making the drawings unreadable.

Then the unit mix changes. Six independent living one-bedrooms become assisted living studios, which changes the occupancy chapter, the nurse call devices, the accessible unit count, and sometimes the smoke compartment layout. With 120 units across six types, mirrored and flipped, a change to one typical has to land correctly on every unit built from it, and a missed pull cord in one flipped bathroom is the kind of item a state surveyor finds at the final inspection.

01 / Unit typicals

Each unit type drawn once, placed everywhere it repeats

Attach the architectural unit plans and the operator design guide. Nomic drafts power, lighting, nurse call, and plumbing for each unit type, then places the typicals across the floor plates, mirroring and flipping them to match the architecture and keeping device locations tied to the walls they serve.

  • Independent living, assisted living, and memory care typicals drafted separately
  • Emergency call at toilets, showers, and beds where the program requires it
  • Typicals placed with mirrors and flips, then checked unit by unit
02 / Owner standards

Drawn to the operator guide and the state rules

Senior living operators publish design guides that go well past code: nurse call device counts, residential fixture selections, lever hardware, and finish contrast for residents with low vision. Nomic reads the guide, the state licensing rules you attach, and the nurse call manufacturer cutsheets, and drafts to all three in your CAD standards.

  • Operator device counts and fixture types applied per unit type
  • Nurse call devices and corridor annunciation from the system cutsheets
  • State licensing requirements noted where they exceed the model codes
03 / Check

Checked against the occupancy chapter for each wing

Independent living, assisted living, and memory care usually fall under different NFPA 101 chapters and IBC occupancy groups, so Nomic checks each wing against the chapter your code consultant assigned. It also checks the accessible units against ICC A117.1 and clouds every unit it changed.

  • Smoke compartments and corridor doors per the assigned NFPA 101 chapter
  • Accessible and Type B units checked against ICC A117.1
  • Delayed egress and controlled egress doors listed for AHJ approval

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.

  • NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, the chapter assigned to each wing
  • International Building Code, Groups R-2, R-4, and I-1
  • ADA 2010 Standards and ICC A117.1
  • FGI Guidelines for residential health, care, and support facilities
  • State assisted living licensing rules and the operator design guide

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 drafts power, lighting, nurse call, and plumbing for each independent living, assisted living, and memory care unit type in CAD, places the typicals across the building, and saves DWG files in your standards. Each unit is checked after placement so mirrored and flipped units get the same devices.

Nomic places pull cords, bed stations, corridor annunciation, and wander management devices from the operator design guide and the system cutsheets, and builds the device schedule. The system design and the final layout approval stay with your engineer and the nurse call vendor.

That depends on the number of residents, their ability to evacuate, and the state licensing category. Assisted living often falls under the NFPA 101 residential board and care chapters and IBC Group R-4 or I-1, while memory care can land in a different classification. Your code consultant or architect assigns the classification, and Nomic checks the drawings against the chapter they choose.

Tell Nomic which units change type. It swaps the typicals, updates the nurse call schedule and accessible unit counts, and clouds every unit it touched so the reviewer can confirm the change floor by floor.

Neither. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files that open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. If the building is modeled in Revit, your modeler links the DWGs and change list into the model.

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