A significant part of my consulting business involves reviewing the construction details for EIFS projects before the buildings are constructed. Often, an architect or owner will send me the plans and want me to comment on what he or she is thinking of doing. It’s money well spent, because few architects I’ve met understand EIFS well enough to properly design all the details on an EIFS building.
Typically, the architect’s drawings show basic EIFS details (some of which are often not completely shown on the drawings). Often, the “unshown” are the oddball or difficult ones for which little precedence is available in terms of standard industry details.