Construction methodology
Posted: August 26th, 2021
Construction methodology
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Table of Contents
Materials and Equipment Handling. 9
Personnel Movement and Accommodation. 10
Temporary Engineering Services. 11
Appendix 2- Type-A basement construction. 15
Appendix 2- Sandwich method of base construction. 15
Construction Methodology
Introduction
The project is construction is of residential and retail developments involving the construction of three buildings, a car park, and street lights. The construction site is located between East andWest Street, and South Lane in busy retail and residential area of SE Queensland City, as shown in Appendix 1on the site location. The location is ideal for residential and retail development as the surrounding environment, and nearby lots are fully developed. The surrounding East and West streets are busy dual carriageway urban streets with paid street parking, pedestrian footpaths, and significant volumes of both pedestrian and vehicle traffic systems. Besides, the existing project site requires minimal clearing, demolition, and removal of a few old structures and substantial earthworks of approximately twenty thousand cubic meters of topsoil (Yan, Ma & Zheng, 2019). The topsoil also needs to be removed from the site before commencing the building works. The construction project will be implemented in three stages over approximately twenty months with construction activities as follows; Phase one will involve demolitions, clearing, topsoil removal, and bulk earthworks. Phase II will be the building of block1 that will have eight stories. Phase II three will involve constructions of building 2 and 3 with 12 stories. Hence, there will be three car lots for every building as all buildings will have an independent car parking space that is car lot 1, 2, and 3 for buildings 1, 2, and 3, respectively.
The project was approved by the Brisbane City Council on 11thFebruary 2019 and given council approval number A123456789 and permitted reference number DAMC123456789. The construction will begin on 1st September 2020 after a successful site review and approval from the city council and site planning concluded on 27th July 2020. This follows the recommencement planning conditions, procurement period with the tendering company, and project mobilization. It is estimated that the project will provide approximately three hundred people in the construction period. Among the employees targeted are chief engineer, architecture, civil engineers, skilled and semiskilled laborers. The anticipated building cost is $1.5 billion for the three buildings and three-car lots.
Further, the project will utilize the latest technology in the construction industry, world-class modern finishes of interior and exterior for the three-buildings. Equally, it will be installed with the latest building elevators and air conditioning (Yan, Ma & Zheng, 2019). It is thus expected to exceed the market expectations and being the construction leader in the region. Hence, the project will consider the significant effects on the overall surrounding environment, which may emerge during the construction process. As such, the aim is to take necessary precautions and ensure smooth implementation of the project while adhering to the council’s safety codes.
Management Plans
Sufficient planning of the project is essential for the building to ensure the timely completion of the building. This can also enhance the management of resources within the budget limits. A pre-start meeting will be conducted with the project team to ensure that all project issues are implicit and managed before commencing construction works. The pre-contract meeting will discuss the construction stages and be presided over by the contract administrator (Demirel et al., 2017). The meeting will issue the contact details, clarify the roles and responsibilities of each employee and communication lines, and agree on meeting schedules, structures, and attendees during construction. Equally, the pre-start meeting will issue outstanding information on the project, nomination instructions, and discuss the contractor’s master program. It will alsointroduce on-site inspectors and the roles of team members. More so, site access procedures, monitoring procedures, and distribution matrix will be outlined in detail. Therefore, the pre-contract meeting is meant to foster discussion on-site induction procedures, health and safety issues, and the mobilization schedule.
Consequently, fundamental project control strategies will be incorporated into the management plan to smooth the construction. These include construction management, work health and safety, environmental management, quality assurance, workplace relations management, site security, dewatering, traffic management, demolition, and tenant management plan (Oleinik, 2018; Yan, Ma & Zheng, 2019). The construction management plan (CMP) will be developed to help outline the client’s intentions for the project. This case will offer detailed technical information to the statutory authority, project team, and other stakeholders. Besides, CMP is utilized in providing guidelines on-site access, traffic management, environmental controls, waste management, and fire prevention plans (Yan, Ma & Zheng, 2019; Emmitt, 2018). At the same time, it will highlight aspects of cultural heritage and archaeology, ecology, and neighborly relations. Work health and safety (WHS) management plan will offer a detailed plan on the project’s specific risks in the construction site and the steps to mitigate the risks (Oleinik, 2018). Thus, notable elements in the WHS will be persons responsible for health and safety, arrangements for the management of emergency incidents during the construction, site-specific rules and regulations, and site assessment and monitoringplans.
Moreover, the environmental management plan will be utilized in outlining ways on how the project will mitigate environmental risks. These include strategies to manage pollution against the surrounding. The plan also highlights the stakeholder requirements, approaches to ensure full compliance with the environmental regulatory bodies, and overall management of the environment (Oleinik, 2018). Further, the quality assurance plan will be essential in the implementation of the construction activities since it will offer a set of systematically planned activities for all teams. These activities will be laid out before starting in consultation with the project team. Hence, these plans aim to ensure that every team is aware of their particular roles and can execute them on time with a focus on effective delivery and quality.
The last aspect of management plans is the dewatering plan that focuses on providing a detailed analysis of how the company will remove the surface water from the construction site. However, during the site and groundwater testing, it was established that the water table is deep enough and may not cause any problem during excavations and construction (Bingham & Gibson Jr, 2017).). Thus, this will not be a big issue to the project development.However, the traffic management plan will provide a guidance document on the introduction and summary of the six sections of the construction information, temporary works, training, controls, risks, and resources (Oleinik, 2018). The plan will also contain an online fillable document of the six sections to be filled by individuals visiting the site, ensuring that the vehicles and people visiting the site comply with the legal requirements. The existing project site requires demolition and removal of old structures and substantial earthworks of approximately twenty thousand cubic meters of topsoil. Finally, the tenancy management plan will highlight the lease period, lease amount, tenants’ responsibility, local laws compliance, and subletting rules.
Site Establishment
In one month, before the commencement of the construction project, site management proposals shall be implemented to set up the site. The site setup process’s primary objective is to reduce environmental and accidental risks of discharging pollutants to the environment, provide employees with welfare facilities, ensure site security, and promote practical resource usage (Yan et al., 2019). These facilities will include setting up site boundaries by demarcating the perimeter wall around the site to reduce unnecessary movement in and out of the site. The site will also have site security facilities, temporary car parking, welfare facilities, offices, and a secure temporary equipment storage area strategically located away from active construction areas. Besides, emergency spill kits, management facilities on dust and wheel washing, material storage areas, and waste segregation areas will be provided. Besides, the ancillary site management processes in site establishment will entail a strict speed limit (Yan et al., 2019). A sewerage effluent removal plan will be set up at the site to facilitate removal wastes, which will be deposited in an appropriate location according to provided conditions by the City Council. Thus, to implement this, necessary approval and documentation have been acquired from the Brisbane City Council that was given on 11th February 2019 with the council approval number A123456789 and permit reference number DAMC123456789.
Neighboring Properties
The project management will also highlight the effects of constructing the three buildings to the neighboring properties, natural environment, and related inconveniences to the people. A communication plan will be set up that enhances frequent communication with the neighbors in case of issues arising during construction. However, the surrounding area is not covered by much vegetation; hence the project will not have much problem managing effects on the natural environment.
Site Access
The site will be easily accessible by construction vehicles ferrying materials and employees. However, the movement of pedestrians and vehicular within the neighboring will be restricted from the area. Separate access points for workers and visitors will be designated at different points alongthe North Road, East Street, South Lane, and West Street (Demirel, et al., 2017). Further, clear identification for these parts will be given. For instance, the management has proposed identifying the gates as A1, B2, C3, and D4 along the North Road, East Street, South Lane, and West Street, respectively. The site will use a two-way road network for ease of movement of the vehicles and individuals, safety, and easy monitoring. All vehicles accessing the site will use B2 on East Street apart from deliveries vehicles that will use C3 on South Lane. Individuals, staff, and other authorized personnel will access the site using A1 on North road while D4 will be reserved for emergency exit. The vehicles offloading raw materials and deliveries will be done in the offloading site market as E5 near parking lot two and supervised by authorized staff, which will be scheduled to avoid over-delivery and over-ordering and peak traffic periods. Signage will also be adopted in the site for easier identification of access routes and inform motorists that local roads are used to accommodate construction traffic (Demirel, et al., 2017). Thus, the company will use shaker grids and concrete paving blocks to maintain the local road networks.
Demolition Plan
The existing project site requires demolition and removal of old structures to attain substantial earthworks of approximately twenty thousand cubic meters of topsoil is required. Demolition activities are accompanied by noise and dust (Papelniuk, 2018). Hence, the demolition plan will aim to ensure that noise and dust produced from demolition sites are within the acceptable standards. This will help reduce the effects of noise besides. Some proposed measures include misting and restriction of speed of vehicular movement on the site. Also, dust bags will be fitted to the exaction tools and incorporate vacuum machines to collect excessive dust from the sites (Bingham & Gibson Jr, 2017). Equally, appropriate low-noise machines will be used during the operation to lower noise impacts.
Basement Construction
The basement construction of the three-building adopted type A, which is tanked protection, as indicated in appendix 2. In this system, water-resistant layers in the form of the membrane are installed to the exterior part of the structure and rely on the waterproofing membrane (Emmitt, 2018). The method is ideal for the current as there are no issues with underground water. Thus, the membrane in this construction was simply sandwiched during installation on the site (see appendix 3).
Vertical Containment
The building will have a perimeter wall and will be under 24/7 surveillance cameras to enhance security. Equally, internal areas such as staircases will be placed at the right end of every building protected with grills to barricade the systems. These will serve as means of emergency exit in the buildings in case of unexpected.
Materials and Equipment Handling
Significant consideration has been accorded types of materials and equipment that would be used. In this case, the project managers will have to ensure that safety in the handling during use and movement is given utmost attention. It is the responsibility of the project management team to strive for the safety of its team (Bingham & Gibson Jr, 2017). Hence, the company will adopt vertical and horizontal material movements for all types of machinery used. The vertical material movements include three mobile cranes that will be located on the parking lot of every building for ease of material movements (Banks et al., 2019). For easy materials transportation, a material hoisting Sc200 will place adjacent to building 3 for easy access and use. The company will utilize a loading dock of 55 inches used for fork-lifting. Hence, three satellite boom concrete pumping machines will be used for concrete mixing. This will be located adjacent to each building to offer structure and completion finishes and easily availing the needed concrete materials.
Similarly, the horizontal material movements such as telescopic handler fork-lifts used in the construction will be positioned where it is easy to move machines as required in all directions (Banks et al., 2019). In this, three telescopic handler fork-lifts located in every building. Thus, the company has constructed a temporary store close to the area where tools and small equipment will be stored during the period.
Personnel Movement and Accommodation
The company staff will access the site using A1 on North Road and park their vehicles on the site next to this road. The area is preferred because it is outside the active construction site. Thus, pedestrian activities within these areas have limited disruption in the ongoing construction process (Bingham & Gibson Jr, 2017). More so, the workers will be required to enter the site dressed in full gear provided by the company for safety purposes. Additionally, specific temporary accommodation and welfare facilities for the construction staff will be located on the far end of the North Road near the staff parking space. Also, the number of employees at the site will be limited to about three hundred (300) people during the construction period, though only one hundred employees will be accommodated in the site that, with at mostthirty (30) semi-permanent houses with fifteen toilets and bathrooms. The houses will be cleaned every three days by casual laborers provided by the company to enhance hygiene.
Rubbish Removal
Rubbish in the construction site is a crucial concern, but the company has placed mechanisms on waste management and removal. The strategies in waste management include minimizing waste, effectively segregating waste, recycling materials, and avoiding demolition (Banks et al., 2019). Hence, large waste collection bins will be distributed for collection, packing, and transfer of wastes. In this case, the sister company Quality Contractors will be hired to play this role.
Temporary Engineering Services
The company has employed staff in all the essential departments to facilitate the construction site’s execution of activities. The temporary services will be required to operate vertical movement materials such as cranes, loading bay propelling, and hoist structure penetrations (Moon et al., 2016). Thus, temporary engineers will need to assist in these activities and in metal prop base to strengthen the base of the walls against possible collapse.
Quality of the Buildings
The company will ensure the quality of the construction through timely completion with world-class modern finishes and sophisticated building elevators, air conditioning. It is expected that the structure will be one of the exceptional cases in the market. More so, the project management will strive to ensure that the project is completed within the budget, fulfilling the contract specifications (Bingham & Gibson, 2017). Finally, efforts will be made to ensure that the construction activities are within the legal requirements to avoid any lawsuits that may undermine the project’s timely completion.
Summary
The construction methodology provides a comprehensive report on the construction of the three buildings and a parking lot. It has offered an in-depth analysis of specific details on the contents of the management plan and its applicability in the construction, period, cost, employees’ management, and monitoring. Equally, the report provides a discussion of on-site works requirements, basement construction, and site management. In conclusion, this construction methodology offers comprehensive procedures to focus on guidelines for mitigating adverse impacts such as environmental pollution, health, and safety. Adequate adherence to the plan will help reduce adverse effects on the environment. Hence, the construction will be done per the recommendations while ensuring that the utmost quality is achieved within the client budget framework.
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Appendices
Appendix 1- Site Location
Appendix 2- Type-A basement construction
Appendix 2- Sandwich method of base construction
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