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Buildability Successful Construction from Concept to Completion

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Product Code: TD/TTP/BSCCC
Buildability demonstrates the projects that go well and leave satisfied clients and contractors and are based on thorough planning and design. Successful projects tend to be ‘buildable’ projects – easy to construct in a safe manner.

Additional information

Weight 500 g
Author

TM Holroyd

Publisher

ICE Publishing

ISBN Number

9780727732071

Year

2003

Contents

1. The state of the industry 1

Constructing the team – The Latham Report 2

Contract strategy, 2

The design process, 3

The contract choice for clients, 5

Selection and tendering procedures, 6

Issues which determine performance, 8

Teamwork on site, 11

Dispute resolution, 13

Rethinking construction – The Egan Report 14

The need to improve, 15

Client dissatisfaction, 16

The ambition for UK construction, 17

The scope for improvement, 19

Improving the project process, 21

Repeated processes, 21

An integrated project process, 22

Focus on the end product, 22

Design for construction and use, 32

Standardisation, 35

Technology as a tool, 35

Better regulation, 36

Long-term relationships, 36

Reduced reliance on tendering, 38

Summary 39

2. The health and safety issues 43

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 43

The Management of Health and Safety at Work

Regulations 1992 44

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992 45

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 46

Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 47

Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment)

Regulations 1992 47

Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 47

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 50

The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare)

Regulations 1996 56

Lifting items that are too heavy 65

Lifting or working in an unsuitable manner 66

Deafness and ear problems 67

3. The business requirement 69

Successful construction management 69

Allocation of risk, 70

Contract strategy and risk assessment 71

The brief 71

Procurement for large process/power plant projects 76

The contract choice for clients 77

Designs and drawings 79

Bill of Quantities 82

Specifications 88

From client to end user – and back again 90

Client, 90

Architect/designer, 95

The main contractor, 97

Sub-contractors (including specialists), 99

Direct labour – that employed directly by the

main contractor, 100

Feedback, 101

Sensible targets and sensible intentions 103

Effective resourcing 105

Labour, 105

Plant equipment and tools, 107

Materials, 111

Sub-contractors, 112

Successful construction 114

4. Good practice in the construction process 119

Pre-contract work 119

Tender handover, 119

Project start-up meeting, 120

Other preparations, 121

Site establishment, 122

Temporary works, 124

Demolition 124

At tender stage, 125

The demolition survey, 125

Preferred method of working, 125

Method statement, 126

Public protection, 126

Preferred sequence of demolition, 126

Excavation 128

Confined spaces 130

Concreting 131

Preparation for concrete, 132

The concrete mix, 132

Placing of concrete, 133

Concrete curing, 134

Concrete additives, 135

Completion of concreting, 135

Formwork 136

Release agents, 136

Construction joints, 136

Fixing formwork, 137

Cleaning formwork, 138

Grout checks, 138

The wall or column kicker, 138

Checking formwork, 139

Timber formwork, 139

Typical problems, 140

Steel formwork, 140

Reinforcement 144

Scaffolding 147

Regulation 5 – safe places of work, 147

Regulations 6 and 7 – precautions against falls, 147

Regulation 8 – falling objects, 148

Effective scaffold erection, 148

Dismantling scaffolding, 150

Brickwork 151

Problems with brickwork, 152

Trenches and pipelaying 153

Safety checklist, 154

Pipelaying, 157

Backfilling of trenches, 157

Dealing with existing flows (mains), 158

Erection of structures 159

5. The future 161

Education and training 161

Research and development 162

From idea to reality 165

Consultants 167

Bridges 169

Road construction 169

Treatment plants 170

Concrete box reservoirs 171

Drainage 172

River and marine works 172

General construction 173

Engineering services 174

Mechanical and electrical installations 174

Shopping malls, 174

Business parks and premises, 175

Purchasing, 175

References 177

Index 181