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(a) What are the factors to be considered during site establishment process?
Main Factors to be considered during the Site Establishment Process
Public protection and Construction Staff safety
Logistics in built up areas (CBD)
Traffic Management
Industrial Relations
Approvals from Melbourne City Council, Department of
Telecommunication, Gas, Electricity, Road and Traffic Authorities, Water
Corporations, etc
Insurance
Funding Approvals and allocations
Environmental protection, erosion control and sedimentation control.
Other related Issues
(b) Planning process for the excavation in a construction site is carried out
based on the 4P procedure. Explain this procedure
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(c) It is proposed to build a multi-storeyed (8 levels) building at Victoria
University Footscray Park Campus. The estimated time for construction is
approximately 18 months. As you are the project manager of this site, list
out the required facilities and services for operating the construction
activities efficiently and sketch a suitable construction layout plan in the
space given below.
Easy question and it will be answered by tomorrow !
Question 2
(a) Give three main function of construction equipment?
Replaces manual operation, particularly the heavy tasks; maintaining
production where labour is scarce or too expensive to employ
Reduces material wastage
Improves the quality of the final product
Contributes to rapid and timely construction
Enables to carryout large number of tasks simultaneously
Assists to carry out very complicated, difficult, tedious and risky jobs safely
(b) What are the two main categories of excavating equipment available in
the marke? Give examples ( Types of equipment each )
Fixed-position excavating equipment:
Face shovel, Backacter (Backhoe), Skimmer, Dragline and Grab
Moving excavating equipment:
Loader shovel, Bulldozers, Grader, Scraper, Trencher and Wheeled
Backhoe-bucket Loader
(c) List four (4) factors influencing the selection of excavation machinery for
an underground excavation job in the CBD area of Melbourne
The nature of the excavation to be performed;
The type of soil to be excavated;
The distance which the excavated soil must be carried to transport
The condition and gradients of the site;
The productivity of the site work (The cost of renting excavating plant is
very high. They should not be idle or only partly worked.)
(d) Give six (6) strategies of reducing risks of accidents in construction sites
(e) List six E strategies that you would take to implement occupational
health and safety on a construction job.
Engineering improvements to work practices, process, procedures,
environment, guarding, etc.
Education introductions to improve skills, attitudes, etc.
Employment Practices selection of personnel, re- training;
Question 3
(a) List out a detailed a checklist for inspecting the quality and the
precision of concerting (Mixing, placing, compaction, levelling and
curing), reinforcement work and framework in a high-rising building
(b) By using Clear sketches, explain the difference between pre-tensioned
concrete and post-tensioned concrete process.
Check Lecture 9 Page 18
Tilt up building
Notice to proceed
Structural steel-shop drawings
Footing/foundations
Elec and plumbing underground
Slab on grade
Form/ pour / erect tilt-up wall
Structural steel-erect
Roofing
Question 4
(a) By using clear sketches, briefly explain the six (6) modes of trench
failures.
Week 11 page 4, 5 and 6
(b) What is the main difference between shoring and trench shielding?
Trench shielding is different from shoring in that it is intended primarily to
protect workers from cave-ins and similar incidents.
(c) What is meant by wellpoint dewatering? Briefly explain this method
using a sketch.
The system consists of small wells called wellpoints installed around
the excavation and connected to a manifold or riser pipe" which is
connected to a wellpoint pump. This wellpoint pump is designed to
handle the water as well as entrained gases found in the water. (Not
sure)
(d) Give four (4) deep support systems and explain briefly how they are
applied in the construction field.
1. Diaphragm walls: can be used in most ground conditions to construct
deep basements and underground tanks
2. Pile walls (Contiguous, Tangent or Secant)
3. Soldier pile with wooden lagging walls
4. Sheet pile walls
(e) What factors should be considered by a contractor when planning
the formwork requirement for a construction site
Placing schedule and stripping time requirements
Capacity of equipment available to handle form sections and materials
Capacity of mixing and placing equipment
Construction joints
Reuse of forms as affected by stripping time
Relative merits of job-built, shop-built and ready-made forms.
Weather (protection requirements and stripping time)
Compare alternative methods to determine the most efficient plan
(f) What is the main difference between putlog and independent
scaffolding types?