Mobilization

INTRODUCTION

After winning a contract, client has handover the land to the contractor to start the construction work. But the contractor can’t start the work just after he gets the site premises. The contractor should plan the arrangement of site. Without doing that, he can’t do his job properly. If the contractor starts the construction work without doing site mobilization, he will definitely be in trouble. So every contractor should mobilized his site according to the job he has assigned. That’s why in the tender documents and in the BOQ, that is clearly mentioned. The amount of money reserved for the mobilization is depends on the project. And also the duration for the mobilization is also clearly showed in the “Construction Master Schedule, (CMS)”. After providing the essential facilities for the staff and Labour contractor can start the construction work and while doing the work he can mobilize the other requirements of the site

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS

There are few items have to provide at the beginning of a project, by the contractor. Those are;

• Accesses roads
• Water
• Electricity
• Communication
• Site office
• Labour Accommodation
• Stores
• Bar bending yard
• Toilets

WATER AND ELECTRICITY.

    

     In any construction project, the most important material should be the water. Because we need water for many works carried out at the site. So at the beginning of project, contractor should find the water resources for the humans and for the construction work. Other important fact is Electricity. This is the main power source for the site work. This is very important, because there are so many equipment used at the site running by electricity. And also for the lighting at the night, electricity is needed. So at the first stage of mobilization, the contractor should provide these to resources.

  

      SITE OFFICE

     In any construction project, there is a staff to do the day-to-day work at the site. They are from the contractor’s party and consultant party. In multimillion projects, lots of people have involved to the construction work. They should be the project manager, construction manager, site engineer, quantity surveyor, or the consultant. So contractor must provide the office to them for get the proper output from them.

      Toilets & Showers

     When doing a construction project, lots of people are involved to do the work at site. They should be the staff, direct labours or indirect labours and many more. To all of them, contractor must provide the enough sanitary facilities.

      Labour Accommodation

     The contractor should consider about the Labour accommodation. Because most of them are in very far away to the site. So it is difficult to travel daily. Sometimes they have to work at night, due to mass construction. (E.g.: slab concreting). So to gain maximum output as well as to have good management it is necessary to place the Labour accommodation.

     It should be in the site or near the site. In our site we prepared a temporary huts for accommodating for labours.