OBJECTIVES

The objective of the site visit is to enables students to understand the basics
of the construction process. Site visit is conducted for SABD students every semester so that students enable to understand how the construction sites works and the structural of the building in reality. Some of the learning objectives are: Have better understanding about basics of the construction process.

Involve in the real working environment.

Understand the ability and importance of communicate with construction team members. The importance of teamwork in construction site. Understand the usage and the function of the construction equipments. Understand more about building material that used in construction site. Understand the importance of safety on site and some incidents that happened in construction site. Understand the structural of the building. Able to study an efficient method to take-off quantities from drawings and prepares a details Bills of Quantities.

Able to understand and visualize the architecture or structural drawings

and the details

CONTENT OBSERVATIONS
Before we enter the construction site, we could probably saw the construction board at the entrance of construction site that shows the contractor or consultant that involve in the construction project. Once we enter the construction site, there is a small storage that stores the scrap metal wastage of the site. There was a big container at the site which is the site office for the contractors or site engineer work and place their site drawing in it. We guided by the contractor of the site at the site office. We were advised by to wear safety hat for safety purpose before walking around the construction site. There was a board in front of the site office showing contractor for the project, when the projects start and amount of accidents that happened at the construction site.

The contractor gave us a detailed explanation about the construction as we followed him walk around the construction site. He also ask us some question about the material that use for building construction. During walking around the construction site, there are lorry sending bundle of different types of reinforcement bar to the construction site. Each bundle contains of certain quantities of

reinforcement bar and every bundle are tied with a small plate showing the types and details of reinforcement bars. There also a places to kept the fabric

reinforcement bar (BRC). Besides the place loading the BRC, there is a place for the workers to bend the bars using machinery or hand to bents.

The contractor also taught us how to paid for each building structure and
the measurements for each building structure and building materials such as reinforcements bar, scaffolding and others more as we are study as a quantity surveyors. Besides that, he also explained to us about the concrete test for the concrete. They will try the concrete test for 3 times to make sure the concrete meets the strength. If the cube test fail to meet the requirement for the first time

after 7 days, they will try another test 14 days and if it fail again for the last test
which is 28 days, they will do another test call actual pour concrete. If the last part fail again, they will take off the part of concrete and pour new concrete on it. The contractor also show us how they make concrete spacing block that put under the beam before fitting in the reinforcement bar to the beams.

TECHNICAL OBSERVATION
After the few weeks of class, we have gained some basic knowledge about
construction. The site visits help to visualize all the building structural elements that we study inside the note. Its help us to understand more details about the construction process. Steel bars is one of important materials in construction site. Most structure of building such as footing, ground beams, columns and others more need to put reinforcement bars to become more stronger and support the load of the building with concrete and also to prevent the concrete crack easily. The reinforcement bars inside the column helps to transfer tension or load to the ground. Therefore, steel bar is one of the most important element in construction.

Besides steel bar, timber is also the important element to use in construction site. Most important is to use timber to make the formwork. During walking around the construction site, we can see formwork everywhere of the building. It is to fix the shape of the wet concrete to form a structural element of building such as column, beams and others.

PHOTOS & DESCRIPTIONS

SCAFFOLDING
- Temporary support for the structure of building and for purpose to get to another level.

Formwork for first floor beams and columns

Mild steel bars that bend into links or stirrups

Site Container / Site Office - A places where site engineer or contractor works - Some site drawing are kept inside site office/site container.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, we had gain a lot extra knowledge after the site visiting. It is nice and new experience for us in semester one. We had understand that how a building is built up from the foundation. We had get better understand about the structural of the building. We also gain some extra knowledge from the contractor and it is useful for our study in the future. Besides that, I had experienced that

teamwork is very important in construction site. Every workers must communicate

among each other so that can work smoothly and safety. I hope that I had another chances to visit to the construction site in future semester.

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