Shaft Construction - Site Layout Requirements

Site Layout Requirements

Tommelein (1989) defines Construction site layout and its benefits as below:

“ identifying the facilities that are temporary needed to support construction operation on a project but that do not form apart of the furnished structure: determining the size and shape of these facilities; positioning them within the boundaries of the available on-site or remote areas” “the so called temporary facilities usually remain on site for a period ranging from a few days to several months or even years, a time period that ranges from duration of a construction activity to the duration of a major phase of the entire construction period” “ a well-organized site facilities inventory control, cuts travel times, reduces noise and dust, prevents obstructions and interference, increases safety and security, and improves site access”

According to Fangyi Zhou (2006), considerations affecting the site layout are: Efficiently using site space to accommodate resources throughout a construction project is fundamental to success of a project. So optimizing the construction site layout using physical and computational models is of interest to many researchers. Site Layout has a great effect on project costs, therefore, models are used to simulate the different site layouts and choose the best one.