site visit report (final)

Site Visit Report

1. SCHOOL OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT

BSc (Hons) QUANTITY SURVEYING & COST
MANAGEMENT

6518 BEKL Project Financial Management

February 2018

Site Visit Report


Students’ Name Mui Jia Hong
Ng Yan Jiong
Yu Yoong Kent
Students’ ID number 1007930
1008359
1008614
Lecturer’s Name Ms. Nadirah
Due Date 20
th
April 2018

2. TABLE OF CONTENT

No Descriptions Page
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. PROJECT SUMMARY 3
3. OBSERVATION & QUESTIONS 4
4. ACTIVITIES PROGRESS OF WORK 5
5. MATERIAL ON SITE 6
6. PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 7
7. SITE VALUATION PROCESS 9
8. CONCLUSION 10

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1. INTRODUCTION
The site visit event was organized by our lecturer Ms Nadirah held on 18
th
April 2018 at Mukim
Morib construction site, which is located at Daerah Kuala Langat, Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Before going to construction site, all the safety precautions gave by our lecturer such as safety
helmet and safety shoes. Then base on the plan, all students gathered at college around 8:30am
and we reached to the construction site around after an hour journey by van and own car. After
arrival to the site and meeting with the people in charge of guiding us, a short brief about the
project was given by Mr. Lee and his colleagues to start the tour around the site.

The development name of the construction we visited is Morib Bay. It is a project of developing
water theme park, 22 storey of hotel building and semi-D house. The construction of this
development was started from November 2015 and is expected to be completed by May 2020.
The contract value (without hotel and semi-D house) of this Morib Bay construction is
approximately RM63, 217,500.00.

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The objectives of site visit are to:
 Experiencing and learning more about construction site environment that will face after
becoming a Quantity Surveyor and entering construction industry.
 Understand the basic of the construction process and witness the usage of construction
equipment’s on site including mechanical plants.
 Awareness of awareness of the importance of safety on site and understanding of safety
problems and site conditions.
 Asking questions from the people in charge and people working at construction site to
gain more information and learn from their experiences.
 To gain experience in building materials science

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2. PROJECT SUMMARY

Project Title: CADANGAN PEMBANGUNAN “WATER
PARK” DI ATAS SEBAHAGIAN LOT
13213 (GERAN 314497) (SELUAS 22.0
EKAR), MUKIM MORIB, DAERAH
KUALA LANGAT, SELANGOR DARUL
EHSAN.
Contract Sum (without hotel): RM 63,217,500.00
Construction Period: 1
st
November 2015 – 23
rd
May 2020
Client: Sentoria Morib Bay Sdn Bhd
Architect: SAM Arkitek Perunding
C&S: HTM Consultants Sdn Bhd
M&E: ICL Associates Sdn Bhd
QS: NIL (in house)
Contractor: Sentoria Bina Sdn Bhd

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3. OBSERVATION & QUESTIONS
Earthworks - From the site, we observe that the soils are mainly black soil, which is good
nutrients for plantation. We also know that this development site was used for plantation
purpose as it is surrounded by all the plantation. The soil is quite soft in this area as Kent from
Sentoria told us that the piling had been driven for 42 m with un-set conditions, meanings that
the piles still can be driven down with further depth. Crusher run are used for temporary access,
otherwise our car will be very difficult to drive through in the soft soils.
Structural Work – Y40 – high tensile reinforcement bars are used in the upper floor beam, as
the beams are wider (1.2m) and deeper (1.8m) than conventional beams. The reason for using
this special designed rebars is due to the 9m of the ceiling height, which need stronger support
of that beam. In addition, the upper floor slab design is suspended slab, means that the slab is
sitting on the beam instead of non-suspended slab, which is inappropriate design for upper floor.
We had also observed that most of the columns are using metal formwork, this is because the
column size is very big and it needs very good supportive formwork to avoid concrete falling
out. In addition, column is in vertical position, which is difficult for concreting works, thus
metal formwork can prevent the concrete from falling out when site workers pouring concrete.
Most importantly, we have observed that all the steel bars are connecting with each other, such
as the bottom layer of the BRC must connect with the rebar of beams, and the rebar for all the
columns are used to connect to upper columns so we saw that many rebars from the columns
are exposed, these rebars are used to lap with the rebars of subsequent structure.
We were informed that one pile cap is around 50 -60 k including the spun piles as the pile caps
are very big, which might need 50-60 m3 of concrete to pour. So it is quite surprising for
knowing this fact about the site foundation.
Health & Safety – The scaffolding was purposely designed to support the soffit slab of upper
floor due to the 9m ceiling height. This is to ensure the safety of workers to prevent the upper
slab formwork collapsing. Since there is no staircase, the scaffolding is temporarily used for a
platform to access to upper floor. We observed that the site workers using 4 steel round hollows
to fix on the ground with nails, thus the platform is safe and steady enough for people to access
upper floor. Most of the workers are wearing the safety helmets and safety boots, because heavy
materials can hurt your head and nails can hurt your foot.

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4. ACTIVITIES PROGRESS OF WORK
The workers are installing BRC steel bars

The worker is bending the steel bar

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5. MATERIALS ON SITE
High Tensile Bars Y40, which is special and different from conventional rebars. This kind of
rebar need special designed of bar cutter machine to bend and cut.
Cement block are placed under the BRC so that there’s spacing cover between steel and slab,
which is compulsory in construction industry to avoid strength failure. There’s mild steel chair
to support when there are two layers of BRC design. Without M.S chairs, the strength of the
slab is not strong enough when both BRC stick together (steel is far away from the upper of
the concrete slab).

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6. PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
Excavator to excavate on site. This excavator is used to excavate the earth in order for piling
contractor to cut off the pile heads after all the spun piles had been driving in to the ground.
The excavator mainly is used to excavate but sometimes site workers need excavator to move
heavy things or help for concreting works.

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This tower crane is mainly used for high rise as the normal crane has limitation to move
construction materials from ground to higher floor. Normally, plywood, rebars, BRC, bricks,
sand, cements and all necessary construction materials for finishes works need this machine to
move up so that the construction progress will not be delayed.

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7. SITE VALUATION PROCESS
Document required
1. Green cards for all the visitors to site
2. Approval letter for site visit from the institute to the company
3. Construction project’s drawing for reference

Parties Involve
1. Site Quantity Surveyors
2. Safety and Health Officer
3. Site Security
4. Lecturers
5. Students

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8. CONCLUSION
We were excited about this site visit event since when we were informed by the lecturer during
the middle of the semester. After visiting the construction site, there many valuable information
and knowledge gained by our group. First of all, we have a chance of experience the life and
the working environments being a Quantity Surveyor. We realized that working at a
construction site is much more difficult than we thought, a lot of risks involved and the weather
is hot usually, thus a series of precautions must be taken to work in this type of working
condition.
Besides that, we have learnt a lot of things by identifying different types of construction
materials and their uses, and also learning a lot about construction process and methods that
are used in Malaysia.
On the other hand, it is good experience for learning through site visit with the explanation
from seniors. It was impressed that one of the senior – Kent knows a lot of the construction
knowledge even though he is only Quantity Surveyor. He said that if you are actively and learn
with passion of your work, then you will learn very fast and work happily. Measurement will
become much easier once you have the real experiences of the construction method that they
used in the site. For example, the area for formwork, the design of the rebar and etc.
Lastly, this site visit helped us for better understanding what we are going to face in future and
also, giving our better understanding about construction to help us during our study. In overall,
it was a great fun and experience for our group.