Civil Engineering Project Management (4th Edition)
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• rainfall and runoff data;<br />
• details of special materials or equipment to be incorporated in the job;<br />
• addresses of authorities and personnel who have been written to about the<br />
job, such as the local planning authority, the district road engineer, the local<br />
building surveyor, the employer and his directors or councillors and staff;<br />
• a brief history of how the job came about and the dates and references of<br />
major decisions.<br />
• the pre-tender Health and Safety Plan.<br />
The compilation of this file of data can act as a check on the situation to date.<br />
A separate file of matters still outstanding is advisable. Once the resident engineer<br />
is appointed, everyone previously connected with the job will expect him<br />
to take responsibility for seeing that all site matters are done in due time. Thus<br />
the programme of construction to be agreed between the contractor and the<br />
engineer will be one of the documents carefully studied by the resident engineer,<br />
so that he can check it in detail for its consequences.<br />
The resident engineer must make sure he has with him a final copy of the<br />
contract documents as awarded.<br />
The site office<br />
Starting the construction work 123<br />
The resident engineer may have a choice as to where his office should be<br />
placed. If so, it should be placed so that, from it, the main traffic in and out<br />
of the site can be observed. It is a mistake to choose a situation which overlooks<br />
the job but which does not have a view of the main entrance. Little<br />
worthwhile of the job can be seen from a distance, whereas even a distant<br />
view of the entrance will enable the engineer or his staff to notice a number of<br />
happenings – the delivery of materials, plant going off site, and when callers<br />
are about to descend (especially the employer).<br />
The office itself can range from a simple hut to a veritable barracks, according<br />
to the size of the job. On a moderate sized job where the resident engineer<br />
has two or three engineers to assist him he will need<br />
• his own room;<br />
• a drawing office for engineers;<br />
• a secretary’s office and filing room;<br />
• a washroom and toilet;<br />
• a small kitchen area where hot drinks can be made;<br />
• a room where wet clothes can be stripped off and hung up to dry;<br />
• a small store room for surveying and other equipment.<br />
On many civil engineering jobs a soils and materials testing laboratory is necessary,<br />
and this is more conveniently placed near the resident engineer’s offices<br />
than elsewhere. Outside the entrances to offices an essential item of equipment<br />
is a boot scraper, preferably with a small area of concrete with a hose-pipe<br />
water supply for cleaning gumboots.