BUILDERS PLANT AND TEMPORARY

WORKS AND SERVICES

Lecture 2

Introduction
One of the most important resources to be managed is
machineries and equipments.
The cost of using machineries / equipments may varies
from the range of 20% - 40% of total construction cost.
Some types of projects are labour intensive while
majority of infra-structure works are extensively using
machineries / equipments.

Introduction (contd)
Based on substantial cost involved, thus construction
machineries / equipments must be properly
managed.
Appropriate planning and acquiring of machineries
can help to reduce or avoid the problems face during
construction stage.

Planning of Machineries and

Equipments
Planning and scheduling of machineries / equipments
must be indicated on the work programme.
Requisition on acquiring must be made once the
decision has been made to use a particular
machinery.
Analysis of levelling on the usage of machineries /
equipments can guide the managers to make critical
decision.

Planning of Machineries and

Equipments
Undoubtedly, critical activities will be given the most
priority.
If during a particular day, 2 or more activities require
the use of same equipment, hence priority must be
given to the critical activity.
Despite careful planning and acquisition, problems
may still occur during construction stage.

Problems related to Machineries and

Equipments
Several problems faced by the contractors during the
constructions progress.
Among these problems are highlighted in Figure 1.
However, the important things to do is to acquire the
machineries / equipments needed.

UNAVAILABILITY

BREAKDOWN
No Maintenance

No
Requisition

Unaware
of Market
Availability

PROBLEM
RELATED TO
MACHINERIES &
EQUIPMENTS

Several
Activities

Uneconom
ic age
No
Security

Over
Usage

No
Hoarding
Unskilled
Operations

Unplanned
Under Capacity

STOLEN
INEFFICIENT

SHORTAGES

Figure 1 : Problems Related to Machineries and Equipments

Acquisition of Machineries and

Equipments
The decision to acquire construction machineries /
equipments has to be considered seriously cause the
capital required is very high. The cost of some
machineries can be in the range of several hundred
thousand to Million Ringgit.
If decided to purchase and own a particular machine,
one has to take into account services such as
maintenance, rental, cost account, etc.

Acquisition of Machineries and

Equipments
The decision to acquire construction machineries /
equipments has to be considered seriously cause the
capital required is very high. The cost of some
machineries can be in the range of several hundred
thousand to Million Ringgit.
If decided to purchase and own a particular machine,
one has to take into account services such as
maintenance, rental, cost account, etc.

Acquisition of Machineries and

Equipments

There are several factors to be considered if one

decided to purchase and own a particular machine.
(i) Output Capacity beside capacity of the
machine, availability of skill operator has to be
taken into account.
(ii) Market Demand before purchasing it is good to
consider market demand so that the purchasing
is not only for a project but can also be rented
out.

DIGGER & BACKHOE

multiple usage it finds its
application
Building highways, airports
and roads.
Construction of dams, water
and sewer systems.
Constructing commercial
buildings, housing
developments, hospitals,
schools and office building.
Helps in mining and offshore
drilling.
Excavating, digging, small
demolitions, landscaping and
preparation of construction
sites.

Bulldozer
Like any bulldozer scrape dozer too has
tractor, ripper and blade as the main part. It
uses scraper for doing various functions
which in turn is controlled by joy stick,
monitor panels and pedals. The whole
mechanism of the dozer depends on the
principle of the hydraulic systems.

Applications
Land clearing and land leveling
Preparing construction sites
Helps in the construction of roads
Construction and maintenance of canals and
dams
Removal of snows
Other smaller and bigger civil engineering
projects.

Scrapers
Scraper is an important mechanical
equipment that is used for excavating,
digging and hauling of materials. Scraper
is available in different sizes and
configuration depending on the nature of
the project. It is one of the most versatile
equipment
that
performs
different
functions single handedly.
Application
It helps in preparing the ground for the
new loads of solid waste that constantly
arrive.
Helps in preparing work at landfills.
It digs, the site, loads, hauls and dumps
the wastes materials and helps in
preparing the sites for construction.
It is also used in road construction etc.

Crane
Armed with heavy carriage
capacities and powerful engines,
the construction crane finds
their applicability in numerous
projects like.

Application
At construction sites, cranes are
used to lift steel, concrete and
other materials.
i. Construction of bridges.
ii.Construction of ports.
iii.Lifting
heavy
industrial
devices.
iv. Used in lifting of containers
on sea ports etc.

Batching Plant

Equipment used at a concrete batching plants includes soils, weight hoppers

conveyors, mixer engines, and auxiliary generators. The raw material like cement,
sand and aggregate are batched and mixed into slightly moisture concrete. The
required concrete is fed via conveyor belt into the block machine. Boom Scrapper is
used for pulling the material towards the gates for batching of aggregates. Cement
Hopper with Screw Conveyor, concrete mixer reversible drum, weight batcher with
precision scales for aggregate and cement are some of the other equipments that are
used in concrete batching plants.

TEMPORARY WORKS AND SERVICES