Failure to plan the site layout in advance is a prime cause of operational inefficiency, and can increase the overall cost of a project substantially. In the absence of a precise site layout plan, the following problems may occur:
Material stacks wrongly located. Materials arriving on site are off-loaded into what someone guesses to be the correct location. This problem may involve double or triple handling of materials to another location. For example:
- They may stocked over a drainage line or near the edge of excavation;
- They are too far from the work area;
- They are too remote from the hoist or not within the radius of the crane;
- They impede the smooth flow of work traffic across the site;
- Their delivery was wrongly phased and they are not needed until much later in the
project;
- They are fragile.
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