Site Management & Logistics Report

This coursework is about developing a ‘Site Management and Logistics Report’ for the works under the ground level of the provided case project scenario. You have been appointed as a new site manager on the project shown in Appendix 1 and your Regional Project Director at headquarters is concerned about how the work is going to unfold and requires some reassurance in a form of ‘Site Management and Logistics Report’. The design is at the beginning of RIBA Stage 3 and you have recently received a Revit model of the project from the architect. According to the desk study: (i) the water table at the location is expected to be at 3.5m below original ground level; and (ii) the stratigraphy of the soil layers are expected as:

(a)Layer 1 – 1.5m of loose to medium dense sand;

(b) Layer 2 – 6m of dense sand;

(c) Layer 3 – Organic peat and silty clays with average thickness of 2m;

(d) Layer 4 – Very dense sand with thickness varying from depth of 13 to 19m; (e) Layer 5 – Stiff clay inter-bedded with sand strips – 7m.; (f) Layer 6 – Argillite-weathered rock. A piled raft foundation is currently being considered for this mixed-use building (see the Revit model). As a site manager in charge of the project, identify the specific problems concerned with logistics and site management that are likely to be faced by your team in carrying out the works under the ground level, and propose appropriate solutions which need to be considered before the project commences. The report has to reveal the logic behind the proposed site layout and logistics with a consideration of the constraints as well as the construction methods that are thought to be employed to undertake the works under the ground level.