4.2 Programme

4.2 Programme

By: Aaron Feng

The overall construction period for this Women Centre Project is scheduled for 24 months. This includes all the required skill trainings for different construction systems, safety knowledge training and special tool or machine operating training. Since this project aims to be the ‘prototype’ project for the local community, one of the key achievements is to let the local community have the ability to build by themselves in the future. Therefore, the overall construction has been breakdown into the following stages:

Figure 48 Construction stage sequence

Created by Aaron Feng (2021)

After the groundwork stage, we will begin the construction of cisterns and toilet room first. These are the two main service components for the project. Once they are completed, it can serve the people work on site by provide them water and sanitary. The details of the rain harvesting system and composting toilet system are well explained in the previous sections. The next stage is constructing the activity room. The main consideration for that is from structural aspects, the activity room is more difficult to build than the admin room and kitchen. While construct the activity room, we could have the international volunteers work together with the local community. Hence, the local community can gain the knowledge and skills to build the admin room and kitchen by themselves. Structurally, the admin room and kitchen are the shrink version of the activity room. By adopt this construction sequence, we can reduce the number of international volunteers required at the second half construction period, as we only need a few volunteers stay to monitor and supervise the rest of the construction activities.

As shown in figure 48, the relation between each stage is not necessarily finish to start. Some stages can start before the last stage is finished. For example, one of the tasks in the preliminary stage is to ‘Prepare made on-site material’. The made on-site materials are mainly bamboo and mudbrick. Both two materials require time to be dried or to be treated. The next task can start while waiting. The tasks involved with specialist contractors are highlighted in yellow (see appendix 1). Since the specialist contractors are very likely sourced from local, there might be language barrier when communicate between the volunteers and contractor regards of the system requirements. Therefore, these tasks are highlighted as it might cause unexpected delay. The completion date for the project is set at the 1st of Dec 2026. We included one month time allowance for the foreseeable delay such as: extreme weather and local festival celebrations.