SITE DIARY - CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
THE SITE
58 Salisbury Avenue IG11 9XR The site is a terraced house on Salisbury Avenue Barking which is under reconstruction due to client requirements. The site originally had 3 bedrooms with a kitchen space and an upstairs bathroom. However, the main requirements of the client was the fact that she wanted a rear extension for more space and a loft conversion for another two bedrooms. During our first site visit the building was at its initial stages. The progression of this site will be seen through this site diary project.
THE TEAM
SITE ORIGINATION /CLIENT BRIEF
Initially before the client had bought the house it had two floors, the ground floor and the first floor. The ground floor accommodated a living room, a kitchen and a back garden. The first floor accommodated three large bedrooms as well as a bathroom. However, the client chose to refurbish and reconstruct the house for more space for his family of 6. The client therefore required a bigger space and therefore wanted an extension on the ground floor and a loft extension, creating a third floor. My main focus of my site diary project was therefore the rear extension as well as the loft extension too. I chose to focus on this within my project as I wished to see how the site team constructed this from scratch and how their regular meetings with the client benefitted their ability to meet the client requirements. The contract agreement shown on the left shows the specification in which the contractor and his team must meet. Also, it must be ensured that the architect provides successful drawings which meet the clients requirements. The contract therefore protects both parties and ensures a clear specification which must be met. TIMESCALE : 15TH OCTOBER – 28TH JANUARY CONTRACT VALUE FOR THE PROJECT : £180 000
SITE PLANNING
SITE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
DRIVING FORCE OF THE PROJECT
In majority of the cases of a site project the main driving force tends to be time. This is usually to meet the schedule and the requirement of the client. However, in this site diary project from having an informal conversation with the client, she had said that although she would like to move in by the end of January 2019, she is no rush as she would prefer the quality of the project to be up to her standards and meet her requirements. As this is a family home and the client already has an existing family home she is in no rush to move into the new house yet. Thus, the main driving force of this project is the quality. Although, the quality of the house is the driving force, other factors like the time and cost also play a role.Less time must be spent on site in order to result to lower costs. Moreover, prefabrication is a successful way in allowing less time on site. This is due to it only requiring assembly on site. I.e. Fitted showers and sinks.
The site diary project required us in pairs to find a site which is under construction. In order to do so we had to get in contact with either the site managers or architects. The communication process could either be conducted through email or in person. I therefore had created notes on a list of emails as well as sites which we had to visit or get in contact with. This therefore helped us to keep track of how many emails we had sent and how many sites we had visited in person. In order for this process to be successful we had to ensure that we were professional as a pair and made the site manager or architect aware on the fact that we were insured by the University of Westminster. Also, emails which were sent out required an attachment of our brief for this semester. Hence, this allowed the site manager or architect to understand the site diary project.