Construction

• Activities of the Construction Industry

  • Building-Commercial, residential, educational and health properties
  • Civil Engineering- Complex ideas into reality
  • Building Services-Tunnels, Roads, Airports, Dams
  • Utilities - Contribution to maintaining the operation of building
• Large Projects


  • Victoria Square, Modern Dwellings
• Small renovations, addition


  • of a room
  • Apartments
• Internal Structures


  • Walls divided into rooms
  • Cellular
  • Portal Frame
  • Sole or base Plate
• Internal Structures


  • Brick, Block, factories + Warehouses
  • Concrete + stone
  • Steel, Concrete +Timber
• External Structures


  • Brickwork
  • Timber Framed
  • Cladding
  • Breather Membrane
• Rectangular Frame Structure


  1. Crane needed

  2. Network of beams and colums joined together

  3. Carries total load

  4. Steel + Concrete
• Resources Consideration


  • Mortgage
  • Bank Loan
  • Government funding
  • Machinery
  • Plant
  • Equipment
  • Labour
  • Materials
• Quality Control


  Testing, Ordering and storage
• Health & Safety


  • HASAWA-Health and Safety at Work order (NI) 1978
  • Electricity At Work
  • Substances Hazardous to Health At Work
  • Noise At Work
  • Height At Work
  • Welfare Facilites
• Health & Safety Responsibilities

  • Employers
  • Employees
  • Self Employed
  • Designers, Manufacturers and suppliers
• Safety Equipment


  • Safety goggles
  • Hand Protection
  • Face masks
  • Ear defenders
• Safety Signs


  • Prohibition-Do NOT
  • Mandatory You MUST
  • Warning-Be alture