Question

Assignment title: Construction Project Planning

Develop the List of Activities, encode, and describe them, of a Warehouse project

Answer 1

Warehouse is a structure construced for storage of goods and commodities in large scale in an efficient and planned way. Warehouse utlises skilled and systematic contruction techniques to resource safe and easy storage of various goods like agricultural produce, industry finished goods, raw materials, metal ores, stacks, machinery etc in large scale.

Following activities are involved in planning and construction of warehouse project:

• Purpose and type of storage: The analysis of purpose of warehouse and the type of goods or commodities which are needed to store in it are first analysed and classified. There can be many types such as those requiring extra facillities like cold storage, meat product storage , poultry storage, vegetable storage etc. Such warehouses need extra facillities like air-conditioning, routine cleaning and maintaince (in short interval). Some other storage facillities like cement stacking, construction material, iron and steel storage, raw materials not needing extra attention do not require such facillities. The basic requirement is systeemic stacking and efficient placement.

• Market studies and overview: Market studies and overview is done to examine the trends and expected benefits that could be earned from a warehouse. For an example the products which are required in often quantities in the vicinity of the warehouse prove to be economical. Like if a warehouse is constructed near an Iron and steel industry it will be beneficial to construct warehouse storing Iron ores near that place.

• Selection of site: Selection of site is done on the basis of needs to be fulfilled by the Projected warehouse. In addition to this construction materials and manpower, labour (skilled and unskilled) should be easily available at site. There should be clear access to warehouse from local roads and railways. It should be located away from zones of potential hazards like flooding, waterloging, radiation (nuclear plants), Fire prone areas, and should have good ventilated background.

• Construction Phase: Planning and scheduling is continously done to execute the project in time with optimum resources and cost. Planning should be properly done to withhold the purpose that warehouse need to serve and accordingly its design is made. All stakeholders must be clearly informed and attentive during construction.

• Completion and execution: All necessary actions should be taken as sson as construction is complete. Local authorities must be informed about all important aspects related to service and execution. During execution phase all manpower associated with it must be skilled and should have clear knowledge of thier requisite work. All storage must be systematically done and in a planned way.