09/11/2020

SBEC 4763

Site Mobilization & Demobilization

FACILITATOR
ASSOC. PROF. Sr. DR. WAN YUSOFF WAN MAHMOOD
Email: [email protected]
HP: +60 19 755 8088

Site Mobilisation
• Involves the movement of staffs,
equipment and materials to the
jobsite.

“carries out the task of allocation,

distribution and movement of staff
and plant and machinery in
accordance with the deployment
planning suitable for various
geographic regions”
(www.ccclindia.com)

Site Mobilisation
• Mobilization shall include all
activities and costs for
transportation of personnel,
equipment and supplies/materials
to the site, establishment of offices,
buildings and other necessary
facilities for the Contractor’s
operations at the site.

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Site Demobilisation
• Demobilization shall include all
activities and costs for
transportation of personnel,
equipment and supplies/materials
not used in the Contract, including
the disassembly, removal and site
clean-up of any offices, buildings or
other facilities assembled on the
site for the Contract.

Scope of Mobilisation

Encompasses Construction Site

those services Support
used to help
the
construction, Factors that
assembly, affect field
inspection, test, personnel and
operation and their families
demonstration
functions at the Personnel
field site. Factors

Scope of Mobilisation
Transportation
Communication Power

??? Field Site Test Support

Support Equipment

Fire Heavy
Protection Workshops Equipment

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Communication
• It may be as simple as one telephone or as
complex as a satellite relay network.
• Purpose: to provide a means of transmitting
intelligence that will meet the requirements of
the site.
• Communicating can be done by voice, as in
telephoning commands, relaying information,
or receiving verbal reports, or by utilizing data
such as code, teletype, telefax, telephoto, or
television.
• Example: sites should have sufficient lines and
extensions at the required contact points so
that communications will not become
jammed.

Transportation
• Adequate transportation are required to
move hardware, mail, and personnel to,
from, and around the site.
• Example: a vehicle can be rented and run
by a field site driver, or preferably the bus
and driver can be furnished as a complete
service under a subcontract.
• Plans will have to be made to control
vehicles usage such as trip tickets indicating
the destination, the time the car left the
site, expected back and the mileage
covered on the trip.

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Power
• Purpose: to supply site electricity.
• Example: for isolated field sites, portable power
units are used which consist of generators driven
by either gasoline or diesel motors to provide
anywhere from 1 to 10 kilowatts of power. During
operation, oil and gasoline must be brought in.
• Competent mechanics and electricians are
needed to operate, maintain and overhaul the
equipment.
• Thus spare parts such as fan belts, oil filters,
radiator hoses will have to be stored at the site
including mechanic’s tools and welding
equipment.

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Water Systems
• Option: either it may have to be brought in
by truck, pumped directly from a nearby lake
or river or well (a well as to be drilled which
entails a search for a suitable location, drilling
and casing the well, installing a pump and
storage tank and laying pipe to distribute the
water to the areas needed).
• Plans must be made to procure, install,
operate and maintain equipment, to train
personnel, and to analyze and treat the
water for bacteria or chemicals that would
be harmful to personnel and equipment.

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Test Support Equipment

• Instruments: telescopes,
theodolites, transits, and high-
speed cameras.
• Example: utilization of
electromagnetic equipment, the
particular radio frequencies must
be cleared with the range
frequency officer or with the
local office.

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Heavy Equipment
• Example: tractors, bulldozers, cranes, or road
scrapers.
• Information on the use of the equipment and
on the site environment should be collected
such as the type and weight of loads a
crane will have to handle, the amount of dirt
a shovel will have to dig.
• Maintenance in the use of heavy equipment
is necessary i.e. moisture in the tropics will
cause leather and rope to deteriorate,
cables and other metal parts to rust, and
electrical controls to become so coated with
fungus.

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Workshops
• Example: a woodworking shop (equipped
with a small rotary say, a power sander,
and electric drill, hand tools, and supplies
such as nails); a metal shop (equipped with
various metal-working tools, and raw stock
of different metals, both in bars and in
sheets).
• Workshop can be either separate shops or
a single one with the capability to handle
all work may be used, depending on the
demand for the facility and its size.

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Fire Protection
• Fire fighting equipment should be adequate to
meet any site emergency.
• Example: fire truck with pumping capability,
water or carbon dioxide tanks, ladders, and
sufficient hose to reach various site areas;
different types of fire extinguishers; and trained
fire fighting personnel.
• The facility may never be used, but its
availability at full efficiency is an insurance to
property and human life that cannot be
overestimated.

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Scope of Mobilisation
Food Housing

Personnel
Factor

Medical
???
Facilities

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Housing
• Either housing for men and their families; or
barracks or similar housing for single men
(not more than two or three men per
room).
• Housing can be divided into 2 categories:
on-site and in-town.
• Criteria: furnished rooms and houses, clean,
well-heated or air-cooled rooms, bath
facilities, a reasonable amount of privacy
for each man (comfortable).

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Foods
• For far away site: field kitchen has to
be procured and either a cook hired,
for food cannot be trucked in, it may
be possible to supply it by air drop or
helicopter.
• Sites near town: go for good local
restaurant or cafeteria, when the
eating places are 10 to 15 miles away,
crew’s vehicles may be used to make
a scheduled run for lunch.

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Medical Facilities
• Are there a doctor and a hospital
within easy reach?
• What arrangements must be made to
utilize them?
• Consequences: when a death occurs
among field personnel or their families,
the whole field crew can become
demoralized.

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Site Mobilization Process

• First, gather all information
necessary to assist
mobilization

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• Compliance with
law (import • Preliminary review of
duties, taxation, site data
Factory and • Initial Liaison
Machinery Act, • Physical environment
control of noise • Operational conditions
and vibration) • Site survey follow-up

Study the Study the Study the

Contract Specification Job

1. Statement of work
2. Site plans
3. Planning sub-contractor work
4. Approval of site planning
5. Obstacles to site planning

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Study the Contract

• Contract – A written agreement
between parties involved
• What to look?
§ Condition of contract e.g. compliance
with the law (import duties, taxation,
Factory and Machinery Act, control of
noise and vibration)
§ Special provision to conditions of
contract
§ Preliminaries e.g. Site visit
§ Bill of Quantities e.g. piling equipment

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Study the Specification

• Description: a detailed, exact statement of
particulars, especially a statement
prescribing materials, dimensions, and
quality of work for something to be built,
installed or manufactured (Farlex, 2005).
• Purpose:
§ Understand the limitation e.g. use materials
of Malaysian origin.
§ Identify the specific requirement e.g. the
equipment become property of contractor
or client at the end of the contract.

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Study the Job

• What to look?
§ Initial liaison
§ Preliminary review of site data e.g.
topography - we need the
information to plan the suitable
location of mixer plant, cable ways
and buildings.
§ Physical environment e.g. the physical
conditions and related factors which
have an important bearing upon
construction procedure.

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Study the Job

§ Operation condition e.g. we need
to do an excavation work so as to
develop a well-graded space on
which building for material storage
can be erected OR determine
certain types of plants, whether they
be of the type involving
transportation by air, ground or on
water.
§ Site survey follow-up

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SITE MOBILISATION

• Then, convert the

information into action
plan

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Checklist of Local Factors

Topography Climate Housing Labor
Plant layout Temperature facilities Regulation
Storage areas Seasons Nearest town Wage scales
Spoil areas Rainfall Sanitation Compensation
Drainage Mud/Dust Food supply Availability
Fire and police
Geology Property Power, fuel and Public relations
Subsoil Adjacent water Owners’
Ground water owners Kinds policies
Caves Boundaries Sources Local
Access Capacities purchases
Rock
Purchase/Rent Rates Visitors
Physical
character als Storage Public liability
Solution Dumping rights Local contracts
channels Fire hazards Political
structure

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Jobsite Mobilization Checklist

• Site and site service
§ Site utilization plan
§ Temporary fence, protection
§ Guard service
§ Temporary electric
§ Temporary water
§ Dumpster, disposal arrangements
§ Progress photograph service
§ Testing laboratories (soils, concrete,
steel/welding
§ Weather information phone numbers

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Jobsite Mobilization Checklist

• Site offices and office equipment
§ Facility type (trailers etc.)
§ Number of offices
§ Temporary facilities (Air-con, lighting & power,
telephone/portable phones, lavatories, water)
§ Office furniture (desks, chairs, stools)
§ Office equipment and supplies (computer,
copier, fax)
§ Office safety and security equipment (fire &
intrusion alarm, fire extinguishers)
§ Sign & notice (“Site Office”, “Keep Out” etc.)

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Jobsite Mobilization Checklist

• Administration
§ Project manuals and log books
§ Supply of job forms (daily site reports,
visitor sign-in sheets)
§ Start-up project files (contract)
§ Start-up sub-contractor submission
(subcontract & purchase orders)
§ Project directory

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Jobsite Mobilization Checklist

• Contract Execution
§ Permits
§ Billing procedure
§ Change order procedure
§ Job meetings
§ Resources estimates
§ Job cost report
§ Baseline construction schedule
§ Baseline cash-flow projection

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