Construction

Equipment & Methods

References
• Main References:
– Gransberg, D.D, Popescu, C.M,Ryan, C.C, (2006)
Equipment management for engineers, estimators
and owners, Tailor & Francis
– Nunnally, S.W., (2007)Construction methods and
management, Prentice hall
– Peurifoy, R.L, Schnexnayder,
C.J,Shavira,A.,(2006),Construction Planning,
equipment and methods, Mc.grawhill
• Supported references:
– French Society for trenchless technology, (2004),
Microtunneling and Horizontal drilling, FSTT
Project life cycle
Type of construction Industry

Source: Jackson, 2003

• (Commercial) Building Project
• Infrastructure project
(Elevated)
• Infrastructure project (Underground)
• Infrastructure project (On-shore)
• Infrastructure project (Off-shore)
Planning for Construction
• Site layout
Machines & Methods make it possible
• From Manual to automation
Earthwork equipment
• Graphical representation
• Cut and Fill
• Earthwork quantity
• Earthwork Sequence
• Compacting equipment

Sheep foot

Compactor
• Grading equipment

Motor grader
• Grading equipment

Scraper
• Spreading equipment

Buldozer
• Excavating equipment

Back hoe
Shoevel
• Loading & Hauling equiments

Backhoe Loader
• Hauling equiments

Dump truck
Truck classification
• Method of dumping the load: rear, bottom, side-dump
• Type of frame: rigid frame / articulated
• Type of engine: gasoline, diesel, butane, or propan
• Kind of drive: two, four, six wheel drive
• Number of wheel and axel
• The class of material hauled: earth, rock, coal
• Capacity: Gravimetric (ton), Volumetric (Cubic yard)
Advantage/ disadvantage
• Lifting equiments

(Static)Tower Crane
• Lifting equiments

Dragline Mobile Crane

Concrete Equipments
• Concrete mixer
• Concrete pump
Pile driving Equipments
• PDM (Hammer & Jacking)
Drilling Equipments
• Congested Underground Infrastructure

• Problem encountered using Open Cut method:

– Surface disruption, air pollution, social impact, traffic
problem, etc.
Open cut Vs Trenchless

Site Normal Open Cut

Condition Method

If depth
Sensitive
Depth Rank 1 Is shallow
Classification
bellow pipe
Rank
Not Shallow
2a,b < 3m above
Rank 3
Ground pipe Microtunnel
water Method
> 3m above
pipe Difficult for
Both Methods
• Micro-Tunnel boring machine (mTBM)

pipes Drilling machine Jacking machine

Application of Pipe Jacking

Crossing under river

Congested
Urban area

curve
TBM methods video

Microtunneling Boring
Machine (mTBM)

Microtunneling
(Pipe Jacking)
Next week assignement
• Decide a machine (e.g: Buldozer, Tower crane, etc.)
• Describe in detail your machine:
– Machine picture and dimension
– Machine operation
– Machine productivity
– Productivity calculation
– Etc...
• Make a presentation in PPT