Republic of the Philippines
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Main Campus, Sta, Mesa, Manila
College of Architecture Design and Built Environment
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY - 2
WOOD MASONRY STEEL
AND CONCRETE
Prepared by:
Ar. Maynard M. Muhi
MODULE 5
BUILDING TOUR
Learning Outcomes:
1. Be able to understand the on-site building
construction.
2. Be able to understand the process of building
construction.
3. Be able to understand the method of
construction.
BUILDING TOUR
Building Construction Process
The Building Construction Process From Start To
Finish
Step-1: Pre-construction
Things
The following things are involved in pre-
construction.
• Budgeting
• Founding
• Buying Land
• Surveying The Land
• Preparing Plan And Elevation
• Getting Approval From The Government
Authority
• Preparing All The Drawings
BUDGET These are some of the things that you need to have
budget for:
Buying land
Designing and planning the building
Getting building permission from government
authority
Project management cost
Building materials
Labor cost.
FOUNDING
Once you have prepared budgets, now think
about the source of funding.
You don’t need all the money at once. You
need them as you go through.
But it’s better to have the funding sources
ready. So that whenever you need money,
you can get them.
Not having proper funding sources can
hamper your project’s progress.
Buying Land:
If you already have land, that’s good.
If you don’t have one, here are some tips to
choose one:
Check the shape and orientation of the
land
Check the soil type
Existing roads
Accessibility to the plot
Essential service facilities
Restriction on building permissions.
What’s being built nearby
Privacy
Status of the existing structure.
Surveying The Land:
This is the initial surveying which is done to
mark the plot, and roads, and know the
condition of the land. Which is then used to
plan the building.
For surveying, you may need to hire a
surveyor.
But often, the architectural firm does this
thing.
Preparing Plan And
Elevation:
For this, you need to hire an architect or
contact an architectural firm.
There are huge things involved in planning
and designing a building. Some of them are:
• The requirements of the building owner
• The requirements of the government
authorities.
• Structural-related issues, etc.
• Considering all these things, the architect
then prepares plans and elevation of the
building and sends them to a structural
designer.
Preparing All The
Drawings:
To successfully complete the construction of a building,
you’ll need the following drawings:
Architectural Plan, Elevation, and
section
Structural drawing
Plumbing and sanitary drawing
Electrical drawing, and
HAVC drawing
Step-2: Mobilization And Ground-breaking
The actual building construction process is
started with this step. And, these are the
tasks you’ll do in this step:
• Hiring contractors
• Site cleaning and leveling
• Fence making
• Site office making
• Store making
• Labor-shed making
• Getting temporary power connection
• Ensuring water supply.
Step-3: Construction of Structure
a. Setting Out The Building
Plan:
Site Survey
Staking out
Layout batter boards
b. Excavation of Foundation
c. Installation of footing
reinforcement
d. Pouring of concrete on footing
e. Pouring of concrete on Column
Neck
f. Wall footing and CHB wall laying
g. Backfilling and Compaction
h. Start erecting the superstructure
i. Columns reinforcement
j. Column Formworks
TIMBER
PLASTIC ALUMINUM
k. Concrete Columns
l. Scaffolding & Shoring
m. Beams & Slab Reinforcement
3 4
m. Pouring of concrete on Slab
m. Pouring of concrete on Slab 2
4 5
3
m. Set of Concrete pump
Concrete mixer truck Mobile concrete pump
Pipes & Clamp
Stationary concrete pump Static Boom
n. Typical floors have the
same process.
• Column rebars
• Form installation
• Pouring of concrete
• Installation of forms
and scaffolding and
shoring for beams
and floor slab
• Utilities
• Pouring of concrete
• Removal of forms.
Step-4: Masonry Works / CHB works
o. Block wall laying
p. Plastering of Walls
Step-5: Architectural Finishing works
a. Painting
Step-5: Architectural Finishing works
b. Window
c. Ceiling works
d. Tiling works
e. Kitchen Cabinet
f. Staircase
g. Bedroom Cabinet
h. Sanitary Rough-in to Fixtures
i. Electrical Rough-in to Fixtures
j. Mechanical Rough-in to
Fixtures
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