Importance Of Inspection In Construction

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Construction project involved many parties and construction participants. Thus, there should be much work to be done along the process to complete the construction project. Currently almost all of construction inspection activities are done using paper-based blueprints. Issues on the manual current practice of site inspection are expensive, slow and high probabilities of error. In addition, the delivery of information to the sub-contractor also has done using paper-based blueprints and hard-copied reports.
Knowing that disadvantages of manual inspection that had been use, some researchers see this opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of inspection. All of these problems can be done by improving the capabilities of inspectors …show more content…

Inspection of building construction work

Inspection of construction must be done to make sure the building construction work follow the requirements or not inspection of construction must follows the approval of application and the builder’s request. In the inspection stages, the inspector must know the codes and guidelines required to be examined at each stages of inspection. The codes and guidelines give the stages at which the inspectors are expected to examine the work and to approve the work examined so that the contractor can move to the following stages of work. According to (Wason), the following are the work that should be examined:
A. Building Layout.
The actual layout of the buildings should be checked against the approved plans. Before beginning the check, the Building Inspector should ask to produce a copy of the approved plans to the person in charge of the site. The site boundaries should be marked while the site boundaries may be difficult to check by the Building Inspector, and the Inspector should satisfy himself that the construction is within the required distances from the site boundaries and is in accordance as the approved …show more content…

To produce concrete of the strength required by the Guidelines, concrete tests should be carried out to assist the builder.

D. Ring Beam
The Building Inspector should check to see that the size used is as the approved plans and in accordance with the recommendations of the Guidelines and adequate reinforcement. The quality of the concrete should be examined. Bad quality of concrete produced if the formwork was badly constructed. It is expected that the Inspector will guide the small builder in the construction of adequate formwork for ring beams.

E. Roof.
The Inspector responsible is to ensure that the roof structure is constructed as designed, and to see that the roof plates are properly bolted to the ring beam and that the rafters are connected to the plate by acceptable connectors.
The roof sheeting should be connected to the rafters and purlins by screws because screws provide better resistance to high winds. The roof sheeting itself should be supported at intervals as shown in the Guidelines so that there is no sagging

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