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Since a construction work is complicated, including hundreds of jobs, it means it will need more than one kind of worker. Construction work will always need many workers ready to be placed in every position. Workers like bricklayer, carpenter, concrete finisher, electrician, plumber and steel fixer are some worker with high risk challenge.

Those workers will need equipments to protect them from risk or hazards may occur in the work place, since they work in a dangerous industry. Mainly, construction worker will need to wear hard hats or helmets to protect their head from any hard or sharp or heavy thing could fall to their head. Also a pair of steel toe boots to protect the feet from stepping on sharp or hot things. In addition, a pair of gloves will protect their hand and make them hold things stronger.

Other protective equipments needed are goggles to protect the eye from dusts or flare, or heat. Steel fixer will use welding mask to protect their face when they work. Clothes with bright colorings will make the workers easy to be seen especially in night works like road or runway paving. Make sure your worker wear their safety equipment when they work in your construction project.

The complexity of construction work requires a party to handle the management, planning the overall work, scheduling the time, calculating the risk might happen, coordinating parties joined in the construction work and controlling the project to meet the client’s requirements. It is called the construction management. Its function is to specify the objectives and plans of the project and make every party joined clearly understand that. The specified things include: the budgeting, the schedules, even selecting the participants of the project.

Construction management will maximize the efficiency of every resources used on the project, like the equipment, the worker, the materials and the transportation cost. Using the efficient usage of resources, construction management supports the result of the project to meet the quality required by the consumers. Establishing effective communication and conflict resolving mechanism is one part construction management’s role, since construction works is very complicated and susceptible of conflicts.

Construction management nowadays also considers the safety aspect of the project. Several risks can occur when the project is on progress, like some natural disaster or confrontation from groups in community. The workers healthy and safety also the part of construction management considerations. Be sure to create a good construction management for your construction project.

Civil engineers and architects are tightly bonded with construction works. They design and calculate the infrastructure’s aspects like its strength, durability, stiffness, its resistance against natural disasters, and the economical aspect of a building. Construction is a process of building or assembling infrastructures.

Construction is not a single task, it consist of several chained activities. The process started with designing, like surveying the existing site, measuring some aspects, calculating the dimension of every element of the infrastructure and translates the numbers into some drawings. After designing, the project owner will take care of the financing and its legal aspects. Gathering the constructors, and after several meeting, the real construction started.

Procuring materials and equipments needed, gathering workers, controlling every steps of building the infrastructures from its very bottom will be done by the constructor with supervision from the owners. Until the infrastructure finished and ready to be used, the constructor will get about 95 percent of their payment, the rest will be an assurance for their working quality. If the infrastructure damaged during the maintenance period, the constructor will have the responsibility to repair, and the repairing cost will be taken from the 5 percent. If no claim of damage, the 5 percent will be given when the maintenance period is over.