Month: April 2018

Gas Station Construction Planning Essentials

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Gas station construction is amongst the most demanding constructional processes and requires the creation of well-designed and detailed plans. Gas stations have to be compatible with tight state/local regulations and ensure utmost convenience for their customers, besides being commercially viable. Many factors need to be determined in the conception of gas station construction and some of these include:

Location

Location or site selection is the most fundamental aspect of any gas station construction plan. The ideal property for gas or service stations should be such that they do not contravene any rules or policies regarding proximity to residential or educational facilities. There are many local administrations that prohibit the presence of fuelling stations near public spaces such as public libraries or institutions that have children and dependents.

Access

While developing a gas station construction plan, it is imperative to ensure that easy entrance and exit points are created for customers. This includes, planning the ideal number of curb cuts on the way to the fueling point and the dedicated frontage area along the streets.

* It is essential to create a certain margin from the adjacent properties since gas station construction, sometimes turns out to be a repeated process in the form of infrastructure updates and installation of new equipment.

* Congestion is often found at gas stations and creation of free access in the form of off-street parking facilities is a simple way to solve this issue.

Fuel-pumping Areas

A crucial factor governing the gas station construction process is the planned location of the fuel pump platforms. Their location often dictates the need of constructing canopies immediately or in the near future. Further, it has to be established whether the canopies have to be created in a movable or fixed format since, there might be plans for future development and widening of the fueling lanes.

Construction of Facility Walls

There are many state-based local administrations that have reservations against the creation of elevated service station walls and often scrutinize the distance of these walls from the street frontage. Example: At the time of conceptualizing gas station construction, it is crucial to decide the location of facilities like the automated car washing area. Often, local rules suggest that such noisy areas need to be separated from adjacent properties by masonry walls of a certain minimum height and thickness. Further:

* The location of the facility walls shouldn’t hinder the view along the ingress/egress areas of the service station since this directly hampers vehicular visibility and poses a threat to the safety of site.

* The material, texture and color of the walls should be compatible to provide maximum visibility during poor daylight or nighttime (in relation to the amount of artificial lighting).

Other Considerations For Gas Station Construction Planning

* The need for a solid or wired fenced wall to be erected along the site

* Requirement of exterior lighting and how it should be deflected away from nearby residential areas (if any)

* The need to place signs and provision of spaces for putting-up promotional displays

* The need to provide paved pathways along the driving, parking, service and storage areas

* Warehouse needs and the extent of stocking of inflammable products

* Dedicated spaces that are needed for parking rental trucks and trailers Creation of temporary canopies that might be needed for storage purposes.

Two Functional Essentials

Another aspect that has gained prominence in the last decade is creation of proper resources for water recycling and maintenance of air quality while planning a gas station construction.

* Water recycling systems refer to the disposal and re-use of water according to state or federal guidelines

* Air quality mechanisms refer to installation of equipments that control the amount of air entering/exiting through mechanical or natural vents and their ability to neutralize noxious air pollutants

Gas station construction is an exhaustive process and is best handled by professionals who are adept at handling structural planning and legal/procedural compatibility related issues.

How To Remove Construction Waste In A Professional Way

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A heap of waste lying on the road is not at all a tolerable site. There are many types of wastes. When some types of waste are degradable, the others are non-degradable. An area where waste management system is improper is unsuitable for living. If you are in the construction field, or rebuilding your house, construction debris disposal will be a matter of concern. But, today you dont have to worry about it. There are many garbage disposal companies that can assist in removing the debris and disposing. The disposal companies will have their own special machineries and equipments to remove the waste materials. Today commercial and residential homes are budding up everywhere, but professionals into the building business are sometimes unaware of the methods through which they can dispose construction garbage. Well, removal of concrete parts is a big job, if you are not using the right machineries. Rather than removing by yourselves it is better to hire a garbage removal company to do the task. They will have the right type of equipments that can break up the concrete and make it in to small pieces. Then will carry the concrete garbage away from your property without damaging anything.

Hiring a company is easy but needs some research. First of all, you should check whether the company has a valid license, and are they insured to perform heavy concrete removal jobs. Then check their experience in the field. If it is a budding waste management company then check its past history. With the introduction of many garbage disposal companies, Waste management Louisiana is carried out in a successful way.

How professional construction waste disposal companies work?

Big concrete structures cannot be broken into pieces with a small jackhammer. Suitable machinery is needed to cut the concrete of the garage, patio or the driveway. While planning to reconstruct a room or laying marble on the floor, people will be in a hurry to remove the old one. In the hurry-burry they will forget to close the main water connection, or gas and electric lines located on the reconstructing property. This will lead to mishaps.

By assigning the job to a professional waste removal company more than half of your job is completed. They will use machineries to break big concrete pieces in to small and use trash haulers or dumpster to remove construction debris from the site. Some companies use Construction Containers to collect the waste and dispose it later. Garbage disposal companies will have large trucks to carry waste from the main site to the area where it should be dumped. A highly experienced company can make you area look like a new place by removing all unwanted construction wastes in a tactful manner.

Many garbage removal companies can work for you at competitive prices. All you need is to do some research on the companies located near your area, their services, experience in the field and cost. Compare the services and cost of each company to select the best one.

Construction & Building Site Accidents

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Summary: An informative article about Construction and Building Site Accidents and Safety at the workplace

Safety on work sites is essential, not only for the sound health of employees, but also for the smooth working of the company. It is the duty of the employer to take care of the safety and health issues of its employees that may hamper them at their work place. Legally speaking, it is also necessary on the part of the employer to report incidents or accidents at the workplace and also pay the employee a contractual or a legal sick pay in case the employee is entitled for the same or if they need some time off from work because of some accident at the workplace. Working in office is still quite a safer option, but for those who are employed in construction firms, the risk for construction and building site accidents are even more.

Work-related diseases, accidents and incidents should all be reported by the employer to the Incident Contact Centre of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Death, disease, injuries and incidents, both major and minor, if it hampers the normal working of employees is entitled to be reported for sure. A risk assessment program should be conducted by the employer so as to see what precautions and changes are required in order to ensure safety on work sites for both visitors and employees. It is also a good idea for the employers to maintain an accident book that records all accident and injuries suffered by employees at the workplace for providing the claims for the benefit of employees. This also can help the employer track down the main cause of major accidents and reduce their possibility in future by taking various preventive measures for them.

There are personal injury compensation claims that can be asked for construction and building site accidents in case the employee succeeds in providing enough evidences to prove the cause of the accident to be the negligence of the employer. These claims helps an employee get a monetary compensation for the source of income if lost by them in future due to the accident at the workplace, expenses for the treatment of injuries and other such monetary issues that relate to the accident.

Hence, safety on work sites is the right of employees and the employer is entitled to provide it, so as to avoid unnecessary accidents and compensation claims by employees in future. Therefore, it is important for everyone to be aware of all such rights so as to stand for it at the time of need.

About the Author:

Ian Hass is owner of Excalibur Solicitors, an experienced UK law firm specialising in all forms of Compensation. Excalibur Solicitors handles claims for Accident Types including Whiplash Injury, Construction and Building Site Accidents and Accidents at Work compensation claims.

Construction Means Dust And Dust Can Cause Allergies. A Specialist Builders’ Clean Reduces The Risk

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Winning contracts has always been a highly competitive business for the Construction Industry so anything that can give a company the edge is to be welcomed.

One extra service that could help is completing the job with a specialist Builders’ Clean before hand-over.

It’s accepted that you’ll leave a clean and tidy completed project and these days most building workers know they have to clean up after any job they do.

On even the most tidily-managed jobs dust can be a problem and it can hang around in the air for weeks after completion of a new build.

Since dust is recognised as a major cause of allergies demonstrating to a client that you’ve done all you can to reduce the risk for the building’s eventual occupants could help add to your construction company’s good reputation so that you stand out from the competition.

Dust is actually made up of minute particles of bug fragments, mould spores, bits of plastic and other materials and can be a particular problem in the winter when doors and windows are kept closed. The tiny dust mites living in the dust are what cause the allergic reaction.

Dust allergies can result in symptoms ranging from asthma through itchy, watery eyes to repeated sneezing, eczema and a runny nose.

Of course there are many other causes of allergic reactions, some of them as a result of the various chemicals used in the making of carpets and laminates.

You will show your client that you’re willing to do that little bit extra and could earn a reference to promote your company in the future if you use a specialist Builders’ Clean after construction work, especially from a company that uses environmentally friendly, non allergenic cleaning products.

When you’re considering hiring a post-build cleaning service with this in mind there are a number of points you might want them to pay attention to.

You might want to list the materials that have been used during construction and check they have the correct materials to clean them to ensure surfaces are not damaged. But you might also ask whether the cleaning materials they use are environmentally friendly and preferably non-allergenic or natural cleaning agents containing a minimum of chemicals.

Concern for the environment is becoming an integral part of building and commissioning projects, so you could perhaps ask if the cleaning company recycles as much as possible and disposes of everything safely. After all, you might be asked to provide evidence to the client or the planning authority that the process has been as environmentally friendly as possible.

Another question to ask the cleaning company is whether it has robust specialist equipment capable of extracting as much dust as possible.

If they are using any chemicals in cleaning do they abide by the COSSH regulations for handling hazardous substances.

Finally, as building projects sometimes overrun or there are last-minute changes, you need the cleaning company to be flexible and able to change their cleaning times at short notice if the job overruns.

The cleaning company should also provide a list of anything they’ve spotted that is damaged, not quite finished off or in need of their attention when they’ve finished their job.

Handing your client a clean, ready-to-occupy building that’s as free as possible of potential causes of allergies can give both you and the specialist after-build cleaner with an unbeatable reputation that helps you both successfully bid for future contracts.

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