Answer to Question #282203 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for john

Question

name atleast 5 construction activities in a built environment. classify these activities. how do these activities contribute to the society's well-being?

Answer 1

Built environment can be defined in several ways:

The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings and parks or green space to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructure, such as water supply or energy networks. The built environment is a material, spatial, and cultural product of human labor that combines physical elements and energy in forms for living, working, and playing. It has been defined as “the human-made space in which people live, work, and recreate on a day-to-day basis” 

List of construction activities in sequence

When we start construction of a new building or home, we face many difficulties and unnecessary harassment in day to day construction. Everyone wants that construction work should be completed with the minimum difficulties and in time. For this we have requires a lot of work to be done before start of the work and simultaneously during construction. There are some points given below which are to be follow in sequence. 

• You should check whether the building site come in earthquake prone zone.
• Hire the architect for preparing drawings of the building to be constructed.
• Hire Structural engineer for structural design and keep safety from earth quack.
• Submit the drawings for approval by competent authority of the city concerned.
• Arrange water connection and electricity connection and ensure that water .
• Construct temporary store for storing building material required during construction.
• Arrange contractor i.e. for civil work, electrical work and water supply and sewerage work.
• Make arrangement for building material i.e. bricks bazri, sand brick ballast etc. You should aware about the quality of materials, their availability and repudiated building material supplier.
• After arranging the drawings, design, necessary sanctions and contractor start the construction activities.
• The site should be cleared from the roots of the trees if any exist in construction site. The roots should be removed up to 3feet below the ground level.