Supervising a building site: stages, deadlines, checks, handover
The plan is perfect, the materials are chosen, and yet the house delivered has a 90 cm low wall, a closed ridge and a slab that holds water. Between the plan and the house, there is the building site: three months during which a mason, a carpenter and an electrician take decisions every day in your place if you are not there. This lesson teaches you to run a poultry house building site: the stages in order, the deadlines in weeks, the checks to do at each stage before moving to the next, the site logbook, and the handover, which is the moment when you say “yes” or “not yet”.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Designing and building a poultry house specialisation. It opens to every registered student, from free registration. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
The plan is perfect, the materials are chosen, and yet the house delivered has a 90 cm low wall, a closed ridge and a slab that holds water. Between the plan and the house, there is the building site: three months during which a mason, a carpenter and an electrician take decisions every day in your place if you are not there. This lesson teaches you to run a poultry house building site: the stages in order, the deadlines in weeks, the checks to do at each stage before moving to the next, the site logbook, and the handover, which is the moment when you say “yes” or “not yet”.
- ✓Organise the actors of the site (client, mason, carpenter, electrician-plumber) and the document that binds them
- ✓Draw up the twelve-week construction calendar of the 8 × 40 m house and fit it to the season
- ✓Carry out, at each stage, the check that authorises the next one, and keep the site logbook
- ✓Conduct the handover: the list of points to check, the reservations, the seven-day empty test
- The site: who does what, and with what paper
- The twelve weeks of the site and the season
- The stage check: what authorises the next step
- The mistakes that derail a site
- The handover: saying yes, or not yet
- Going further
- •Four actors (client, mason, carpenter, electrician-plumber), one contract per trade with plan and quantities stapled, payment in instalments after checks.
- •Twelve weeks: setting out (0), foundations (1-2), posts (3), low wall and slab (4), curing (5), frame (6-7), roof (8), closures (9), networks (10), empty test (11), handover (12); pouring in the dry season, start in November-December.
- •A stage check before each next stage, because it hides the previous one; simple tools; everything in the signed site logbook.
- •Mistakes: absence, changing the plan midway, paying in advance, green timber and liquid concrete, neglected safety, forgotten surroundings.
- •15-point handover with report: 15/15 without reservation; 12-14 with reservations and deadlines; less than 12 or a defect on height, overhang, ridge vent or water: refused; chicks ordered afterwards.