Value Engineering Service Support
Plytec serves clients across Asia, Malaysia, enabling them to take their products to market faster, and supporting them with ongoing quality assurance and manufacturing support services. Value engineering service support enables engineering customers to complete their projects on time and support them with quality assurance and construction support services.
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Construction Estimates
In a construction project, an estimate entails calculating the amounts and likely cost of the different construction materials required to complete the project. Before executing a construction project, you should know the volume of work needed and a budget for all the required materials. This will help in understanding the probable cost required to complete the construction work. Estimating is done by multiplying the quantities of various items by their unit respective unit cost. When preparing a construction estimate, one requires the following;
Why Construction Estimating is Necessary?
- It helps determine the required cost of construction for the completion of the project in a private building. In public construction, project estimation is necessary for administrative approval, technical sanctions, and allotment of funds.
- Ensures necessary construction materials are procured on time
- Estimation helps in calculating the appropriate number of workers needed to complete the project on schedule.
- Assessing the cost of required tools and equipment to be used in the construction process.
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Construction Cost Estimates
The owners and the contractors of a project are the main beneficially of a construction cost estimation. Contractors and project managers use the estimates when allocating their budgets. There are various types of construction estimates:
- Detailed estimate- it includes the details of the cost, materials quantities, and rates of all the construction materials involved in completing the project. An exact construction estimation is mainly accompanied by construction report, general specifications, and construction drawings indicating the building plan, construction design data, and the basis of rates adopted in the estimate.
- Preliminary estimates are also called approximate estimates and are calculated to determine an approximate cost of short-time construction materials.
- Quantity estimate- it is a complete estimate of all construction materials and items needed to complete the project.
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Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC)
It is a building technique that involves completing free-standing 3-dimensional modules with interior varnishes, fittings, and fixtures in an off-site manufacturing facility before delivering and installing in the proposed site. PPVC is classified into two types, namely, steel and reinforced concrete. Reinforced concrete modules are supported by concrete walls and floors, while steel modules have steel frames and have either concrete or lightweight floor. PPVC is used in the construction project for the following reasons:
- To improve productivity- PPVC enhances the project’s output by 40% in relation of manual labor and saving time depending on the size of the project.
- Offers conducive construction environment- PPVC minimizes noise pollution and dust in your construction site, thus ensuring site safety.
- Improves quality control- PPVC enhances higher quality end products since off-site fabrication is a controlled factory environment.
- Timely contractor involvement- intended inputs should be picked from respective PPVC manufacturers and suppliers at the project’s design stage. This will help in developing effective technical results for the project
- Accessibility of construction site- the state of the roads connecting to your construction site should be able to hold the heavyweight of and size of PPVC module delivery. Just–in–time installation should be used to avoid unnecessary double handling.
- How to carry out maintenance, replacement, and renovation- PPVC suppliers need to provide construction owners with a user manual at the end of the project. This will ensure owners can carry out maintenance practice, replacement, and possible renovation in the future.
Volumetric Modular Construction
It is a type of off-site construction involving six-sided modular units assembled in a manufacturing factory and installed on-site. Therefore, interconnection and bolting of building services are the only activity needed at the site. Volumetric modular construction involves the following four stages:
- Seeking design approval by the developers, architects, and owners
- Assembling of modular construction in a controlled factory setting
- Transportation of modules to the proposed site where they are then assembled, creating a building
- Erecting of modular units forming a complete free-standing structure
Volumetric modular construction should be constructed indoors to avoid damage caused by harsh weather conditions, allowing the construction team to work in a comfortable condition.
Industrialized Building System (IBS)
It is defined as a system that involves manufacturing construction components in a factory where the pieces can be assembled both in the factory or transporting at the proposed construction site without carrying out additional work. IBS consists of the following components:
- Manufactured steel structures
- Molded component systems
- Prefabricated block systems
- Innovative mould systems
- Assembled timber structures
Part of the structures considered time-consuming and labor intensive to be cast at the construction site are designed in the standardized form at the manufacturing workshop and then transported to the proposed site for assembling. Many construction firms in the world are adopting the IBS to attain improved construction quality and output, minimizing possible risks resulting from work-related safety and health standard and reducing construction costs.
