CEEGR 4812 – Construction Management

Construction Equipment and Methods:

Construction Safety

Presented By:

Daniel P. Wallace, P.E. October 2, 2007

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND

METHODS: CONSTRUCTION SAFETY
Goals and Objectives of this Lecture
Goal:
To provide the students with examples of standard types of construction
construction
equipment, construction methods, and construction safety and discuss
discuss how
these are applies to any civil engineering project.
Objectives:
1. Not to make you an expert. It takes many years to understand the
the laws and how they
apply to individual project circumstances.
2. Think about the construction implications of a project. How is that incorporated into
the project planning, design, and budgeting of a project.
3. Awareness of another element of civil engineering as a profession.
profession.

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 LECTURE OUTLINE

1. Construction Equipment
2. Construction Methods and Products
3. Construction Safety
4. Case Studies

1. Construction Equipment

1. Choose proper equipment for the project

Equipment comes in all sizes, shapes, and configurations to do any job

Every project must be analyzed to determine the construction sequence (approach), identify
equipment needs

Page 37 – Mass Diagram

Page 46 – Excavators
Page 60 – Clamshells
Page 95, 119 – Bull Dozers, loaders, trucks

Trucking: haul distance, number of trucks, production, costs

Construction Access

Equipment examples

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 LECTURE OUTLINE

1. Construction Equipment

2. Construction Methods and Products

3. Construction Safety
4. Case Studies

LECTURE OUTLINE

1. Construction Equipment
2. Construction Methods and Products

3. Construction Safety
4. Case Studies

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
http://www.osha.gov/

Agency under the U.S. Department of Labor

OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's

workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training,
outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and
encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and
health
OSHA has 1,100 inspectors for 8.9 million sites throughout the US = 8,091 sites/inspector
(website)

Questions
and
Answers

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 Slab Cabin Run Stormwater
Bio-retention Project
A Growing
Greener
Stormwater
Management
Demonstration
Project

Water’s Edge Hydrology, Inc.

May 17, 2007

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Project Team and Supporters

• Project Team
– Penn State Office of Physical Plant
– Penn State Cooperative Wetland Center
– U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
– Canaan Valley Institute
– Water’s Edge Hydrology
– Wallace & Pancher

• Supporters
– The Clearwater Conservancy
– The Millbrook Marsh Advisory Committee
– Spring Creek Watershed Community
– Centre County Planning Commission
– Spring Creek Trout Unlimited
– Penn State Department of Meteorology

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 Project Need

The Selected Project Area

Spring Creek

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Slab Cabin Run
3 Thompson Run

Limits of Project Area

Implementation Phases

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 Technologies Applied
• In-stream Structures Based on Natural Channel Design
Criteria
– Rock and log cross vanes to control the elevation of the
streambed
– Set to allow stream to overflow to marsh floodplain during
bankfull event
– Designed for low impact installation

• Low Impact Modifications to Floodplain

– Shallow excavations to connect and maximize retention
areas
– Upland to wetland conversion of previous riparian
ploodplain
– Reconnection of stream to previous wetland mitigation area

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Floodplain Re-attachment Areas

PHASE 3 +/- 1.6 ac.

+/- 2.16 ac.
(3.2 Acres)

+/- 3.85 ac.

+/- 1.06 ac.

+/- 2.93 ac. +/- 5.00 ac.

PHASE 2 PHASE 1
(7 Acres) (6.5 Acres)

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 Results

Completed Structures

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Bankfull Conditions

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 Construction
• Maintain operation of existing paved trails
• Phasing of project – 4 separate locations
• Material access to sites
• Trout stream – restrictive dates for work
• Raise stream by average of 1’ – surveying had to be
accurate
• Connecting bankfull flood to wetlands/floodplains on the
other side of the paved trail
• Weather – not a problem for this project

Construction

• Project Phases
• 4 locations
• Material and equipment
staging and sequencing

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 Construction

• Maintain existing trail

for pedestrians

Construction

• Frustration
• Time delays
• Sensitive pedestrian environment

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 Construction

• Material access to sites

was difficult

Construction
• Log Cross Vane Installation

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 Construction
Phase 1

• Add rock to invert

of log cross vanes

Construction
Phase 2

• Rock Cross Vane

Installation
• Working in the wet

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 Construction
Phase 2

• Rock Cross Vane

Installation

Construction
Phase 2

• Phase 2
• Rock Cross Vane
Installation

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 Construction
Phase 3A

• Culvert Installation
• Maintain pedestrian
access to trail
• Staging supplies
• Surveying accuracy

Construction
Phase 3A

• Culvert
Installation
• Final stabilization

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 Construction
Phase 3A

• Final stabilization

Construction
• Final stabilization at
Phase 2

• Final stabilization at
Phase 1

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 Construction
Phase 3B

• Final stabilization at Phase

3B
• Wetland mitigation site

Questions

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 Construction
• Hazardous Waste
• Buried building foundations
• Abandoned pipes
• Petroleum contaminated soils from pipes
• Constricted Right-of-Way
• Construction Sequencing (bridge project)
• Invasive Plants, Coal fines prohibited plant success
• Weather
• Proper material size

Construction

• Existing conditions

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 Construction

• Existing conditions
• Sediment loading
• Flashy urban stream

Construction
• Size of boulders

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 Construction

• Surveying
• Sequence of
construction
• Surprises

Construction
• Cross Vane Installation

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 Construction
• Taking shape

• Surveying during
construction is very
important

Construction

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Construction

Construction

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Construction

Construction

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