MOBILIZATION/

DEMOBILIZATION
Engr. Akira Q. Nakaegawa
Universal Colleges of Parañaque
Construction Materials
 DEFINITION OF
TERMS
What is Mobilization and Demobilization?
 MOBILIZATION
• Mobilization is defined as “activation of a contractor’s
physical and manpower resources for transfer to a
construction site until the completion of the contract”.
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 MOBILIZATION
(Construction Specification 408)
• According to NRCS-FOTG: Natural Resources Conservation
Service – Field Office Technical Guide
• Scope:
• This work consists of the mobilization and demobilization of the
contractor’s forces and equipment necessary for performing the
work required under the contract. It does not include mobilization
and demobilization for specific items of work for which payment is
provided elsewhere in the contract. Mobilization will not be
considered as work in fulfilling the contract requirements for
commencement of work.
 MOBILIZATION
(Construction Specification 408)
• Mobilization shall include all activities and associated
costs for transportation of contractor’s personnel,
equipment, and operating supplies to the site;
establishment of offices, buildings, and other necessary
general facilities for the contractor’s operations at the
site; premiums paid for performance and payment bonds
including coinsurance and reinsurance agreements as
applicable; and other items as approved by the NRCS.
 DEMOBILIZATION
(Construction Specification 408)
• Demobilization shall include all activities and
costs for transportation of personnel, equipment
and supplies not required or included in the
contract from the site; including the disassembly,
removal, and site cleanup of offices, buildings,
and other facilities assembled on the site
specifically for this contract.
 PURPOSE
What do we need to mobilize and demobilize?
 CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY
• Construction machinery is one of the neediest things
while you plan to construct somewhere a giant shopping
plaza or reconstructing a children playground. These
construction machinery help in many ways like reducing
your time of production, increases productivity levels
with less workforce and the third important thing is it
will save your precious which you would spent on other
necessary expenditure.
 CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY
• Construction machinery has varied according to uses in different fields
of construction from demolition to reconstruction. The most
interesting part of the construction machinery that it gives you the
better compatibility to every need of construction.
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
EQUIPMENT
What are the different types of heavy
construction equipment?
 BACKHOES
• The backhoe loader consists of a
tractor, hydraulic boom-arm,
stabilizer legs, bucket-
attachment, front loader, driver-
cab and engine. Backhoe loader
consumes diesel as a fuel and
perform the function that named
it backhoe. It basically fight
from behind when in
construction like it digs or
trenches the field from its
digging bucket which is on back
and the front loader pull all the
rubbish away! 
 BULLDOZERS
• Likewise its name, Bulldozers
work as same as bull and dozers.
Dozers have big horizontal
abrasive plates on front that
collect and ditch the sand, rock
or stones from the ground and
throw them away where
necessary. Dozers interestingly
compact the time of construction
by its fast moving tracks instead
of tires. Moreover, some
bulldozers are mini in size and
used big rubber tires for moving
steadily on non-plain grounds.
 COMPACTORS
• Compactors mean to use where
the compaction is needed and
these giant machineries don’t
worry about the size of object.
Compactors usually compact the
sizes of objects like when
ground surface is needed to be
surfaced, so external force
implemented by compaction
vehicle compacts the size of
ground. Furthermore,
compaction vehicle is big enemy
of useless cars and electronics
besides construction! 
 CRUSHERS
• Crusher equipment is mostly used for
construction purposes to crush the
concrete or rocks into small pieces or
sometimes into powder form to make
it useful where necessary. Crushers
have basically five types jaw crusher,
compound crusher, gyratory crusher,
cone crusher and impact crushers. All
of these have different sorts of works
according to their sizes and
specialties.
 DRILLING RIGS
• Drilling rig is basically a machine,
sometimes a track-mounted vehicle, used
to drill the ground to obtain oil or water
from its surface. Drilling rigs classified
through its different uses like power,
pipe, height and rotation methods.
Besides that, drilling rig is one of the
useful construction machineries which
helps through its pump system that sucks
all the water from ground needed to be
avoided before construction. 
 EXCAVATORS
• Excavator is heavy construction
equipment which acts main role
in construction by. Excavator
consists of a hydraulic pulling
up big solid or liquid objects
from ground and throw them
away where necessary boom-
stick, bucket-attachment,
driver-cabin and stabilizers. It
helps to reduce the time of
construction through its long
boom-arm, big buckets and
several other attachments.
 MOTOR GRADERS
• Motor grader is also known as
maintainer because of its
sophisticated work that helps
most of the final times in
construction. Motor Grader is
a type of construction vehicle
that have a blade in front use
to flatten the surface when
there is necessity. Moreover,
motor graders are used to push
the ice away when there is
heavy snow and the symptoms
of more snowfall occur. 
 MOTOR SCRAPERS
• These self-pulled scrappers help
in the construction when
leveling, hauling or digging is
necessary while construction.
Motor scrapers are commonly
used machines and mostly used
for variety of construction jobs
as we mentioned digging,
plucking and pushing the ground
surface where necessary.
Basically, motor scrappers have
four main types varied according
to its uses self-propelled,
elevating, auger and push-pull. 
 PAVERS
• A paving machine is not so
common construction machine
for small type of constructions
but it is quite necessary for
road construction. It is used to
lay the concrete and asphalt on
the road for further processes.
Pavers are so helpful for these
paving processes because the
machine saves the time of
construction and cost of labor. 
 PILE DRIVERS
• Pile Drivers have long vertical
booms with hooks and used to drive
the piles in ground like big structures
for construction. Pile drivers
sometimes work with the help of
cranes and it is one of the oldest
machines being used by ancient
Romans. Pile driver is not so
common in simple type of
constructions but found must in oil
rigging and giant building
constructions. 
 POWER TROWEL
• Power Trowel is simple
construction device used to polish
the tiles or get the smoothness of
surface. Power trowel consists of
fan type abrasive blades that finish
the land by moving motors across
the surface. Power trowels are
portable machines and useful for
polishing marbles after
construction. 
 RAMMERS
• Rammers basically tamping rammers
are demolition tools used to compact
and demolish the big bash rocks or
concrete pieces into small bits.
Sometimes, it works as a portable
compaction tool because it has flat
plate at the end used to flatten the
ground where normal compaction
machine can’t reach out! 
 ROAD ROLLERS
• Road Rollers are helping out us
from many years, basically they
are also compaction tool with too
large metal tires used to compact
the ground and it is one of the
useful vehicle for road compaction
because it has capability to reduce
the time of construction and labor
costs. Road rollers have front
single wheel which is too large as
compared to other construction
machineries and made up of metal,
this wheel pressing the ground for
flatten it. 
 TRENCHERS
• If you ever assumed a big type
of electric saw placed on
vehicle, so that is trencher.
Trencher is basically a digging
tool used to trench or dig the
grounds with its blade whatever
its shape round or horizontal. It
is one of the useful machines
for most of construction plans
when there is need of digging
fast and reduction of time and
labor cost. 
 WHEEL LOADERS
• Wheel loaders are one of the
construction machines used to
load the unnecessary sand, rocks,
rubbish or anything else and pull
them away or in the construction
site. Wheel loaders basically
consist of a simple tractor with the
loading bucket that performs the
essential function according to its
name. Wheel loaders has bucket
which can hold up to 8000 tons of
load at time and keep them away
from construction sites. 
CONSTRUCTION
WORKERS
Who are those needed on-site?
 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
• SITE SUPERINTENDENT
• CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS
• METAL FABRICATORS
• SITE ENGINEERS
• DESIGNERS