Site layout planning considers four key aspects: safety of temporary facilities, safety zones, optimal placement of facilities, and use of constructed spaces. It involves identifying temporary facilities needed to support construction, determining their size and placement within site boundaries. Temporary facilities include warehouses, job offices, workshops, batch plants, cranes, access roads, and welfare facilities. The primary goals of effective site layout are safety, productivity, and smooth material and equipment flow. It can also involve dynamic reorganization of temporary facility locations over time. Placement of facilities is especially important for restricted sites, where constructed spaces may be used for storage if available early and sufficiently sized.

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5. Four aspects are considered during site-layout
planning:
 defining the safety-related temporary
facilities needed on construction sites;
 defining proper safety zones around the
construction space;

6.  considering safety in determining the optimum
placement of temporary facilities on the site;
 utilizing parts of the constructed space as
temporary facilities to relieve congestion on
restricted sites.

7. Site layout planning is an important task that
involves:
 Identifying the temporary facilities (TFs) needed
to support construction operations,
 determining their size and shape, and
appropriately positioning them within the
boundaries of a construction site.

8. TFs include:
 Warehouses,
 Job offices
 Workshops
 Batch plant
 Equipment (cranes)

9.  The primary consideration in effective site
layout planning is safety and high productivity.
 In addition to the smooth and low-cost flow of
materials, labour, and Equipment within the
site.

10.  dynamic site layout planning can
be defined as the reorganization
of the location and/or areas of the
needed TFs on site at various
schedule intervals, along project
duration to suit the activities’
dynamic need of TFs.

14.  Access roads, warehouses, and welfare
facilities which include:
 first aid station
 Toilet on site
 labour rest area
 washing facilities
 canteen.

15.  The size and number of these
facilities should reflect the site
size, nature of the work, and
the number of people who will
use them.

24. Consideration for Restricted Sites
 The layout planning of site space on restricted
sites, becomes more important than any other
resource.
 In many situations, construction managers use
part of the constructed facility e.g., some floors
in a high rise building for storage purposes or
other uses.

25.  At any time interval, the management team
can select which part of the constructed space
can be used to place a TF.
Two conditions must be satisfied in this situation:
 1-the constructed space has to be available
i.e., its finish date is earlier than the service
start date of the needed TF
 2-the constructed space area has to be large
enough to accommodate the TF.

27.  Storage of material can be very
difficult for single tower type high-rise
building.
 This photo shows the temporary
storing of semi-prefabricated steel
components on partially completed
steel floor beams