Comment planifiez-vous et gérez-vous l’accès au site et le transport pour les projets de construction?

Effective planning and management of site access and transportation are crucial for the success of any construction project. It begins with careful site logistics planning, ensuring that entry points, material storage areas, and transportation routes are clearly mapped out and optimized for efficiency. Collaborating with local authorities for permits and road access is also key to preventing delays. Additionally, maintaining clear scheduling and coordination with subcontractors helps avoid congestion and ensures materials and equipment arrive when needed.

Site Assessment: Conduct a thorough site assessment to understand access points, road conditions, and potential obstacles. Logistics Plan: Develop a detailed logistics plan outlining delivery schedules, equipment movement, and material storage. Permits and Regulations: Obtain necessary permits and ensure compliance with local transportation regulations. Traffic Management: Implement traffic management strategies to minimize disruptions, such as designated routes and scheduling off-peak deliveries Safety Measures: Ensure safety protocols for workers and the public, including clear signage and barriers. Coordination: Communicate with stakeholders, including local authorities and nearby residents, to coordinate activities and address concerns.

A key element to consider is also the weight of the materials you will be moving across the existing infrastructure to the project site. Permitting, road widths, bridge weight capacity, traffic control restrictions - are only a few of the concerns you should research prior to setting up delivery of equipment or materials. Traffic consideration, and the time of day is also an important aspect to keep in mind as it can affect the costs of getting material to the site immensely. In some cases, it may be prudent to opt for taking delivery of materials at night to avoid the costs of paying hauling companies to sit in traffic.

Regular scheduling meetings where you go over all of the details regarding material deliveries and the various traffic control needs is a crucial step to ensuring everyone has, and understands the information necessary to ensure that things operate smoothly and that somebody does not drop the ball. While having a meeting is a crucial step, it is just as important to make sure that everyone leaves the meeting with action items and that there is follow-up through meeting minutes to allow an opportunity for the various stakeholders to communicate if they did not understand something.

Part of the transportation plan for the project should be the emergency and non-emergency contact lists to ensure that everyone who could be potentially involved has all of the information necessary to communicate needs, both of a critical medical and important operational type.

Proper signing is critical to any access/egress points on a project, however as the project matures and changes, these access points, and the signage that identifies them may need to change as obstructions either appear or disappear as the job develops. Discussing this during regular traffic control and project phase meetings can help avoid any issues that can be caused by an evolving site and an obsolete transportation plan.

It is critical to capture this information during the course of the project, due to personnel changes and the fact that by the end of a long grueling job, memories are short. The project weekly meeting and monthly progress reports should have a section dedicated to discussing lessons learned that can be filtered and used at any point during the job, and at the end of the project to help setup success for the next venture.