MANAGING CONSTRUCTION SITE AS A SITE ENGINEER

 First of all I would suggest to all site engineers that be careful of mistry, mason etc. They would prevail that they know each and everything about construction or building a structure. As a fresher you would never know of about how to argue with the mistry or how to understand them about the work. All that things seem to impossible but rather you would have to make it possible. Because if you leave the site by showing your tiredness or relaxation about arguing with them they would think you to be a lame fellow and dosen't know anything about the work, as how to execute it or how to make the work fast and steady.

Apart from mistry and masons, if you work in a company as a fresher then be careful about supervisor and contractors (but main with supervisor). As supervisor always remains on the site and guide the laborers, he thinks himself to be the best but does all 2 no. works. Never the underestimate your power, because these things always happens in the beggining, but once you you gain experience, you will be the best for each and every work.

Be careful with each and every part of the work. There may be something wrong also as well as there may be something perfect also But you will get no reward for perfect works but you will hear from each and everyone for imperfect or wrong works. As in my site I am getting wrong with my pedestal column works where honeycomb like structures were being formed or in some height of the head is more. So where the pedestal column head is more, I should also have to do less backfilling for this head. 

 As you can see because of more height of the pedestal column, so less back filling would be done, and it is marked with mud. Ohh but the pedestal column is is not viewed here perfectly, wait let me put the another one.

Yeah now it's perfect for you to see the pedestal column and the marking of the head. So be careful with this things. It would be highly restricted in private companies as well as in government agencies. 

Moreover be careful with the honeycomb like structures. These happens when the mistry fails to use the vibrators or dosen't compact properly. More-over there is no technical about the use of vibrator for mistry. They only just have fun with it or use it like a fowl game. But you know and have studied about it, what the vibrator does. It does compaction and spread the concrete and cement with uniformity in all directions, which reduces honeycomb and cracks within it. So be careful with all these works.

The pedestal column has honeycomb like structures due to the poor use of vibrator.

More-over while working on the site there are also some electrical machinery tools which are always kept improper order. Electrical machinery tools such as wood cutter machine, grinding machine, tiles cutter machine, rod cutting machine etc. and many more. There are also some mechanical machines such as water pump, concrete mixer etc. So be careful with all these machinery items as these are the main tools that helps us in easy work and less time consuming. So mess up like this:

As a fresher many site engineers dosen't know how to prefer the excavation depth, breadth in the beggining. All of them are experienced with the layout but while doing excavation with JCB or Backhoe (technical name of JCB) thy dosen't match up with the accuracy. And yeah it is not possible to make the accuracy depth and broad with Backhoe as it carries out lot of earth in the pocket. So after cutting the earth with Backhoe it then done manually by labors to give the perfect match of footing. 

This is the excavated pit after JCB earth cutting 

 

After excavation with JCB these are the labors who make the excavated pit to give a perfect match for footing and it is done manually

 And last one of the most important thing is that before putting any shuttering first of all clear the ground water otherwise this will lead to defect and would mix up all the cement with water and flow with them and as a result it the concrete strength weak and later will lead the structure to failure. 

In this picture the shuttering was putted within the ground water and after that it is removed the very next day. But these is not the right order.

The right order is this. So be careful with this kind of silly things.