SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN

Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Honours)

MEASUREMENT 1 (QSB 60104)
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 1 (BLD 60104)
BUILDING MATERIALS (BLD 62003)

Title: Site visit to Impian Murni Jalan Kebun, Shah Alam

Name: Daphne Tan Li Wen
Student ID: 0329055

Table of Content
Tittle
Cover Page
Table of Content
Introduction
Objectives
Technical Observations and Content
Conclusion

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Introduction

Figure1: Site visit of Impian Murni Construction

This is a report on a site visit to a construction site incorporating the objective of the site
visit, the introduction of the site and technical observations made on site including the
proposed learning outcomes of the site visit. This assignment is involved in three modules,
which are Measurement 1, Construction Technology 1 and Building Materials. The site visit
to construction site was organized on 23th of November 2016 (Wednesday) by Mrs. Ang
Fuey Lin, Mrs Azrina bt Mhb Yaakob and Mrs Aishah Kamarazaly. Before anything, all the
safety precautions gave by the lecturer such as wearing helmet and proper shoes. The base on
the plan, all students gathered at the site around 9am.

Figure 2: Google location of

Impian Murni construction site

Figure 3: 3D model in brochure

The construction site is located in the south of Bukit Rimau, Taman Impian Murni is only
1.8 kilometers to kesas Highway and 6 kilometers drive to Kota Kemuning. Other nearest
highway that this residence has access to residence has access to include SKVE, LKSA, and
Elite Highway. The site visit is joined by around 45 students and 3 lecturers. This
Construction site is constructing 42 unit terrace house including double and three storey
house in Taman Impian Murni. The contract value of this Taman Impian Murni Construction
site project is RM11million.

Taman Impian Murni (Malay Reserved)

From R585,800-RM984,800
Property Type
Commencement Date
Completion year
Contract Value
Location
Developed by
Architect
Civil Engineer
Mechanical and
Electrical Engineer
Contractor

Double Storey Terrace House and Three Storey Terrace House

March 2016
Oct 2017 ( Estimate around 1year half)
RM11 million
Jalan Haji Yusof, Shah Alam
Khas Perkasa Sdn Bhd (Subsidiary of Purcon Sdn Bhd)
Tanck Architect
Ved Engineers SDN.BHD
BSD Associates SDN. BHD.
Pu r co n Sdn Bh d

B1-03-13, Jalan SR1/9, Taman Serdang Raya, Section

9,43300, Seri kembangan, Selangor Darul Eshan.

Objectives

Understand the basics of the construction process and witness the usage of

construction equipments on site including mechanical plants.

Explore and identify various types of building materials and technology on site.
Awareness of the importance of safety on site and understanding of safety problems

and site conditions.

Exposure to actual working environment on site including uncertainty circumstances

e.g. weather
Experiencing and learning more about construction site environment that will face

after becoming a Quantity Surveyor and entering construction industry.

Learning about basic process of construction by observing a real example of working

space.
Understanding of construction drawings.
To gain more knowledge on the uses of the construction site.

Technical Observations and Content

On 23th of November 2016, some of us went there by car or carpooled to the Taman Impian
Murni construction site. The construction site, which is quite far from Taylors University
Lakeside Campus. We took about 30 minutes to reach the construction site.
After arrival to the site, the lecturer gives us some briefing and took attendance. Besides that,
the people in charge of guiding us, a short brief about the project was given by Mr Lim who
is a project manager and his colleagues. We are divided into 2 groups.
Before we enter to the site, the site manager told us the safety precaution. He also roughly
explained the company and the building itself. The project manager, Mr Lim and his
colleagues distribute the helmet to us. Mr Lim had to ensure that we were all properly attired
with safety helmet or head protection and covered shoes before we were allowed to go in to
the construction site. A safety helmet is required in all construction industry where to prevent
the dropping objects.

Figure 5: Safety helmet

provided by PURCON SDN
BHD

Figure 4: Mr Lim and his

colleagues are
distributing the safety
helmet to us.
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Figure
are entering
site
On the way to the construction
site,6:
wewe
should
always be into
aware
of our steps to avoid stepping

rails around the construction and preventing to slips. In the construction site, we can found
that there are a lot of thing that we does not seen before.

Figure 7: piling. In this project, they using piling and using strip
foundation as cap and it can be the ground beam as well.

The manager starts to explain the foundation of the site. Foundation of this double and three
storey houses is using piling and strip footings. Piling is a deep foundation and transfer load
to subsoil when the surface soils at a proposed site are to week and to some distance below
the ground floor of the building. The depth is more than 3m below the finished level. Pile
foundation suitable for all type of soil and a group of pile supports a superstructure. Pile
foundation is also to reduce excessive settlement. In this project here, it actually comes with
the piling and covers a strip footing as a cap and as a beam at the same time. That why strip
footing has a multi-function. It can be a cap and act as a ground beam as well.

Figure 8: Information Board

have shown in front of the
main entrance of the site. The
project is Taman Impian
Murni Double Storey
eTerrace House and Three
Story Terrace House,
developed by Khas Perkasa
Sdn Bhd (Subsidiary of
Purcon Sdn Bhd), Tanck
Architect Architect, Ved
Engineers SDN.BHD (Civil
Engineer), BSD Associates
SDN. BHD (Mechanical and
Electrical Engineer) and
Purcon SDN. BHD
(contractor).

Figure 9: The information board or

warning signs were well-placed as
it was facing the main entrance,
which everybody could see it
clearly and property before
entering the site.

Evey construction site needed the information board and warning sign. The
information board or warning signs was located at the main entrance to remind
all the construction workers.The information board is to emphasis for safety and
to ensure that we would less vulberable to accidents.

Figure 10: Vertical Hoarding basically is used to

enclose a building site whilst construction
works take place.

Figure 11 &12: Accommodation for construction

workers on site.

Figure 13: Falsework consists of temporary structures used

in construction to support spanning or arched structures in order to
hold the component in place until its construction is sufficiently
advanced to support itself.

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Figure 14: 50kg packets of Portland cement put on the pallet

stored on site.

Figure 15: Clay

Brick

Figure 16: Cement

sand brick

When we walking around the construction site, we saw a few temporary works installed at
the site. One of the temporary works is vertical hoarding. Vertical hoarding is used to stop
Figure17Material Storage
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unauthorized person access to site used to enclose a building site whilst construction works
take place. Falsework also includes temporary support structures for formwork used to mould
concrete to form a desired shape, Scaffolding is a structure which persons can gain and
support structures. Falsework is actually supporting the column, so that you formwork
doesnt fall. These sites just finish casting around a week, that why we can see they all are
removing the formwork. Besides, material storage is to ensure the materials are dry store or
to prevent the theft. For example, Cement, plaster, lime needed to dry store free from
draughts which can bring in moist air.

Figure 18: Formwork is a temporary

mould into which fresh concrete
and reinforcement are placed to
form a particular reinforced
concrete element. Formwork is
actually where you form mould of
the concrete. In this construction
site, they using timber formwork.

Figure 19: the workers are removing the

formwork.

Figure 20: the workers is put

the cement into concrete
mixer.

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Figure 22: Special concrete

mixer transport truck. Special
concrete transport trucks are
made to transport and mix
concrete up to the
construction site. They can be
charged with dry materials and
water, with the mixing
Before we pouring the concrete to form the concrete framed building. We need to determine
occurring during transport.
Figure 21: Concrete mixer.
A concrete mixer is often
referred to as a cement mixer.
The function of a concrete
mixer is to combine cement
with aggregates including
sand or gravel, and water to
form concrete.

is the concrete suitable to use by slump test. Concrete slump test is to determine the
workability or consistency of concrete mix. Before pouring, we need to check the concrete
cover. When the formwork are loose, concrete flow out on the floor which called
honeycombing and need to remove the concrete slab because the concrete is hardened very
fast.
Nowadays, the other conversional construction method is used cast insitu. Cast in-situ is everything will be cast on the spot after construction
the formwork and constructed the force work. However, it is another
method called IBS (Industrialized Building System), where the building
likes Lego. Everything is pre-casted and pre-mould and it can build easily.
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The reason why this construction site are no using this method is because
the economics of skill that means have to build a lot of quantity at once,
which depending the material or the types of IBS.

Figure 23: attached beam

Figure 24: Upstand beam and

drainage

Figure 25: floor slab is above

Figure 26: upper

floor slab

Figure 27: column formwork before

casting

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Figure 28:
column

Concrete framed building means that the building consists of a frame of

concrete. When we say concrete frame is anything that using concrete as
reinforced concrete to support the building. Horizontal members of this
frame are called beams, and vertical members which are located above
the ground are called columns. Humans walk on flat planes of concrete
called slabs. Upstand beam is a floor beam that projects at the end above
floor level. The other name of the upstand beam is called as scraper drain.
It has a drop at upstand beam and function as helping to remove the
water from one side to the floor track itself. In this Taman Impian Murni
construction site, the slab is using the suspended slab with the load
directly to beam at the side and going from beam. It move down to
column and then strip piling towards pile. The project is constructed
ground beam first and concrete slab is on top because ground is very soft,
so that the floor will be going higher. As Mr Lim mentioned that when
constructing the ground beam, they are not pouring the full depth
concrete into. However, the concrete had a bit from lower, so the bar will
expose. So that, when pouring the concrete slab, it will stick together will
beam.

Figure 29: The bar is to join

brick walls to this column and
to support wall otherwise the
wall stand alone will collapse.

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Figure 30 Fabric
Reinforcement that is made in
factory by welding and use for
slab. Storing at the site to use
it later.

Figure 31: Reinforcement bar

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Reinforcing bar or Rebar also known as reinforcing steel and reinforcement steel, is a steel
bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced
masonry structures to strengthen and hold the concrete in tension. Concrete is very strong in
compression. However, it is very brittle and very hard and very week in tensile strength. Steel
is very strong at both but the reason is very expensive that why we not use for whole block of
steel. Therefore, we use the steel rebar for reinforcement and act as the backbone of the
concrete for the tensile strength. It will be cracking and breaking .It is also a partly use for
support

Figure 34: The worker is to

ensure the concrete cover
is same
thickness is required
Concrete cover that we called toufu in the site. Concrete cover
for reinforcement

Figure 32: Mr Lim show us

the concrete cover.

Figure 33:
Concrete cover

to protect the rebar against corrosion and to provide resistance against fire. If fire occurs in
the building, the steel might lose so much strength to impair its reinforcing effect and beam
might collapse.

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Figure 36: Electrical

wiring

Figure 35 PVC sewer and

drain pipes

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Figure 37: Metal

scaffolding

Figure 39: Window

frame

Figure 38: Door

Frame

Figure 40: Door

Frame
Figure 41: Lintel. Lintel is a
horizontal support of timber,
stone, concrete, or steel
across the top of a door or
window. It is actually put on
the top of the opening, so that
load will not go on the door
frame itself.

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Figure 42: Crane. A crane is a

type of machine, generally
equipped with a hoist rope,
wire ropes or chains, and
sheaves, that can be used
both to lift and lower materials
and to move them horizontally.
It is mainly used for lifting
heavy things and transporting
them to other places.

Figure 43: Excavators

Excavators are used in many
way such as digging of trenches,
holes, Material handling,
demolition and others.

Figure 44: Wheelbarrow. A

wheelbarrow is a small handpropelled vehicle, usually with
just one wheel, designed to be
pushed and guided by a single
person using two handles at
the rear, or by a sail to push
the ancient wheelbarrow by
wind.

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Figure 45: Cement Sand

Brick

Figure 46: Clay

Brick

Figure 47: Cement Sand Brick

and mortar which stick the
masonry together.

Figure 49: Cement Sand Brick

Figure 48: Clay Brick and

mortar which stick the
masonry together.

Figure 50: Clay Brick

In the construction
site, firefighting is requirement the
fire regulation, so the construction
Wall
Wall
site needs clay brick at the wall. Clay brick are more expensive, cement brick or sand bricks
are cheaper. We used cement sand brick which is cheaper than clay bricks in the house. In the

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party wall which wall is between you and neighbour, because fire resistant which is required
the longer time than cement sand bricks.

Figure 51: The house is on

constructing.

Figure 53: One of the rooms

Figure 52: The appearance of the

house

Figure 54: Toilet in the house

Figure 55: upstand beam and

drainage

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2 storey terrae house

3 storey terrace house

RM585,800-RM698,800
1951 sq. ft. ft
4 bedrooms
3 bathrooms

RM758,800-RM984,800
2683 sq.ft.ft
6 bedrooms
4 bathrooms

Figure 57: Ms Ang is giving

further. explanation.

Figure 56: brochures of the

houses

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Figure 58: goodies bag from the PURCON

Company.

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Conclusion
At the end of the site visit, we gain many experiencing real working space and the
environment of construction. There are many valuable information and knowledge gain at
this site visit. I have learnt many things that I couldnt learn from in the books. Now, I can
more understand better about a construction after this site visit. Besides that, I had seen many
materials and tools in the construction site. This is really helpful for me because I have never
had the chance to see. After visiting the site, I had recognized the materials better. I had learnt
one of the fundamental in construction area which is safety precaution, it is important
because of all dangers exist on site. The safety rules need to be strict followed by everyone
present in construction site. Furthermore, I have learnt about construction process and
methods that are used in Malaysia. In conclusion, this site visits have greatly increases my
knowledge about construction. The site visit helped for better understanding what am I going
on to face in future as a Quantity Surveyor. I have very thankful to have this oppourtunity to
visit here in my very fresh quantity surveying life. I wish that I could have more chances to
visit site in future later.

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