This time I on Buildsum what I want to look at is the procedure for setting up or establishing a building site so
You've had your construction certificate approved after you DA
And you now ready to start construction
So the council and a few other authorities are going to stipulate some things that you have to do
on your building site and then there are a few other things that are nice to do so we'll go through those
so the first thing to think about is safety and security of your site and the council will
Stipulate they have to have a fence
Now these temporary
fences that you can hire a pretty popular
However, they're not
Stipulated that you have to have them council does not
Stipulate what type of fence you have to have even what size or anything?
they just say you need a fence and the primary purpose of that fence is to stop someone just
unwillingly or unwittingly
Walking onto your building site and hurting themselves
However, the second reason that they're good to have is for a bit of security so that someone just can't walk on and take
something
okay, so a fence around your site doesn't have to be the whole way around your site if
There's neighbors or something like that
But you can't have anyone just walk onto your site without some sort of fence or obstruction in their way
Another thing the council's going to want is some sort of sign on the front fence or visible from the outside
Of the site, so it just has to have some basic contact information
So a name and a number just in case
Someone's walking past and they see
You know, maybe a fire on site or something and that so there's someone they can contact and get it, you know, get hold of
about that site
Most builders use that as a chance for advertising they put their whole company logo and everything up there
But if you're an owner builder just a name and a number is fine
Another thing people do with the fence nowadays is they put a shade cloth again Builders use it as an advertisement, but it does
help with a little bit of security and it also helps with cutting down the amount of dust and
projectiles things that are flying around on the site that can
Then come out and hit people that might be walking along the footpath so you see that a bit nowadays as well
All right, so that's the safety and security side of things
Other things we have to think about the environment so
That's where our buildings going to go
Just for a bit of perspective
so
the
local environmental
Authority have some requirements that we need to do as well. So the first one is
generally if a
Vehicle drives on to the site and it's muddy. We don't want that vehicle
Tracking dirt off the site and down the road
Because any dirt that ends up in our stormwater system, we can potentially be fined for that
So we need to have an area where the vehicle can be part and you can wash the wheels off
To stop any dirt and tracking off your site
So what we do normally is in front of the garage where the driveway is going to be later as we will put some large
recycled concrete or large rock so you can park the vehicle there wash the wheels off and
Then leave the site without tracking mud off the site
another thing that the
environmental authorities will require
is a
silt fence or sorry they're gonna you also have to think about if you're gonna have
Vehicles crossing this footpath whether you have a footpath here or not
You can't damage the footpaths at the end of the job that footpath will have to be
Fixed up so it's in working order
So if you can save it or if you're gonna cut it out later
To put your driveway lay back in it may not be such a worry, but you may need to protect you footpath. Okay?
The other thing the APA is going to want of the environmental agency is silt fencing
to the lower part of your block
so if this blocks sloping to this corner
And any water is going to run out of this corner, you put your silt fence in that corner
Okay, it's normally dug into the ground. So the water can't get under it
And just lets the water run through. It's just like a shade cloth
the water can run through it about any silt will be stopped and it'll stay on your site and
As a backup to that
out in the gutter
We normally put in sausages or sandbags again
This just lets the water run through it and any silt that gets out
this far will be left behind the
Behind the sandbag and you can get out there after a bit of rain and just shovel that back onto site
so I put one in front of my site if there was a pit here and then
Going down the street as well. Another one just down here just as a backup. So there's no dirt or silt from my site
Getting into the stormwater system
And
Then the next thing you need to think about is having some water on site
Okay, so there's my water meter somewhere close to the water meter. I would just put it in a tap
Alright closer to the water meter the the less. It's going to cost you
It may end up being a yard tap later or it could just be temporarily done by the Builder
But you need somewhere that the workers can get water has to be potable water
for drinking for mixing concrete that sort of stuff and
The last thing that you absolutely have to have on a building site is a toilet. Okay, so a portable toilet
Service at regular intervals
is
Another thing so it's out of the way of the building
But accessible from the street so that the service truck can get in there and service the building
Okay, so there's sort of the minimum things that you have to have to set up your building site in the next video
I'll have a look at some other
recommended things and nice-to-haves
When you're setting up a building site
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