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CONSTRUCTION PLANT
&
MECHANISATION
SEHS 3284
Construction Technology & Materials II
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Learning Outcomes
• Understanding the functions and operations of:
• Excavation machines
• Materials, formworks, falseworks and people transportation
machines
• Concrete mixing plant and placing machines
• Able to compare and contrast the suitability of different
machineries for a given construction task
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Background of Increasing
Mechanisation in HK Building Industry
• Labour – shortage, ageing
• Tall buildings
• Bulky construction materials (precast,
modular construction)
• Stricter safety standard
• Better and consistent quality
• Shorter construction time
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Types of Machines
https://www.aprentalshk.com/equipment-list/
1. Excavation Machines
2. Earth Compacting machines
3. Foundation machines
4. Materials Transporting Machines
1. Cranes
2. Hoists
5. Workers Transporting Machines
6. Concrete Mixing Plant
7. Concrete Placing Machines
8. Formwork Hoist
9. Automation
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1) Excavating Machines
• Wheel-mounted
machines: faster speed
and response but cannot
be used if the ground
condition is bad
• Needs more space for
turning
• Less traction with the
ground
• Less stable than track-
mounted
• Tires may puncture in
abrasive surfaces
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1) Excavating Machines
• Track-mounted
machines: better traction
between track and the
ground ➔ can be used
in muddy/slippery/slope
site condition
• Suitable for congested
site – can swing/rotate in
a circle
• More stable when
working on slope
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Bulldozer
• Strip top soil
• Clear vegetation
• Backfilling
• Levelling
• Large bucket
➔more efficient
than backacter to
transport soil to
lorries
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Backacter / Backhoe
• Hydraulically-operated backacter – very popular in HK
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Backactor / Backhoe
• Trench excavation for laying
utilities pipes (bucket width to
suit trench width)
• Work below the level of tracks
(dig downward)
• Foundation and basement
excavation (rest on upper level)
• Backfilling
• Stage excavation required if
excavation exceeds max.
digging depth
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Face Shovel
• Rope or hydraulic
operating
• Rest on lower level and
work above the track
against an excavation
face
• Bucket pushed upward
from toe to top
• Uncommon in HK
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Face Shovel
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Dragline
• Rope operated
only
• 3 rope drums
• Luffing winch (up
and down of boom)
• Hoisting winch (up
and down of bucket)
• Drag winch (pull the
bucket back)
• Excavation below
the level of tracks
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Dragline
• Large coverage (area)
because long boom
length
• For mining,
reclamation, ready-
mixed concrete
batching plant
• Difficult to put bucket
in exact position
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Roller
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Impact
Hammer /
Stamper
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3) Foundation Machines
• Displacement Piles: H piles,
Daido piles
• Vibration (H-pile) – vibrator hammer
(vibration may affect nearby structures)
• Momentum – drop hammer (noise)
• Hydraulic – hydraulic press-in hammer
(quiet)
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Drop
Hammer
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3) Foundation Machines
Lading Platforms
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Retractable
Loading Platforms
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Lorry-mounted
Telescopic
Mobile Crane
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Track
(crawler)
mounted
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Tower crane
assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHQfEvzNeKE
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Horizontal Jib
Crane
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Tower Crane
• Internally-mounted
• Openings on slabs need to be cast later
• Shorter boom length (radius) covers
maximum floor area
• Externally-Mounted
• May affect progress of external finishing
• Usually requires a longer boom to serve
the same floor area when compared with
inside-mounted tower crane
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Externally-
mounted
Crane
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Externally-
mounted
Climbing
Crane
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• Climbing Crane
• Each lift will go up 2 to 3 storeys
• Lift up by hydraulic jacks
• Loading to be transferred to the
building structure (e.g load bearing
walls)
• Additional forces : (1) vertical forces
- dead load of the crane itself and
the load weight and (2) lateral
forces / overturning force derive
from load weight, movement and
wind
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Climbing Crane
• Extra stiffening of walls and
columns may be required on
these supporting floors
• Temporary steel sections fixed
in supporting intermediate
floors to transfer loadings to
structural elements (columns,
walls)
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Loading of
Crane Being
Transmitted to
the Wall by
Structural steel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHDvs2r5bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3DH-yKA-U
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Anything Wrong??
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2vTF0U_Ygk
Dismantle by mobile crane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1qTr3Sh23U
Dismantle by another tower crane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q99VrNsEHII
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Set-up
Another
crane at roof:
sections of
derrick Crane
to be erected at
the roof to
dismantle the
tower crane
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EcsCb4R6o
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyve2Va-tA
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6 Cranes !!
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IFCII –
3 Luffing Boom
Cranes
– but one is
enough to
cover the
whole site!
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H. Availability of Crane
⚫ Plant hire or self-own
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Mobile Crane Tower Crane
Height Limit
Mobility
Working space
Set-up /
Dismantle Time
Lifting Capacity
Cost
Operator’s
maneuverability
Material Hoist (Skip Hoist)
Material Hoist
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Materials Hoist
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Passenger
Lift / Hoist
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High-Speed
Passenger
Hoists in
IFC2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRSJW-xqRqw
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Tower
Working
Platform
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Jump Lift
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifUqSnIGLg
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7) Concrete Placement
7.1) Concrete Skip
• Most popular concreting method
• Concrete being discharged into
concrete skip (from concrete lorries)
• Crane to lift the skip up for pouring,
therefore, crane is engaged
• Economical but low productivity,
suitable for small pour (e.g.
column/wall, slab divided into wings)
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Wheel-barrow concreting
(http://www.metalforms.com/)
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Stationary Pump
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Concrete
Placement
Boom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKhxamU1quA
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Concrete
Pipeline Mast
Mast of I-beams to
Concrete Distribute
Loading
Placement
Boom Passing
Through Slabs
of Lower Floors
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8) Formwork Hoist/Lift
• Special lift mounted on the external
wall of the topmost 3 or 4 storeys
• Transport the formwork (e.g. table
form) and falseworks to topmost floor
• Reduce demand on tower crane
• Can install more formwork hoists in
different wings for speedy erection
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkiBNAhgBQ
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Table Form
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9) Construction Automation
• Provisional roof to shelter the site and
make it weather-proof
• e.g. Penta-Ocean : “FACES” and “SEIJU”
systems; Obayashi Corporation : “Super
Construction Factory” and “Big Canopy”
systems
• Roof frame will be lifted hydraulically
• Shuttle crane under roof frame and is
controlled by central computer
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Benefit%2Fcost-analysis-of-a-robot-based-construction-Kim-
Lee/a16a4a43b63f18c024131233917ddbdab540d0d3
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9) Construction Automation
• RFID (radio
frequency
identification)
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Robotic Welding
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3D Printing
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Augmented Reality
(AR) [Google
Glasses/iPad]
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Use of Drone
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Reduce fatigue
– ageing
workforce