Project Fundamental Planning

To maintain and increase the value of the land, some of the factors may need to consider for the development such as site factors, market conditions, policy directions, etc. This step is complex because the factors are complicated which have to think over instead of making profit. 

Pass all the barriers (factors) before get the Goal (profits)

In this planning step, several procedures may need to carry out which is apply to the legislation, material considerations and type of planning application. The planning policy and the type of development of the land which can be search from the Sheffield City Council website and it is easy to get the town planning information from the website.

The Local Plan Propose map in Sheffield City Council website. (The grid line area is the site at Matilda Street)

Meanwhile, the more important part is not consider at the planning policy but still focus to the site factors and market conditions as to get the best development proposal which is profitable. Ostensibly, development is just construct a new building or refurnish the building to improve it's value. In fact, it is need to carry out a lot of feasibility study and layers of planning stages before the construction begin. 

Construction Development just like the Tips of Iceberg while it seem simple, but actually the background is complex.

Construction Technical Issue

Construction Technical Issue is not fresh nowadays. It might be the first consideration in planning a new development. Based on the site at Matilda Street, the technical issues will be the location, zoning, use of land, type of development, soil condition and so on. It is easy to construct a new building or development but it is difficult while have to fulfill the requirement by the local authorities and government's regulations. For example, if i choose to renovate the building of the site and propose to do a storage or warehouse, will this proposal approve or reject by the Local Authority of Sheffield? In addition, is the land or site suitable and safe for storage the stuffs? Therefore, this may return to the reflection cycle stage (as stated aforesaid) while review the problems and issues which are possible happen in the future. 

To make a perfect development, review practices must always conducted in the planning stage, it is helpful to solve the technical problems or issues and make the development proceed smoothly. 

A good weather for site visit

Survey Team (S105) - From Left (Shin Huat, Yeo; Rong Yaw, Lee; Shin Chun, Wong; and Wei Chien, Chee)

The building is currently used for storage and is not in regular daily use. We have formed a group of 4 members to carry out the survey on this site including the measurement of the area and the building. 

The site is located near 102 Matilda Street which is about 7 minutes walking distance to Sheffield Hallam University or Sheffield City Centre and 6 minutes walking distance to Sheffield Railway Station.

Survey outcome:
The land of the site is uneven settlement which may effect to the stability of the building's foundation and structure. The building is in a mess and there were some defects occurred which is in a risk of health and safety.

Uneven ground level of the site which is lower than the ground level of the next site. This identified that the soil condition of the land is poor.

The internal wall of the building is cracking. This may be caused by the settlement of the land.

The machine is dangerous as it has not remove and it can cause electric leakage or other matter happen.

Some of the ceiling boards in the building was collapse and the ceiling is dampness cause by water leakage from the roof slab. Due to the photo above (left), the roof slab is seem as precast slab which constructed by concrete strip.

Reflection of survey:

This survey work is imperfect as the safety equipment or personal protective equipment (ppe) does not provide and use during the survey work. Due to the building defects, there will be a health and safety risk for the surveyors while carrying the survey work in the building without personal protective equipment (ppe). It may cause an injury by the falling materials, slipping, cuts and punctures, electric shock and so on.

According to Crown (2014), "employers have duties to concern the provision and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at work" and this is required by The Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 2002 and the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (as amended).

A New Module Experience

Integrated Project is one of the modules in my degree programme. It is subjects to illustrate the complex nature of development process, to examine and evaluate the overall process within which building are conceived, designed, constructed and used. This blog is created to reflect the learning outcome of the module. It is a process from experience to review then reflect and finally modify in a project while to improve and enhance the project and self knowledge in order to get the best point. 

The Reflective Cycle

Success is always comes from experiences. To improve or make good a problem, the primary stage may come from the experiences of the problem. Experience is to clearly understand the actual situation of the problem. Next, the problem is to be reviewed to find out the reasons on how, why, when, where and what was happened from the problem. In the reflection stage, it is to analyse or investigate the solution to make good the problem and the problem is to modify lastly by according to the information from previous stages (Experience, review, reflect). The modify stage is the action from the final decision based on the investigation and analysis of the previous stage. However, if the problem has not to overcome ideally, it may return to the initially stage to repeat the practice until it is solve perfectly.

This Module assessment is required to redevelop the site at Matilda Street. It is applicable with the reflective cycle to the development because it help to identify the problems or some related issues of the development while to get the best solutions to solve the problems. The draft below shows the initial planning of the development :