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Has anybody else thought about safe access and egress for groundworkers once a housing plot is built to DPC? The height can differ dependant on a number of factors but once built groundworkers need to access it for drainaige etc prior to the floor being laid. Has anyone come up with a solution?
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Good morning Temeraire Your first post here, so welcome to the Forums. If you are going to get helpful responses, I think you need to provide a bit more explanation as to what issues are concerning you. In broad terms access problems for groundworkers on housebuilding and other construction sites is usually about things like uneven, soft etc surfaces and getting down into excavations and back out, whilst at the same time not being crushed by moving plant or coming into proximity ontact with overhead, underground and other "services". So whether an individual house has reached the stage of putting in a DPC perhaps not a stage in the process where conditions suddenly change that much. However, it seems obvious that some particular aspect is concerning you. What is it?
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Morning, once we have dug and poured the footing, we then build the brickwork up to DPC, the groundworkers then ned to access the inside of the brickwork to istall drainage etc. depending on finished external floor level the brickwork can be anything from approximatly 20 - 80cm high. I think it may be something I need to look at in relation to access. I would imagine most/all groundworks companies have the same issue and wondered if someone had come up with a reasonably practicable solution.
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Hi Temeraire Let's assume for a moment that the brickwork is all 800mm high at this point in the construction programme. Some workers would attempt to climb or jump over the brickwork - do-able but risky. But usually there would be a doorway, and that would provide much easier access. What might be needed for the internal drainage inside the building would be measures to provide a relatively level surface (before e.g. a ground slab is poured) Some boarding?
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