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[English | 简体] Site Investigation

When the project development is decided to proceed , site investigation will be carried out by some specialist firm(s) to determine the ground / soil conditions to ascertain the suitability of the proposed site for the proposed building or civil engineering project in view of planning .

Recently , for the sake of saving the initial cost or the urgency of the project , some clients are not willing to spend too much money or time on this topic , and this practice is wrong . Experience tells that an absence of site investigation or a non-comprehensive site investigation report will most likely trigger out the following adverse effects and in turn results unforeseen expenditure : -

a) Leads to an incomplete engineering design
b) Subsequently leads to a wrongly estimated project cost
c) Subsequently leads to an insufficiently prepared Bills of Quantities
d) Subsequently leads to an inadequate method statement
e) Subsequently leads to a delayed completion date
f) Leads to subsequent claims and prolongation cost
g) Eventually results a higher completion cost than the budget

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