Work has once again started on the new site. A great deal of reinforcing rods are being assembled and placed. While work at the moment is in daylight hours, the biggest improvement of all is in safety practices. Everyone on site is wearing a fluro safety vest and hard shoes, or shoes at least with a covered toe. There are even a sprinkling of hard hats. The site iskept immaculately neat and tidy, surfaces continually brushed and swept.
Under Vietnamese law construction can only take place during daylight hours not that this is ever adhered to, or policed. In order to work at night, the law requires the construction manager to notify the neighbors 48 hours in advance of any night work. Of course the concrete trucks can't enter the city until 9 pm and must leave by 6 am so concrete pours take place in nocturnal hours. Fun times ahead me thinks.
This is in total contract to a new restaurant that is being built on the corner adjacent. The little roofing man was laying the titles of the roof line on floors 2 and 3 above the window. Safety gear was strangely absent, until he began work right out on the outer row. Then and only then did he put on a rudimentary safety harness, a rope around his waist!

1 comment:
Dizzying! Those foundation piles should have been the noisiest. They can mix and pour their own concrete like they did over the back of the buildings across the road. Day time work.
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