5. Site protection during the operation

5.1 Setting up execution teams

Once planning permission has been obtained, contractors selected and contracts signed, construction begins with an incompressible 30-day preparation period. This period allows the first companies to set up their construction teams. For example, for large-scale construction projects, these include the site manager, site supervisors, foremen, team leaders, journeymen and laborers, not to mention machine operators from the concrete batching plant to the crane operator; for small-scale operations, such as a single-family home, a non-resident site foreman (i.e. one who manages several sites), a site manager, one or two foremen, and journeymen and laborers are all that's needed to form a team. Concrete can be supplied by an external plant or by an on-site...