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developed taking into account the builder's knowledge and skill, using cost planning techniques, to ensure opti- mum value for money within the budget or cost limit. Designs can be developed using the most economical methods of construction for the parti- cular project, taking into account site conditions, availability of labour and materials and plant selection.

Record output of equipment

The annual investment in plant and machinery, in Britain's construction industry has increased over the last ten years by 200 per cent, from £33 mil- lion in 1960 to £100 million in 1970. Thus, it is not surprising that the out- put of construction equipment was a record in 1969, reaching £230 million - some £130 million was exported, in itself another record.

The plant concerned covers not only major machines such as large earth moving tractors, scrapers and excavators, large concrete batching plants, dumpers and tower cranes, but also, most importantly, powered hand tools to speed up the fixing of second- ary components and finishings in the form of rotary and percussion drills, circular saws, screwdrivers, chase cut- ters, nailers, sanders, floaters and car- tridge hammers.

Great emphasis is placed on greater plant utilisation, recognising that idle plant is idle capital. Care must there- fore be taken in the planning stage not only in the selection of the right item of plant for the right job but also in its siting and planned workload. This is particularly true of tower cranes, where, for instance, the re-siting of a lift shaft on a large office block (with- out adversely affecting the ultimate functional use of the building) may enable one carefully sited, slightly bigger crane to perform the construc- tion function of otherwise two cranes.

The job must dance to the tune of the crane and the lifting of main con- tractors and sub-contractors materials and small plant co-ordinated in proper- ly prepared daily lifting schedules.

With increasing demands on the industry, building in Britain will pro- gressively become more capital and less labour intensive and, with greater attention to the planning, co-ordina- tion and mechanisation of finishing trades, it should be possible to exploit even further the dramatic results al- ready achieved in the rapid erection of industrialised structures.

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