Empty pieces of land are always ideal to put up a residential or commercial complex. This gives people a place to live or work.
Before any of this can happen, the construction crew has to do the dirty work of putting up the building. This means using calibrated equipment such as measuring scales and meters so there won’t be any problems when it is fully erected.
After the ground breaking, this is the time the construction crew comes in. There will be a lot of workers as well as heavy equipment since not everything can be moved by hand.
A good example of heavy equipment is the crane. Some contractors already have a unit while others just rent it out until the project is complete. This comes in various sizes, which allows the crew to lift something and transfer it from place to another.
Before any load is placed on a platform, a calibrated device known as a scale has to be used first in getting the weight of the load. If the load for example is a ton and the crane is 5 tons, there won’t be any problem lifting it off the ground.
If this is too heavy, some of the items have to be unloaded so there won’t be any problems later on. This does not have to happen should there be a bigger crane also on site.
When the contractors are installing the wiring throughout the building, calibrated meters are used so the right voltage is used in the fuse boxes and the proper wattage for the lighting of each room.
Each of these measurements that have been set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology have to be followed so that short circuits and incidents of electrocution can be avoided for the construction crew and the occupants of the building.
The finishing touch for the building is the installation of the meter for both water and electricity. The measurement for power will also either be in volts or watts while the one will be in the volume of liters consumed.
Representatives from the water and power company will drop by to check on these readings so the owner of the building will be billed properly. If there are tenants or this is being leased out to other people, the person in charge can split the total amount or send the bill to each one if each office or resident should each have its own meter.
Jose Amoros
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