Earthworks
- Understand the key stages of planning, supervising, and delivering earthworks activities.
- Identify and apply industry best practices to achieve high-quality, compliant results.
- Select and manage appropriate plant, equipment, and resources for earthworks operations.
- Implement effective inspection, testing, and documentation procedures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental controls relevant to earthworks projects.
- Monitor productivity and adapt plans to maintain efficiency and reduce delays.
- Recognise common risks and issues in earthworks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Communicate effectively with team members, contractors, and stakeholders on site progress.
Overview
This course equips learners with practical skills and industry-best practices for supervising and managing on-site Earthworks operations. It focuses on delivering high-quality outcomes efficiently, ensuring that earthworks activities meet standards of safety, precision, and productivity.
Who should attend
Mid-level leaders in construction teams, Project managers overseeing site operations, Site agents responsible for day-to-day execution, Supervisors ensuring on-site quality and compliance, Engineers involved in earthworks planning or supervision
Course Content
This is a 1 day course–9am-4pm course and covers the following topics.
Earthworks Theory
Site Investigation And reviewing borehole information informing temporary works.
EarthworksTesting–Grading analysis, Plate Load testing moisture content. Understanding these tests and reviewing the certificates.
Earthworks Specification–The standard Highways Work Series 600 and the site-specific specification. Understanding The testing requirements and other information detailed in these specifications.
Earthwork Compaction
Understanding What method compaction is, how to plan this activity, selecting compaction equipment and control methods, including monitoring, and recording the operation.
Compaction testing–Which test to select, interpretation of the results and common issues.
Earthworks Productivity
Plan a major cut fill operation in teams to ensure the most efficient use of plant, material, and labour. Understand how to calculate volumes, placement rates, plant capacity, site restrictions, diesel consumption and carbon footprint to understand the optimum scenario.
The course contains group discussions and examples of real-life earthworks projects and documentation.
