Accommodation Building Designing for Construction Labor Basic Life Quality Promoting

Authors

  • Danai Bawornkiattikul Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University
  • Nantaporn Phatrabuddha Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University
  • Rotrudee Chotigawin Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University

Keywords:

Construction labor, Outside welfare, Temporary accommodation, Lay out of camp site

Abstract

Since the problem in temporary accommodation for construction labor about space and building for supporting basic living, these are composed as bedding, toilet and showering, cafeteria and sanitation management. These always be necessity facility for life quality of construction labor in Thailand. However, there are the inadequate of designing for space building including facility usage that takes the bad condition of facility usage safety and hygiene. This paper aims to design and show properness of spaces and building in camp site. By questionnaires for 300 sample labors from 3 property construction project in Chonburi. Data were composed as daily activities and need of facilities and analyzed by zone of space. The result showed that proper space and building of camp site were provided as 15 m2 / 1 labor. These space were separated as the space of accommodation for 0.85 m2, sanitation for 1.50 m2, emergency for 1.25 m2, travelling for 1 m2, recreation and retail for 1.25 m2 and open space for 5.40 m2. All content about spaces of camp site were designed as layout of space and building concretely by program sketch up version 8.0. While discussing with various studies and provision about building and facilities for living, it found that there were both agreed and opposed.

Author Biographies

Danai Bawornkiattikul, Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University

Department of Environmental Health

Nantaporn Phatrabuddha, Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University

Department of Industrial Hygiene and Safety

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Published

2022-11-17

How to Cite

Bawornkiattikul, D., Phatrabuddha, N., & Chotigawin, R. (2022). Accommodation Building Designing for Construction Labor Basic Life Quality Promoting. Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 8(2), 1–10. Retrieved from https://li02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ssstj/article/view/213

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