The Advantages and Disadvantages of using equipment's and machineries at construction site are as follows:
Advantages:
- They help increasing the rate of output through work progress with the best effective and efficient methods.
- Reduce the overall construction costs especially for large contracts.
- Tasks which are too heavy or too delicate for human muscles to do can
be done easily by a machine or equipment.
- Carry out activities which cannot be done manually or to do them more
economically and much faster.
- Maintain the planned rate of production where there is shortage of
skilled or unskilled labor.
- Maintain high quality standards often required by present-day design
and specifications.
- There can be mobility of labor i.e. in most industries machines used
are similar. So labor can easily move from one industry to another.
- Equipment that’s still got some life in it always has a resell or
trade value.
Disadvantages:
- Machinery has made the laborer’s work monotonous and irksome.
- Only skilled labors can run successful operations on machines.
- Buying brand new equipment can be very costly and affect
- Many machine's are not considered for long term perspective , some
are for short period.
- Training workers to work on the new equipment also adds to the cost,
as company has to invest in both workers and machines.
- Taking care of storage, maintenance and transportation can also prove
a challenge.
- Frequent updates can be turned out to be a never-ending and pretty
costly process.
- Big factories pollute their surroundings and make them filthy and
insanitary.