Site management
Happens on the site. We check that what is being built matches what was designed and calculated, coordinate the trades, and record every stage while it is still visible.
Site diary
Site: Erkelenz
Kreis Heinsberg
Entry: open
Site management and construction supervision in Erkelenz
Site management in Erkelenz. We keep the site diary for your build
You can design at a desk. You cannot build at one. Your site in Erkelenz is where it is decided whether drawings turn into a house that carries, stays dry and is finished on time. We look, we record, and we step in before a deviation becomes a defect.
- On site
- Visits set by the programme
- Recorded
- Site diary, photographs, measurement
- Field
- Building and civil engineering
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Site management is neither design nor structural work
Three services that are often thrown together. They interlock, but they happen in completely different places. Once you separate them, you know who to call.
Design
Happens at the drawing board. Plans, elevations, building application documents and working drawings are produced before the first machine arrives.
Structural design
Happens in the calculation. The analysis says which section, which reinforcement and which connection carries the loads. On paper.
The office covers all three. You can also appoint us for site management alone, when the design and the structural work sit elsewhere.
Not sure which of the three you need? Describe your project in a few lines and we will place it for you.
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A site diary, entry by entry
This is how site management runs from setting up the site to handover. The order is fixed, the dates follow your own programme.
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Setting up the site
Before the first spade goes in, access, storage areas, protection and survey points are settled. Careless work here costs days later.
Recorded Access, storage, survey
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Excavation and foundations
The formation level, the ground and the type of foundation are checked against the soil report. If the ground differs, the foundation is adjusted, not the expectation.
Recorded Formation level and ground
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Reinforcement and concrete
Before every pour the reinforcement is checked: position, lap lengths, cover. After that it is invisible for good, which is why this single visit decides so much.
Recorded Cover and bar position
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Shell and bracing
Walls, columns, lintels and floors go up. We check grid lines, opening sizes and the bracing elements against the working drawings.
Recorded Grid lines and openings
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Roof and envelope
Roof structure, anchoring, waterproofing and junctions. From here on every mistake is expensive, because it disappears behind linings.
Recorded Anchoring and junctions
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Fit out and trades
Now several firms work closely one after another. Coordination, interfaces and dates matter more than any single detail.
Recorded Interfaces and dates
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Inspection and handover
Work is checked, open points are recorded, measurements and documents are collected. What is written here is what counts later.
Recorded Open points and measurement
Every entry records what was visible on that day. That is exactly why a site diary is kept as the work goes on and not written afterwards.
Is your start on site already fixed? Tell us the date and we will plan the site visits around it.
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Who answers for what on the site
A building site has three sides. As long as it is clear where each decision is taken, questions stay short and dates hold.
The client
You appoint, you decide on changes and you release the money. Anything that moves cost or dates comes to you beforehand and not afterwards.
Site management
We represent your interests on the site: checking the work, coordinating the trades, documenting progress and reporting deviations as soon as they appear.
The contractors
The firms owe their work under the contract and the recognised rules of construction. They stay responsible for it even though we check what they build.
Site management replaces neither a contractor nor a contract. It makes sure both are honoured.
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What we take on around the site
You can appoint us for site management as a whole or add individual services. The office works in building construction and in structural civil engineering.
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Site management
Running the site on behalf of the client: dates, coordination of the trades, checking the work and keeping the record as it goes.
Result: Site run
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Construction supervision
Construction supervision in building and structural civil engineering. The comparison between drawing, analysis and what is actually installed.
Result: Work checked
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Working drawings
Working drawings and bar schedules, so the site works from a drawing rather than from a sketch.
Result: Drawings and schedules
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Tender documents
Tender documents for building and structural civil engineering, as the basis for offers you can genuinely compare.
Result: Comparable offers
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Survey of existing buildings
Measured survey and digitisation of existing buildings, where work is done in an existing structure and no usable records survive.
Result: Existing building recorded
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Structural civil engineering
Design and calculation in structural civil engineering, including special structures outside ordinary building work.
Result: Calculation and detailing
What belongs to the appointment in your case is agreed in writing beforehand. Then both sides know what was ordered.
A single service or the whole of site management: both are possible. Ask for the scope your site actually needs.
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What ends up in the project file
Documentation is not busywork. It is the only way to prove a stage of construction that nobody can see any more.
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Site diary
ProgressDate, weather, firms present, state of the works and what was agreed. Kept short, but without gaps.
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Photographic record
EvidencePhotographs of stages that disappear: reinforcement before the pour, services before plastering, waterproofing before the build up.
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Measurement
AccountsMeasured quantities as the basis for accounts, taken while the element is still accessible.
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Deviations
ReportAnything that departs from the drawings is described, located and reported. With a date, so that nobody has to reconstruct later when it was noticed.
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Handover
HandoverThe state of the building at handover, with the open points and the documents that belong to it.
The extent of the documentation is agreed before work starts and follows the project.
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The office
Ingenieurbüro Konrad Smoczynski is a design office in the Kreis Heinsberg. It works with freelance colleagues, partners and construction firms across North Rhine Westphalia.
The office designs and structurally conceives mainly detached and apartment houses, alongside structural civil engineering. Site management and construction supervision can be taken on as an option, including where the design and the structural work come from elsewhere.
For you that means the person on your site knows the analyses the work is built to. A question about how something is built does not have to be passed along first.
- Report a deviation as soon as it is visible
- Look on site rather than judge from a distance
- Put in writing what applies
- One contact through to handover
- Degree
- Master of Science RWTH, civil engineering, 2012
- Chamber
- Ingenieurkammer Bau NRW since 2017, membership number 730097
- Structural design
- Qualified structural designer 2019, number QT1542
- Submission rights
- Entitled to submit building documents in NRW 2019, number V3693
- Insurance
- Professional indemnity with VHV Allgemeine Versicherung AG
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Photographs from the site
Six stages of construction of the kind checked and recorded during site management.
The photographs show typical stages of construction and not any particular site of the office.
Is your site in Erkelenz or in the Kreis Heinsberg? Then a visit at short notice is realistic.
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Erkelenz and the Kreis Heinsberg
Erkelenz is a short drive from the office. That is why a visit to a site here is realistic at short notice rather than the week after next.
Reference projects
In Erkelenz the office has accompanied several new builds, among them detached houses, semi detached pairs and a terrace. Further projects lie in Wassenberg, Hückelhoven, Heinsberg, Neuss, Jüchen and Rothenbach.
We also work outside the district where the scope and the journey fit together. Simply tell us where the site is.
Places we cover
- Erkelenz
- Gerderath
- Golkrath
- Granterath
- Hetzerath
- Holzweiler
- Katzem
- Kückhoven
- Lövenich
- Schwanenberg
- Venrath
- Wegberg
- Hückelhoven
- Wassenberg
- Heinsberg
How often somebody is on site depends on the programme and is agreed beforehand.
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Questions about site management
What clients in Erkelenz want to know before the first visit.
It depends on the scope, the build time and the number of trades. We look at your documents and tell you the effort involved before you decide.
A main contractor runs their own site. Site management appointed by the client looks after your interests instead: the work, the dates and the record, seen from your side.
It follows the programme. A visit before a concrete pour and before elements are closed up is worth having, and in between it depends on progress.
Yes. We read into the existing drawings and analyses and run the site on that basis.
The deviation is described, photographed and reported. Then it is decided whether it is acceptable, adjusted or taken down again. All of it with a date.
Yes. Construction supervision in building and structural civil engineering can be appointed on its own, without running the site.
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The next entry
Write a few lines about where you are building and how far the design has come. We will get back to you and say which visits your site genuinely needs.
- Phone
- +49 2432 907 93 00
- info@ks-ingenieur.de
- Address
- Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg, Deutschland
- Main website
- ks-ingenieur.de
This helps on the first call
- Where and what you are building
- Stage of the design or the permission
- Planned start on site
- Who designs and who calculates
- Whether contractors are appointed