2023-11-29 05:00:00
The week is very rough weather-wise. The situation is not pleasant for anyone, especially not for the workers who are currently working in extremely muddy construction sites.
Entire construction sites covered in mud: this is the result following several weeks of precipitation. In order to avoid the problem, certain precautionary measures are put in place on construction sites:We will avoid driving construction equipment on ground that is waterlogged. We will protect it, for example with stoning or lime it with machines to treat the soil, before driving or before putting the stoning“, explains David Ksenicz, project manager on a construction site in Corroy-le-Grand (Chaumont-Gistoux).
We were almost fifteen days late
If this site is doing well, for others, the situation is more complicated. It all depends on the tasks to be performed. “Yesterday we didn’t work“, illustrates Stéphane Dupont, site manager at Isnes in Gembloux”There was so much rain that it was really impossible to lay the concrete on the linear elements.“, he justifies. Result: “We keep postponing the end of the project. We were hoping to have the work finished here by the end of November, but over three weeks, we were almost fifteen days late. We hope to still have a small window of good weather to lay the last layer of tarmac“.
This is the period which is used to enable a whole series of projects to be completed.
The month of November was particularly rainy this year. However, this is a crucial period for the sector. “It is true that the month of November is the period which is used to enable the completion of a whole series of projects which sometimes require operations with dry weather before the arrival of winter to free up the ways“, explains Héloïse Winandy, spokesperson for SOFICO.
The rain plays spoilsport and it’s not the only one. The arrival of cold weather also hampers the completion of certain works. The Royal Meteorological Institute predicts night frosts, cold temperatures during the day, and even snow in certain regions.
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