Evaluating location selection, planning, design, and cost estimate for livestock farming barn, shelter construction is the first step in livestock development and shape the conditions of the barns, shelters and the make a construction cost estimate of the farm owner for future livestock operation.
1. Evaluating location selection and planning
- During the location selection, it is required to ensure ventilation and limit the climate impact
- The barns, shelters must be built in a high location to ensure no flooding or water source impact
- The location must be away from residential areas, ensure limited environmental impacts
- It must be a little subsidence to reach a long shelf life of barns, shelters
- It must be convenient for transportation and traffic integration
The barns, shelters must be warm in winter, cool in summer, and resistant to storms splashing the water into the barns, shelters. In particular, they must be suitable for the physiological characteristics of animals.
The barns, shelters must be convenient for distributing food and water to animals, moving for care and feeding.
When constructing the barns, shelters, it is required to calculate economic efficiency (both ensure enough needs of the barns, shelters meeting the standards and save labor and materials).
The design of barns, shelters must be based on a survey of the terrain, actual natural conditions of the areas and a detailed design profile must be prepared to ensure safety factors against natural impacts and optimize a site planning.
The design of barns, shelter must be convenient for activities to both implement hygiene and disease safety for the animals and ensure the health of those participating in livestock activities.
2. Making a construction investment cost estimate
Nowadays, making a construction cost estimate is indispensable for all livestock construction investment projects because it helps the farm owners to have an overview of the total expected investment cost and control the costs correctly at begging with following benefits:
- Obtain the expected costs to proactively allocate a cash flow: Control the items that incur costs and be proactive about financial items to ensure a project progress
- Be convenient in case of loan from the banks: In addition to the design drawings, the cost estimate is a convincing legal basis for the banks to provide the loan.
- Serve as a basis for negotiation and agreement, contract signing: Making the cost estimate helps the farmers to obtain the cost of the bid package items, the direct costs such as materials, equipment and labor, thereby being proactive in negotiating and signing the agreements, contracts to ensure the benefits (For the farm owner, it will help select a contractor with a suitable price; For the contractor, it will help to ensure the desired profit).
- Making a progress for construction implementation: Making the estimate will help the farm owner to obtain the items to be done; thereby to plan the implementation progress according to each specific stage, arrange the work which should be done first, and later as a basis for making the payment stages when negotiating and signing contracts and implementing the items reasonably to avoid wasting labor and equipment due to not failure to use the capacity optimally.
- Determine the correct quantity, type, and brand of materials and equipment at beginning: Depending on the needs and initial budget, choose the appropriate type of materials to ensure the completion of the project with the desired budget because in reality, today many construction materials and equipment on the market are various with the same type but in very different prices.
- Dividing the bidding package: Dividing the bidding package will make a better control and easier contractor selection.
