Pest Control For Building
and Construction Site
Protect your site from termite infestation by taking proactive steps to keep these destructive pests away. Prevent property damage and reduce the risk of your building collapsing in the future.
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Building and Construction
Construction site can be extremely stressful without proper planning, regularly inspection and control measures. Prior to construction projects, you need to do a lot of things like obtaining permits, ordering materials and manpower. Getting a pest control company might be the least priority when in fact, construction sites have many potential risks. One of them is mosquito breeding, without a construction site mosquito control, fines can reach up to thousand of dollars.
With various location to hide, breed, shelter, to easy access to food and water during construction process. Construction sites work environment provide a perfect location for numerous types of pests to thrive. Pest infestations can destroy the project structure, damage materials, and pose unnecessary health and safety risks for your workers.
A pest issue can jeopardise the entire project, driving costs to go up drastically. In the worst cases, work can stopped, causing delays that are expensive and wasteful of resources. You can prevent this from happening by engaging Innovative Pest Management. We offer pest control treatment for buildings that will help you control any pest problems.
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How to Integrate Pest Control into Building and Construction Site in Singapore?
New construction can disturb pests from their natural habitat, forcing them to search for a new home. An area that provides shelter, water, and food, all the necessity for their survival. If their new home is your building premises, it will lead to major problems. Not only are pests unpleasant, they can pose serious risk to health and safety of your residents.
Cockroaches reproduce rapidly and can spread diseases by contaminating food, and even cause allergy reaction. Rats and mice carry several diseases and known to cause structural damage within the premises. Rodents chew on anything like wood, wires, and materials during construction. They gnaw to build nests and find food which is dangerous for working at height construction workers.
The subterranean termites, famously known for causing massive structural damage if left undetected without any termite treatment. Termite infestation happens all too frequently and a common issue to construction sites, hence their nick name, “silent destroyer.”
Laying the Building Foundation
Start construction with a plan to prevent pests from causing problems at your project site. Before starting work at any construction, make sure that you do the following safe work procedures:
- Meet Innovative Pest Management specialist and discuss how to incorporate pest management into the process. Crucial that enforcement actions for both parties to be on the same page working as a team.
- Our specialist will assess for any pest activity within the area prior to construction job. This is to determine the preventive measures needed to help reduce pest.
- Choose a non cellulose building materials to help prevent termites. And perform an anti termite soil treatment during construction and avoid all wood to ground contact.
- Thoroughly examine all incoming raw materials for any signs of pests. Before bringing them to the project location.
Constructing the Framework
Once you have a plan in place, the workers can begin working in construction site. As the constructions starts and your property becomes more vulnerable to pests. Follow these tips to stay vigilant and keep pests out:
- Our specialist will set out bait and traps around building materials and the exterior of your site. This step will not only prevent National Environment Agency (NEA) fine for mosquito breeding in construction site. It stops mosquitoes from breeding on your property, which can lead to a dengue outbreak in the area.
- Properly grade the site according to the WSQ apply workplace safety ensuring water flows away from the structure. Moisture will attracts pests like termites and mosquitoes and repeat mosquito breeding offence can be devastating.
- Remind workers to maintain the construction site rest area clean. Food, trash and wood debris can attract unwanted pests and needs to be dispose of daily.
- When it is time for landscape, avoid plants that will attract pests such as fruit trees, flowering shrubs, and underground cover.
The Building Site Final Touch
Once the building is complete, you will have to make sure that it is pest proof. Work with our specialist to incorporate tips to avoid any future pest infestations:
- Install sodium vapour lightings, they are less attractive to flying pests instead of mercury vapour or fluorescent lightings.
- Ensure that all the doors and windows are flush against the frames. Install weather strips to avoid smaller pests from squeezing their way into your building.
- Make it a site mandatory to install half a meter of gravel strip surround the building. Rodents do not like to be in expose area and this will provide a zero cover zone. The gravel will create a rougher terrain for pests to traverse.
- Keep landscape plants at least a few feet away from the building as it can provide moisture and hide pest activities. Branches that touches the side of the building will create a passageway for pests leading into your building.
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Why is it Important to get a Pest control for Building and Construction Industry?
Equipments are everywhere, tools maybe lying around with wood debris are all over the place. Unfinished buildings have a lot of unsealed entrances which makes it easy for pests to enter. Pests can damage materials and make workers sick, leading to project delays.
What are the type of Pests usually found in Building and Construction site?
Insulation materials in construction sites commonly attract rats and mice, providing an ideal nesting ground. You can encounter termites or carpenter ant that will attack wood material which will damage supporting structures or fixtures. Debris and standing water can also lure other insects like mosquitoes.
What does NEA officer look for when they conduct spot check at Construction sites?
Construction site contains numerous potential breeding areas. NEA officers will regularly conduct random spot check to look for mosquito breeding in areas such as:
- Empty containers and building wastes, shed, and site offices
- Construction building materials, canvas, equipment, and machinery equipment
- Standing water or pool of water on the ground
- Pool of water on the concrete floors of all levels and basements grounds
- Storage drums and containers
- Bulky wastage containers
- Waterway or Trenches
- Lift wells
- Safety barriers
- Rooftops and water supply tanks
- Treatment plants
What happens if multiple Mosquito breeding habitats detect by NEA officer?
The project site will be instruct and issue with a Stop Work Order, to rectify matters. With Integrated Pest Management solution approach, our pest control service specialist can solve the problem in a timely manner.
How can I determine if I am in an active dengue outbreaks area?
National Environment Agency updates active dengue cluster area on a daily basis. You can click here to have the latest information to stay vigilant.
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