SUITABLE SITE SELECTION
Site can be define as any part of earth crust where development is been carried out irrespective of size. Also it is a place where building, town, development, project features is located.
As a matter of fact site mean so many things to different people irrespective of their professional engagement.
A police man can refer site as an accidental arena or environment, garden or avenue of criminal.
An estate surveyor can take meaning of site as a collection or group of building emerge for tenancy.
A contractor can interpret the site meaning as a place where construction work like road, building, dam, electricity, is been carried out.
As a physical planner, a site can be use as a space where a spatial activities has to be developed.
All site are equal yet varying in important aspect of human environment which has a biological, sociological or psychological impact on users. This impact can be viewed in the set of displacement of the users from environment of the users. Change or movement of such users from such environment or site has no psychology impact. Perhaps, there is doubt that site varies from each others i.e no two site are the same.
There are many consideration which will describe variations in site. This factors either aggregate or singularize may be responsible for the uniqueness of site. Which are:
Location characteristics
Soil type
Rock formation
topography
Service available
Surface and underground water
Vegetation
Population
Adjacent development
Location characteristics
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Choosing best and adorable site location is one of the best decision as a site owner. And this will make other feature to be more encouraging. Location is the grass root of foundational decision which other features lies.
Soil type
Soil is the uppermost layer of the earth crust which made up of turning grain of rocks, water, and air. The selection of best site which suit the pre-determine project will strongly depend on the advice of professional.
Topography
The nature of land in particular is otherwise known as land slope features. Shape, texture, and even component differ from each other. The shape of particular land can be gentle, moderate, flat, steep, and can be rugged each of these features can be best express in degree of gradient
Vegetative cover
The vegetative cover of the natural land comprises of thick vegetation, wood land, grass land and crop land. It may be land that has been eaten up by desertification of land and in the process, drying up.
Conclusion
Choosing a suitable site play an important role in living a comfort life. Many get it wrong in site selection which leads to problem in their life.
Although all this features cannot be considered but the more consideration you give to it, the more you live a comfortable life. This particular write up is not only for those that are capable of buying or build house but still for those that rent. Starting from where is the site locate to my place of work, and how far will it take me to reach my place of work. What are the facilities that make me to chose this alternative.