Island Construction Camp in The South Pacific: A 300-Person Planning Scheme

Project summary. This case describes a planning scheme for an island construction camp on Island X in the South Pacific. The camp is sized for 300 people on 12,136 sqm and is planned for a 12-month service period.

Accommodation, a dining hall and kitchen, toilets, showers, a medical center, offices, a recreation room, laundry and equipment rooms sit on one site. Power supply and distribution, water supply and drainage, network connectivity and fire safety are planned in the same package. Project stage: planning scheme.

• Island X in the South Pacific has a tropical climate with high humidity; salt spray corrosion and cyclone risks are listed as hazards.
• The island construction camp is planned for 300 people on 12,136 sqm with a 12-month service period.
• The restaurant and kitchen tent measures 42.5 m × 11 m × 2.8 m, and its public dining hall seats 108 people at the same time.
• Six accommodation tents are planned: two Model 1 tents (38.2 m × 15.9 m × 4 m) and four Model 2 tents (36 m × 15.9 m × 4 m).
• The clinic and office building is a two-story tent measuring 20 m × 15 m × 3 m.
• Building foundations must be level to within 10 mm, with slopes at drainage points.
• A total electrical load of 740 kW is reserved as a preliminary estimate.

The lane map marks a Main Camp Entrance/Exit and a Backdoor. The perimeter fence has a recommended height of 2.5 m, and solar streetlights are installed on the perimeter fence posts.

The camp's receiving, cold storage, kitchen and dining hall sit in one tent, and its public dining hall seats 108 people at once. The restaurant and kitchen tent measures 42.5 m × 11 m × 2.8 m. Its roof is 850 g PVC tarpaulin with aluminum foil cotton insulation, and its walls are PEVA tarpaulin with aluminum foil cotton insulation. The main frame is 100 × 100 mm galvanized square steel tubing.

The restaurant floor plan labels the pickup lane, freezer warehouse, refrigerated warehouse, storage area, receiving/inspection area, rough processing area, kitchen area, utility room, public dining hall and private room, and marks barrier-free access.

Deliveries reach an unloading area and a receiving/inspection area with one equipment cabinet, one inspection table and three trolleys. The same section holds a walk-in freezer, a walk-in cold store and a storage room with two 1.2 m freezers and four 1.8 m refrigerated display cabinets.

The rough processing area includes a meat and egg processing/washing station, a seafood preparation/cleaning station, and a fruit and vegetable preparation table and washing station. The hot processing and cleaning area covers steamer, oven, soup pot, wok, gas stove, exhaust system, dishwasher and disinfection cabinet, among other items.

A food transfer window, a food pass-through window and a cold dish preparation room connect the work areas. The utility room holds an air shower, a 700 L water heater, a sedimentation tank and an oil-water separator.

The public dining hall is planned for 108 people dining at the same time, with dining tables, a bar table, a food pickup and condiment station, a tableware sterilizer and a cold beverage cabinet. A private room has a dining table, sofa, coffee table and sideboard.

The toilet tent measures 12.5 m × 6 m × 2.5 m. It has an 850 g PVC tarpaulin roof, PEVA tarpaulin walls, aluminum foil cotton insulation and an 80 × 80 × 2.0 mm galvanized square tubing frame.

The shower room measures 25 m × 9.5 m × 3 m. The roof is 850 g PVC fabric, the walls are 650 g PVC sidewalls with windows, and the main material is 68 mm × 122 mm × 3.0 mm aluminum profile.

The clinic and office is a two-story tent of 20 m × 15 m × 3 m, built on a 120 mm × 300 mm × 5.0 mm aluminum frame with solid walls and double-glazed tempered glass curtain walls.

The ground floor holds the service desk, waiting area, consultation rooms, observation room, debridement and dressing room, resuscitation room, patient room, duty room, storage room, toilets and a payment and medication collection counter. The second floor holds offices, a meeting room, a resource room and a tea bar. For field medical units, see CWTC's mobile hospital range.

The recreation room is 16.6 m × 14.6 m × 3 m with a 150 mm × 108 mm × 3.0 mm aluminum frame. It includes a prayer room, a card and board game room and a TV room, separated by solid partition walls for sound insulation.

The laundry room measures 36 m × 12.4 m × 3 m with an 88 × 166 × 3.0 mm aluminum profile frame, an 850 g PVC fabric roof and 650 g PVC fabric walls.

The equipment/storage room measures 42 m × 10 m × 5 m with an 88 × 166 × 3.0 mm aluminum profile frame, an aluminum foil insulated roof, and 650 g PVC sidewalls with fabric windows and aluminum foil cotton insulation. At 5 m, it has the highest eave height among the structures listed for the camp.