The construction camp is made up of provisional buildings that will serve as: offices and accommodation for the contractor's and construction supervisor's personnel (engineers, technicians and workers), warehouses, dining rooms, earth, concrete and asphalt laboratories, and equipment repair and maintenance workshops.

It is also located: the contractor's and supervisor's offices and any other installation that is required on site for the execution of the work.

The location of the camps, their warehouses and other necessary temporary constructions must be previously authorized by the supervisor and respect the environmental protection standards in force in the country, or established by the financier of the work. It must have an environmental impact study. When the work has been completed, the original state of the area must be restored to maintain the surrounding landscape.

Depending on the importance and location of the work, the camps can be extremely important works, for example in the case of the construction of a dam "Dam (hydraulic)"), in a remote place, this may contain a small city, which must be provided with basic services, such as water supply, drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, electricity supply, medical services, school, etc. These "small cities" are sometimes built outside the basin that will be flooded by the reservoir, and are transformed in the future into permanent small cities with a life of their own. Other times, they are built below the flood level of the reservoir, with the intention of minimizing the permanent environmental impact on the area.

The facilities of the construction personnel must seek the comfort and safety of the people involved, such as good ventilation and lighting and quantifying an area of ​​60 m which must include:.

Care: before starting the construction of the booths, the temporary service installations and the conditioning of the work areas, the stripping and cleaning of the land must be carried out by means of cuts and filling, at the same time with the protection works of adequate signage where it must be informative and preventive for all construction personnel, and the use of helmets must be required within the work.

Materials: for the camp you can use:.