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Can you share your contacts pls, (phone/Email) l want to discuss "work" with you.

Cheers.

msogunro:
To those that have purchased land, is it normal/acceptable to conduct a soil test before purchasing land.

It is a request I will make regardless, but just wanted to see if it is something that has been done.

opalu:
Most people do not know who a Structural Engineer is. As a COREN registered Civil/structural Engineer who by His grace rounding-up his Doctorate (@Unilorin), I have sworn †̥☺ uphold and enlighten the society abt d profession wherever I find myself.

I"d be brief and simple fø̲̣̣я̅ now. Civil Engineering has many areas of specialization like: Geotechnics, Structural, Airport, Railway, Highway and Water (put 'Engineering at their fronts fø̲̣̣я̅ me).
As a Structural Engineer, you basically determine the load/forces/stresses via structural analysis and proceed †̥☺ carry out the structural design: whereby the Engineer selects the sizes, types, positions etc of the members †̥☺ use †̥☺ withstand the anticipated ultimate loads with respect †̥☺ relevant Codes taking account of necessary factors of safety and assumptions.

@ OP, when a Qualified and Experienced Structural Engineer takes the DRAWING of the Architect and evaluates the loads, the loads reaching the soil thru the foundation at various points may be 'heavier' than what the soil can bear (Soil Bearing Capacity). So he may advice †̥☺ use Pile foundation that use 'pillar'-like concrete members in the soil. These piles transfer the loads †̥☺ good bearing strata down inside d ground. I've done 1,500 piles of 24m average at Gbagada and even 33 m deep piles at Ikorodu (Agbowa). That was like height of 11 storey buildings inside d ground.
Now if the Structural Guy discovers that Ūя̲̅ site is not entirely bad, he can suggest solid raft or beam and slab raft like so many estates we have done at Lekki axis. What a raft does is †̥☺ spread over the good and bad portions of the land so that the effects of the weak portions of the soil are neutralized by those of the strong areas. Acts monolithically sort of.

In High-rise buildings, U̶̲̥̅̊ either use both piles and raft combined or U̶̲̥̅̊ go fø̲̣̣я̅ vibrofloatation as was used in many at Marina.