bugmenot: Aventures, I continue to doff my hat for you o. Well done!

What are the pros and cons of doing a frame structure building? Cost, strength of building, expertise? No doubt either approach works as seen from the different threads on nairaland.

Aventures:
sir going thru this tread will give an insight to the pros and cons of framed structure building. But let me just do a re-cap generally buildings in area such as lekki, Ajah and any area where the soil bearing capacity is low and building are prone to settlement are supposed to be built as framed structure. The procedure is simply to construct all the structural members first and ensure that all the members are rigidly connected together (the structural design would have specify hw this is to be done, the design would have also taken to consideration thst the block wall will only act as partitioning wall only and not part of strucctural member). Though this can also be achived by conventional method of building the block wall, cast the columns and beam one after the other but the effectiveness can not be like constructing the structural member first b4 the block wall.
Cost wise, there is little or no significant different if well managed. framed structure method is faster and much more safe stronger and better.

Aventures: @bugemont. Every other material is ok; but i av some doubt concerning rfct i think is on high side, but i cant be precisr on wout d structural drg. Also d labours are a bit high u can negotiate down to abt 70 percent of those charges wt d exception of supervision. Meanwhile, it is not advisable that the pillar shld be casted along wt d slabs. They shld be done seperately. Goodluck

Aventures: The roof covering completed