free2blast:
CONGRATS, MINIMUM SPACE UTILIZED MAXIMALLY.

mightyhazel:
Buriful!

Great pace of work. The workmen even work at nights. How do u motivate dem?





Nice dpc for a water prone area too.

Arinze86:
Dear engineer, I advice u should go bck to ur books nd apply a differnt type of foundation...from a clear view, the site is a water area or whteva seen d heavy flow of water insde ur trench....i advice for a proper raft foundation...meanwhile...what is the type of foundation u designed for d building?

Pamelayoung:


Nice job bro, hope I can contact u to build 4 me in Awka, but I'm still looking for land.

Pamelayoung:


Sorry pls, am a novice in this but I need to ask, where you pumping the water out or into a storage tank since u will still be needing water.

innovestor:
Good Morning,

There is a question i want to ask, probably out of ignorance or out of the need to know why things are "traditionally" done which could be corrected.

I see from the foundation (and all building foundations for that matter) that there are blocks laid for the internal building partitioning prior to blinding. Is this really necessary going by the fact that you did blind casting on the external areas of the building.

To be put in other words, do we really need the internal partitioning with blocks, only for it to be covered with sand and blinded off, and going by the fact that they don't bear the load of the building (only the pillars bear the load of the entire building).

Thanks for your response (or that of any other person) in advance.

P.S. I love your design. I think this is the new "fashion" in modern buildings. Let me have your contact so we do small business offline as i see you are the architect..

free2blast:
CONGRATS, MINIMUM SPACE UTILIZED MAXIMALLY.

mixratio:
You didn't use a dpm despite the very obvious water logged nature of your site. May I ask why?

popefrank2016:
[color=#006600][/color]This is a big task, it once happened to me! But in mai own, the foundation collapsed and we started all over again!!! Its an experienced Engr. To do a nice work there!! Kudos

EgunMogaji:


El Maestro, i come to learn.

Why wasn't a dpc applied in this aqua prone area?

power900:
hmmmm, I have read all through line by line and from my little experience, there is a serious unprofessional work going on here, with that kind of water hovering around this place, strip foundation is not an option,not at all, its not like I am seeing red sand to be sure that its manageable.... again look the way the block work goes deep into the soil, if the rooms are compacted, wouldn't that case any consolidation or worse a parsive force on the party walls in the substructure?

not to challenged your expertize though but just thinking out loud too,okay

iamademola:
well done sir, but may i ask, how do you stop or rectify the hole/holes where the ground water is coming out into the trench?. because to me there seems to be an aquifer.

dubemcapital:


the dpm used in this project is a sizeable loomp stone. I also made a very high foundation as one of the best ways to control damp.

zealed64:
this is lovely.

StDonE:
This is definitely Nike in Enugu. That area is full of water. I was building a three storey at Onungene precisely in 2014 around d same time of August and we met a terrible water that was flooding the whole of foundation. And because of d nature of the water there, we needed heavy reinforcement. So at the end; I had spent abt N10 million just from foundation to the first floor. It was a sad experience that I regretted buying the land

LondonCool:
Well done. Are there any picture updates on the progress so far?

Did you engage a Structural Engineer at any stage of the building work?

olumide4christ:


Internal partition walls are necessary. You are right about the fact that in a framed structure, only the pillars (columns) & beams bear the load of the building & transfer it to the foundation. However, it should be noted that in a framed structure building, partition walls above the ground floor bed (or dpc), though they don't carry the load of the building, also exert their own weight on the floor bed (or dpc). As such, if there are no corresponding partition walls in the foundation to counteract the pressure exerted by the weight of the partition walls above the dpc, the walls above the dpc would create a 'punching' effect on the dpc, thereby causing cracks on the dpc along the lines of the walls. I saw this happen in an estate in Abuja sometime last year.

I hope you understand my explanation. I would have done a small sketch, scanned & attached it for you to understand better but I'm on site now & can't do that. Its a structural issue which can only be fully explained using structural jargons & detailing.

Donchuks023:
can we see d floor plancan we see d floor plancan we see d floor plan

donbenedict:
I cover the foundations of that house with the Power of Jesus. Amen



Engr Dumbemcapital, carry on!





Have you done forecasting on the building? Foundations sink u knw.. with time when the formation underneath is continually disturbed with water.


Amen O! Yes, It has been taken care of

noble71:
Nice design bro. but I don't support this your strip foundation in a water logged area. reinforced strip foundation would have been better or raft foundation if you have the money. to avoid stories that touch.

Civil Engineer Speaking......

dubemcapital:




.....Thank you for that good idea. Well Co-Engr. if you take a good look at the soil layers you will notice that the more it goes deep the stronger it becomes, Which shows that is not a stratum Or a re-filled soil. so I decided to go on with strap but in a reinforced aggregate, now we had a pre-cast of about 6" to 8" (dry mixture all through) before the installation of the baskets, two baskets per pillar for the 46pillars, one as a bed and the other a as a carrier after which we cast up to 1ft 6" over the pillars and got the same level in all the straps, that is strap reinforcement as it implies which claimed up to 385 bags of ibeto cement. the initial depth of the footing was 1400m but after the cast work we had about 600m or less than that which I know is better than raft in this context, that is the reason why the blocks in the foundation looks shallow but blocks we know is brace stud in foundations and just a demarcation after dpc. pillars are the load bearers. After which we have to chain the entire foundation up here with 16mm right round and intermediately.

Am not the type of Engineer that will jump into raft because of fear or because people raft their foundation, I think I should be able to first of all find out the kind of soup (challenge) available, only then will I be able to know the kind of Swallow (solution) that will go with it. Weather pounded yam or Fufu.

Yes because it has become a tradition In construction that the measurement are 2 or 4 head pans higher or lesser than each other when it comes to sand and stone etc. but I disagree with that. when you inspect (examine) the work, you as a professional will know The best Approach that is going to suit it. Its very simple. I Am not traditional Engineer but a construction Engineer. Thanks

mixratio:
that's nice. Please could you enlighten me about the SIZEABLE LOOMP STONE?

azz19:
Pls is there any trend I can get information about electrical services. I want to know the latest in the aspect.