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Before my dad died, he warned me never to travel for Burial at all. Except the person is your direct blood. He said that it will reduce the number of times one will travel for burial and reduce drastically the risk of dying because of burial journey.
He said that in his life, he has seen too many people who died on the way to or from burials.


Rest in Peace to all the departed

Roller compactor is very good in Compacting the sand to achieve near zero void.
When the sand is fully compacted, the ground flood slab will not require so much reinforcement again like a suspended floor slab will require.
But if it is not well compacted, then the ground floor slab will just be the one carrying itself. So it's better to design and construct it as a suspended slab. Or else you het failed slab with cracked tiles

Compaction of the sand to level

Sandfill of the foundation

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This is terrible thing

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Not investing in Real Estates enough. This year, 2020, I invested just N1m in one real estate. And in 5 months, the property was worth N4m. I would have invested far more.
The investment is simple. We pull money together and buy swampy lands that is in the middle of developed areas.
Then sandfill it, develop and resell or rent out. REAL investment is what you can see and touch unlike all those unseen untouchable investments

*MODIFIED FOR THOSE ASKING ME TO EXPLAIN HOW WE DID IT.
We usually get atleast 10 persons. Then we all contribute a minimum of N1m. And we do the project. And the sharing is based on what each person contributed. It's simple as ABC. If everyone contributes 1m that means each person's share of the real estate is 10%. The last one we did most people brought more than 1m. Some especially the women brought 3m, 5m etc.. So we sold what we built in 5 months and the profits were high. Real estate far better than most investments. This year 2021 I must invest more.

Raft completed

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Raft formwork

Raft

deking:
Keep it coming. Learnt something already.

Thanks alot

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From the soil test results, I could either use short piles or 'long' beams. The cost for short piles are cheaper than the cost of deep beams. But clients always have dislike for piles. Most probably because piles have been made to appear costly. It's like giving a dog a bad name to hang it.
This is why me and a group of Geotechnical Engineers and Geologists had to form a Pile Construction company that builds piles that are less expensive than deep rafts.

So on this site, we opted to use DEEP RAFT with wide footings.

I did very wide footings to spread the incoming loads of the building. Pressure equals Force (F) divided by the Area (A).
P=F/A. So when you want to reduce the Pressure coming to the soil, you increase the Surface area. This is simple Engineering based on simple physics. Engineering is based on sound science

Good morning Brothers and Sisters, fathers and Mothers. This is to remind you that this Christmas is not your last Christmas on earth. You will live very long to see more than 80 Christmas celebrations on earth. Please don't kill yourself because of this very Christmas. Please share and save a Soul

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I so much love this Guy and his wife. God bless and keep their marriage. They will never have any scandal like most celebrities

Excavation of trenches.
And BLINDING

Compaction of the soil to achieve near-zero voids of the soil.

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Soil test

We carried out Soil test and investigation to be very sure of the capacity of weight the soil can bear and also to understand the soil strata underneath the site.
2 Standard Penetration Test (Borehole)
8 Dutch Cone Penetrometre Tests (DCPTs)
The site is 2 full plots