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A well designed poultry farm entails an open space for your battery cages or otherwise.
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Inbox me at frankitangltd@gmail.com. I'll give you a discount on what you have been offered.

What you need is to draw up a plan first.
The features within the plan is what will determine how costly the building will be.
get a free architectural drawing and a cost estimate for a token.
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Nice write-up @danemenike.

It is also pertinent to solicit for the services of an estimator to cost the proposed building as it will guide The prospective home owner to budget and keep track work executed and timeline.

omaolowo:
We started with "duplex".
It will now seem like you changed (reduced) it to "bungalow"!

Corrected

Really fantastic designs you have here . keep up with the good work.
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Your architectural designs are really fantastic . Keep up with the good work.
for your detailed Bill of Quantities (B.O.Q.), Bill of Engineering Measurements and Evaluation (BEME) or materials/labour Estimation contact me on frankitangltd@gmail.com

10 million will be sufficient for a 3 bedroom duplex if you lready have a land Depending on the architectural design and the quality of other features you chose to have within.
For free complete architectural drawing and a detailed material/labour cost breakdown for a fee contact me on frankitangltd@gmail.com

Why not invest a token on the cost estimates to be sure.
For a free complete architectural drawing and a detailed material/labour cost estimates contact me on frankitangltd@gmail.com

Before i continue on the mechanical and electrical installations drawings,

I'll like to point out strongly that how affordable your home is depends on the architectural and structural designs.
The more features you add into your house like number of rooms, sizes of the rooms, the types of of finsihing materials like tiles, water-closets etc will determine its overall cost.

Having a professional structural engineer do your design will guarrantee the most efficient general arrangements of footing, columns and beams which will proportionally impact on the quantities of concrete and steel reinforcements the building will require.

I am glad you appreciate the effort.
We can talk further on that @ frankitangltd@gmail.com
Thank you

The cost of your proposed four bedroom bungalow will largely depend on the architectural plan.
features like the room sizes, the roofing material and how costly the finishing materials like floor & wall tiles you choose to use.

Your first step is to draw up an architectural plan.

I can give you a plan free while you pay an affordable fee for the cost breakdown of the materials and labour to deliver the house to finish or to any stage you desire.

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Floor slab(decking) reinforcements detail

Showing how the rods will be placed.

The floor beam details

This shows the sizes, lengths and the different reinforcements placements in all the floor beams.

depending on the use of the building, The weights of the utilities, humans, animals, furniture, vehicles, tiles, walls, slab etc are all transferred to the beams.

The foundation layout showing The columns, strip foundation and pad footings.

Their numbers, sizes, positions and thickness of the strip foundation.

The weights of the buildings are carried from the column to the pad footings.

The pad footing spreads these loads to the soil.

Part 2: Structural Drawing

After the architectural design has been prepared to your satisfaction, the next stage is usually the structural design if there is/are suspended floor(s) (multi-storey building) in the architectural drawings. A bungalow may not need a structural design depending on the soil conditions at the proposed construction site and the design features detailed in the architectural plan.

The structural engineer determines the stresses due from all possible loads in the building and provides suitable structural element's (beams, columns, slabs, pad footing etc) arrangement and adequate reinforcements and sections to ensure stability.

In simplified terms, the architect gives You a beautiful looking building while the structural/civil engineer makes sure the building doesn't collapse.

It is important to solicit the services of professionals and I'll tell you why. On the downside, a flawed structural design of a building would most likely lead to instability - collapse of the building. Some flawed design will stand after construction but will become a time bomb biding its time. Imagine the economic wastage, all the sweat and sacrifice reduced to rubbles just because of a tiny fraction of the building's cost you would have paid a professional.

The right and left side views

The back view

Front view of the plan above

Floor plan

DESIGN STAGE

Part 1: Architectural Drawing

As a prospective Building owner, the first step is to engage the services of an architect for a building plan. Now, you can describe to the architect what you want which is called the brief. Maybe you want a three-Bedroom bungalow or a five-bedroom. Here is where you tell the architect that your wife wants a big kitchen or that you want a big living room to entertain your guests or that all rooms should be in-suite (each with its own watercloset and bath).

The architect may aid you to list out some features you may want in the building plan. You might aswell ask the architect to give you a design he deems fit for your status.

While you make these demands, do well to bear in mind that the scope and size of the building project is proportional to the quantity of materials, labor and supervision needed to deliver the job.

I will advise you to solicit the services of professionals irrespective of how tight your budget might be. In my years of experience in construction, i've met a number of home owners with very flawed building plans for their homes. In one of them, for the owner to use the bath or water-closet would have to move from his room into the living room, then out to the entrance porch to a narrow corridor where another room, the kitchen and the bath & water-closet are located. There was no backyard.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well, or so the saying goes.



Ekwueme Frank
Design, Cost & Construction Engineer
frankitangltd@gmail.com

Some fantastic designs you have here.

For their structural designs and cost estimates
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For the thicknesses of the foundation strip and the over site concrete (german floor) I made provisions for based on what I use if I were the one supervising it construction Since you didn't provide them.

I didn't observe earlier that you sketched on a graph sheet.
what is your wall thickness? 6" or 9"?

Yes I can.

But your plan is not finished yet.
To prepare the estimates, I will be needing a well detailed plan with all necessary dimensions.

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We all have dreams of owning our homes someday and for those who already do, would want to have a foothold in the Nigerian real estate business as a profit yielding investment. Even for a miniature foothold, the Nigerian statistics like
- 17 million housing units deficits
- about 50% of the population living in the urban centres and projected to grow to 70%
- 60% of the population below the age of 30
- and the Nigerian population projected to double in the next 30 years.
all support every and any investment in the real estate sector and points to a robust market for investors.

Perhaps you have already acquired a piece of land with all the necessary documents and ready to take this leap to either invest in your own private residence or for commercial purposes; the difference between achieving your building project objectives ( which are execution within scope, time, cost and quality ) or not starts at this point and depends largely on how well informed you are about the processes involved therein.

Stay tuned in as I expose the processes involved for you as a prospective building owner to achieve your desired goals.