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Gen2men:
Greetings all..
Please what's the condition to use a ground beam on a foundation. And is ground beam and foundation beam the same .

Thanks all

Just to add to what Engr Aforxy said

Ground beams are laid on ground just like raft (but they are not raft) they are used where the soil bearing capacity is low, they help prevent differential settlement (sinking foundation) especially when constructing a strip foundation (p.s All foundation work should follow structural engineer/drawing recommendation)

Plint beam on the other hand is provided not at the natural ground level but after some number of blocks, it is mostly used in cases when you have high foundation walls, it reduces your wall and column slenderness and prevent column buckling (Shearing) because of its height.
It also tie all columns together and make them monolithic
As a result of high foundation, lots of filling is expected in and outside of the foundation, hence the plinth beam provides another layer of support against the soil load acting on both side of the wall, in order to avoid foundation tearing.

Check out one we did on this thread

https://www.nairaland.com/6781323/construction-droyal-apartments-charisdesigns/1

Charisdesigns:
Block of Flats.

2 units of 2 bedrooms apartment
2 units of 1 bedroom Flat

Land size
499sqr meters

Construction update
https://www.nairaland.com/7538221/construction-process-bungalow-block-flats/3

Have a small plot or looking to effectively plan and manage your plot

Here’s what we did on a plot slightly less than half plot

Land size = 27 x 100ft

Design: 4 bedrooms bungalow all en-suite and cross ventilated.

https://www.nairaland.com/5783134/thread-bungalow-designs.we-offer-planningdesigning/3

Land management


A proposed 4 bedrooms bungalow on a 27 x 30ft plot

Side view

Update on our soakaway

Electrical piping underway

More update soon

Side view

More on our soakaway

horlabiyi:
Neat and nice job. Kudos

Thank you so much

RobbStark:
Nice thread and kudos to you and your team.

I just wanna say since it's a bungalow and you want to use rods for columns at some point of the house, try to most times use the columns to break a very long span of blocks to be layed.
E get why.

All the same, your job is neat and timely

Thanks for your input

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Soakaway pit

The details that makes the difference on mono pitch roof

Roof covering

Going the extra mile for our Roofing sheet

Straight lines

Roof carcass

folmus:
Did you have to chain the entire lintel round the entire building?

No
But atleast 80% of the wall was chained at lintel level

DrAkpamudehe:
What about in sqm ?

500 sqm

Building foot print is 14.85m x 8.45m ~ 126sqm.

kopell:
Well-done good job, watching your job from foundation in that difficult slope area

Thank you for following sir
We are already at the roofing stage, will keep bringing update gradually

DrAkpamudehe:
What is d plot size for this design?

50 x 100

Reinforcement

Coping

Materials arrive site

Wood from sawmill

Let us build this Mono pitch roof with all diligence

Woodwork
Coping
Roof carcass

Perspective

Putting things in perspective

More updates

Building our walls to achieve an effective slope for our monopitch roof

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