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Smile, am not Dangote, bua or Lafarge that produce cement. I said so because the last time I contacted Ibadan Lafarge depot, they sold it at #300 difference from the general market price. Although their minimum order start from hundred

n3xt:
He should tell them he got the order from MRFIXER001 right? If this works, I need the trick too o

Cement is produced right behind my house - just about 1km away - and we still buy #3,000

It will come down with time, as an engineer have come to realize that the price of building materials increases during the ending of the year. This is so because more people tends to build during that time, the demand placed on it is always high. Contact the nearest depot in your state, you will buy it at cheaper price. Like #2800/bag

platorepublic:
Bag of cement in my area today is N3100 from N3400 last year. Location is Abeokuta

I think the price is gradually coming down

The offer is still available

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Hmm

Dpharisee:
Elon Musk produces electric cars and high powered batteries called Tesla Power Wall with 20 years warranty.
The reality is that Elon Musk is making the oil which we are still spending billions to search for in the North to become useless.
Some gas and coal power plants in UK are on the verge of shutting down because many homes can now generate their own power and even sell excess back to the grid using Power Wall and solar.

Countries like UAE and Saudi Arabia seeing the 'danger' posed by Tesla are developing futuristic models to diversify from oil which may not rebound as demand remains low coupled with the impact of Covid19.

Nigeria which failed to plan is now in a tight corner, UK and France in 2019 have already declared a 10 year deadline to phase out all petrol and diesel cars. This was what happened to coal driven locomotives years back when oil and gas was discovered.

Nigeria seeing Elon Musk gradually taking down our sole source of revenue resorted to taking loans from China, IMF, world bank, Brazil and babiya Allahring for help from every corner of the earth in taking care of either insecurity or Covid19.

Now that we have over borrowed and the likelihood of repayment from oil is now slimmer and our creditors are no longer ready to grant us more loans we are resorting to stealing people's money that are dormant in the banks to pay civil servants salaries instead of looking for the owners of the deposits and dividends

Our company did this POP, electrifying and the painting

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She's not absolutely right, there are various manufacturing companies in Africa owned by African.

Slynation:
Truth be told, she's absolutely correct....We need bitter truths like this in order to produce things locally, that doesn't mean she ain't stupid for saying that

half plot of land should be enough but it won't be a bungalow building if you want compound space. For the budgeted fund, some factors like the condition of the land, the location of the proposed site, the finishes you want to use will determine a lot.

westliverenterp:
Can half plot of land occupy 12 self contain apartment. Will 6million be enough for the project. It's a student hostel

Am interested in this too.

Although Lafarge is now producing the POP cement but to my surprise, those distributors still sell it at high price

GoodFaith:
So what is the story regarding POP cement Price
Price for POP cements?
Please all location

I will also go for ikorodu, it's far better than simawa.

It's in two ways;

1. Contract (you give the work as a contract, maybe pay 40% upfront, once the work is done you balance them up. It depends on the payment terms you agreed on)
2. Supplying labor; an engineer or expert helps you supervise the project and supplies artisans for the job. You agreed on his supervision fee regarding the project. They charge per project not per day

fid3fid:
Abeg no vex, these contractors how them they charge, per building or day pay?

Your budget is enough for a 3 bedroom bungalow

bayo2018:
Good day House
Please what’s the minimum amount one can budget on a 3 bedroom bungalow with a nice finishing

ion know much about building as this is my first time and my budget is around 12m for building. ion wanna spend much on building that’s why I’m tryna stay low.

3 bedroom
Laundry
Study room
With nice interior inclusive.
if there’s any other thing that’ll be added kindly lmk also.

Waiting for what to be precise?

Chepos1:
We are patiently waiting

Smiles

yarimo:
Mtceeew very ugly bride

Nice one

Doraty1:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/12/covid-19-makinde-suspends-curfew-for-residents-to-observe-crossover-nights/amp/

A lot of people have been commenting on this thread wonderfully. But as an engineer, I will choose building over buying.
Let's forget about the cost or taste of the client, how about the safety aspect which we all neglect.
How safe is the building?
What specifications and detailing of the structural aspect of the property was used during the building stage?
Do they use quality finishes on the building?

Buying is more like purchasing a package good, durability is not known until you start using it

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Am always happy seeing a nice construction work. Well done Engineer.

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As an engineer, I love this article but am surprised to see that it meant for real estate advert

Viktoreze:
FOUNDATIONS
The foundations of the building transfer the weight of the building to the ground.  While 'foundation' is a general word, normally, every building has a number of individual foundations, commonly called footings.  Usually each column of the building will have its own footing.

Since the weight of the building rests on the soil (or rock), engineers have to study the properties of the soil very carefully to ensure that it can carry the loads imposed by the building.  It is common for engineers to determine the safe bearing capacity of the soil after such study.  As the name suggests, this is the amount of weight per unit area the soil can bear.  For example, the safe bearing capacity(SBC) at a location could be 20 T/m2, or tonnes per square metre.

This capacity also changes at different depths of soil. In general, the deeper one digs, the greater the SBC, unless there are pockets of weak soil in the earth. To properly support a building, the soil must be very firm and strong.  It is common for the soil near the surface of the earth to be loose and weak.  If a building is rested on this soil, it will sink into the earth like a ship in water.  Building contractors will usually dig until they reach very firm, strong, soil that cannot be dug up easily before constructing a foundation.

To study the properties of the soil before designing foundations, engineers will ask for a soil investigation to be done.  A soil investigation engineer will drill a 4" or 6" hollow pipe into the ground, and will remove samples of the earth while doing so.  He will then send these samples to a lab to find out the detailed properties of the soil at every depth.  Soil is usually composed of strata, or different layers, each with its own set of properties.  Drilling technology today makes it easy and economical to drill to great depths, easily several hundred metres or more, even in hard rock. 

The soil investigation team will then prepare a soil investigation report that lists the engineering properties of the soil at regular intervals, say every 2 meters. Based on this deport, engineers designing the structure can decide at what depth of soil to provide the foundations, the type of foundations they should provide, and the size of the foundations.

Every once in a while, engineers will find fill at a site.  This occurs when humans have previously dug up the earth there, and then filled it back in.  This happens if a quarry was dug or a building built there previously.  Since fill is loose and soft and cannot support weight, engineers will dig to a depth below that of the fill, where strong soil is found, and construct foundations there.

The study of soil, and its properties and behavior, is called soil mechanics.

TYPES OF FOUNDATIONS
Read our introduction to foundations if you have missed it.

In this article we will discuss the common types of foundations in buildings. Broadly speaking, all foundations are divided into two categories: shallow foundations and deep foundations. The words shallow and deep refer to the depth of soil in which the foundation is made. Shallow foundations can be made in depths of as little as 3ft (1m), while deep foundations can be made at depths of 60 - 200ft (20 - 65m). Shallow foundations are used for small, light buildings, while deep ones are for large, heavy buildings.
SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS
Shallow foundations are also called spread footings or open footings. The 'open' refers to the fact that the foundations are made by first excavating all the earth till the bottom of the footing, and then constructing the footing. During the early stages of work, the entire footing is visible to the eye, and is therefore called an open foundation. The idea is that each footing takes the concentrated load of the column and spreads it out over a large area, so that the actual weight on the soil does not exceed the safe bearing capacity of the soil.

There are several kinds of shallow footings: individual footings, strip footings and raft foundations.

In cold climates, shallow foundations must be protected from freezing. This is because water in the soil around the foundation can freeze and expand, thereby damaging the foundation. These foundations should be built below the frost line, which is the level in the ground above which freezing occurs. If they cannot be built below the frost line, they should be protected by insulation: normally a little heat from the building will permeate into the soil and prevent freezing.


INDIVIDUAL FOOTINGS

Individual footings awaiting concreting of the footing column.
Individual footings are one of the most simple and common types of foundations.  These are used when the load of the building is carried by columns. Usually, each column will have its own footing. The footing is just a square or rectangular pad of concrete on which the column sits. To get a very rough idea of the size of the footing, the engineer will take the total load on the column and divide it by the safe bearing capacity (SBC) of the soil. For example, if a column has a vertical load of 10T, and the SBC of the soil is 10T/m2, then the area of the footing will be 1m2. In practice, the designer will look at many other factors before preparing a construction design for the footing.

Individual footings connected by a plinth beam. Note that the footings have been cast on top of beds of plain cement concrete (PCC), which has been done to create a level, firm base for the footing.
Individual footings are usually connected by a plinth beam, a horizontal beam that is built at ground or below ground level.
STRIP FOOTINGS
Strip footings are commonly found in load-bearing masonry construction, and act as a long strip that supports the weight of an entire wall.  These are used where the building loads are carried by entire walls rather than isolated columns, such as in older buildings made of masonry.
RAFT OR MAT FOUNDATIONS
Raft Foundations, also called Mat Foundations, are most often used when basements are to be constructed. In a raft, the entire basement floor slab acts as the foundation; the weight of the building is spread evenly over the entire footprint of the building. It is called a raft because the building is like a vessel that 'floats' in a sea of soil.

Mat Foundations are used where the soil is week, and therefore building loads have to be spread over a large area, or where columns are closely spaced, which means that if individual footings were used, they would touch each other.
DEEP FOUNDATIONS
PILE FOUNDATIONS
A pile is basically a long cylinder of a strong material such as concrete that is pushed into the ground so that structures can be supported on top of it.

Pile foundations are used in the following situations:
When there is a layer of weak soil at the surface. This layer cannot support the weight of the building, so the loads of the building have to bypass this layer and be transferred to the layer of stronger soil or rock that is below the weak layer.
When a building has very heavy, concentrated loads, such as in a high rise structure.

Pile foundations are capable of taking higher loads than spread footings.

There are two types of pile foundations, each of which works in its own way.


End Bearing Piles

In end bearing piles, the bottom end of the pile rests on a layer of especially strong soil or rock. The load of the building is transferred through the pile onto the strong layer. In a sense, this pile acts like a column. The key principle is that the bottom end rests on the surface which is the intersection of a weak and strong layer. The load therefore bypasses the weak layer and is safely transferred to the strong layer.

Friction Piles

Friction piles work on a different principle. The pile transfers the load of the building to the soil across the full height of the pile, by friction. In other words, the entire surface of the pile, which is cylindrical in shape, works to transfer the forces to the soil. 

To visualise how this works, imagine you are pushing a solid metal rod of say 4mm diameter into a tub of frozen ice cream. Once you have pushed it in, it is strong enough to support some load. The greater the embedment depth in the ice cream, the more load it can support. This is very similar to how a friction pile works. In a friction pile, the amount of load a pile can support is directly proportionate to its length.


In practice, however, each pile resists load by a combination of end bearing and friction.

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Very simple, take it to the local government where the land is located for verification

The length of reinforcement is 30ft

Larry1960:
Please what is the length of reinforcement?

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