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Erums:
Oga n3xt..... Pls howmany bags of cement with it cost to plaster a 3/2bedroom semi detached bungalow.. All ensuite.. Pls this is urgent..

My engineer said he needs 120 bags... Guys Pls advice me

Give him 80 bags

Let’s assume you’re using 4 bags per room which is impossible. 80 bags would do fine regardless the size of your project.

Main Lounge - 2
Bedrooms - 5
Kitchen - 2
Dining - 2
Ante Room - 2
Toilets - 7

Jumyg:
Oga Spyder, you dey fight me. I was the first to comment and no thanks to me.
I can understand, it's because l do not comment so often like others.

walexProjects:
From MEP point of view,I will go with option one.
When you have a structure like this,it's very easy do the designs of your systems.you don't have too many complicated systems.
For Electrical circuiting, lighting and power is as simple as possible.
Your water distribution system is also well planned.that cannot be compared with structure 2.
In all you will have better functionality and maintenance in building 1 compared to 2.

Complicated is the right word. The middle flat will always be at disadvantage.

spyder880:
Good evening my people, let's pause to consider this. Which arrangement of this 6 flats of 3 bedrooms do you think will be more costly to build from start to finish? All flats have same sizes of rooms. Option 1 has 2 flats on each floor, while option 2 has 3 flats on each floor.

Why do you think each type will cost more?

Which do you think will make more rental income for the owner?

If you're renting, which would you love to live in?

We will be assuming that the land for building both houses is the same.

The first 2 pictures are option 1.

The last 2 pictures are option 2.

Option 1 will be cheaper to build than Option 2 when you consider the following:

1. Shape | The shape of a building has a significant effect on cost. The complex the shape the more expensive it will be.

2. Size of the footprint | The foundation accounts for almost 30% of your construction cost. The larger the building, the more expensive it becomes when you consider the setting out cost, time to build, material requirement and wastages.

3. Functionality | You’ll have better functionality in a compact and repetitive design than you’ll get in complex layouts. Option 2 will be slower to assemble and maintain when you consider building services.
Building with considerable repetition are economical to produce. Apart from the civil works, the cost of components and fittings is the same for all flats. It’s not the same when you have a complex layout like option 2.

4. Circulation Space | Option 1 will do better here. Think of what it’ll cost to achieve cross ventilation in all rooms.
Option 1 will offer more productive space.

5. Security | Option 1 will also do better here.

6. Curb Appeal | The importance of curb appeal can’t be overemphasized. It is the first impression of a property before most tenant will even step inside. A taller building would appeal more than a dwarf building.

The aesthetic look of the exterior gives your target market what to expect at the other side of the front door.

7. Finishing | I won’t be able to dwell on this but it’ll cost you more to do the POP of Option 2. It’ll also cost you more to do plumbing in Option 2. Even the cost of your concrete fascia, roofing woodwork, roofing sheets/tiles, etc.

8. Value | Option 1 has higher resale value when you consider the ample space left for parking and the number of storey

I hope this will help your client make an informed decision.

MrOkenwa:
Baba, Can you give your metal works oven baked finish if requested for?
When I get to that stage, I’m looking at installing pergola in 2 small spaces in my ongoing build.

Sure we can do that.

We have just picked some nice toys to achieve better finish. Also looking at having a collapsible pvc spraying booth.

rajput4real93:
Brother, how much would this cost? And what is the thickness of the material? It looks nice

Price: 280k
Material Thickness: 1.2mm
Frame: 100 x 50mm
Slat: 50 x 25mm

Gate Size (excluding roller height)

Main Gate: 4000 x 1300mm
Pedestrian Gate: 900 x 1300mm

Finish: Stainless Handle, Matt Black

Badgers14:
Hmmm .. look at that block work... it looks so embarrassed like it didn't want nothing to do with the bad plastering job.

Almost saying get off me

The block is saying “Free Me!”

...the decking of the single room I’m staying here in Ibadan crashed and it spoiled a lot of my things in my room...

#IbadanBuilders

I saw something almost similar on a wall in Ologuneru, Ibadan some months ago.

Is it that there are no good plaster sand in Ibadan or our folks don’t understand how to do good mix?

Is Brabus Now A Welder

Smiles. It didn’t start now! We’ve been doing this as far back as 2012.

NextHome is a complete design and build company. All our custom designs are done in-house by our construction crew under strict supervision.


Pic: Clean prefab tank stand, 2013
Pic: Gate

Aspen by NextHome

Providing a distinctive identity beyond security.

#moderngate #modernfencerail #construction update #ileode2

Alternative Building Solution | Liquid Nail

I’d share more on this material at a later time here and on my personal space on kobocity.com

Simplifying Complexities. Delivering Possibilities.

#smartconstruction #polyurethane #nexthome

akinola98:
It is TIME that differentiate between a good job and a bad one

I agree with this.

When I bought my Mack Dump truck some years back, I decided to park it inside my compound

The driver drove on the concrete floor and it was as if it was specially built for trucks.

The experience wasn’t same when we had to deliver some materials in one of my clients project, the dump truck went on the floor and we were surprised to see cracks all over the space.

The big difference is in the sub-base preparation. I had a grader and road roller working for one week on my ground to adequately compact the subgrade. This was also consolidated with lime to stabilize the subgrade soil.

Please note “Concrete is only as good as what is beneath it.” - Brabus

________

I’m currently working on a floor and we’ve spent over 3 weeks on sub-base preparation. Someone asked me “Wont it be cheaper for you to hire a compactor to do the job instead of bringing yours?

I smiled and told the person “I know a 24-hour compaction won’t give me the result I needed here. I’m bringing my own 150kg plate compactor to work on this. I’d rather spend more money and time on the sub-base preparation than save more money hiring a plate compactor to compact a loose and disturbed soil for just 24 hours.”

#time

true2home:
If you guys remember way back, we had this discussion. I never do the full Tile thing in any of my building. Its nothing but a waste. The theory was that Tenant will not rent for market price if not done fully.

Well, i experimented and guess what? Going over three years now and 100% occupancy and not a single tenant complained yet. Also, the Rood type, the POP, and Screeding myth; Didn't make much difference. The ONLY thing the tenants are looking for is CLEANLINESS, and Generous Landlord( Big Space).

But to be fair though, on a PRIVATE HOME, all these DO make a lot of sense. MHO

Succinctly put.

When the request is “wow me”

Pic 1 & 2 | Ilé Ode 1 by NextHome
Pic 3 | Attached Pergola Fins for Ilé Ode 2 by NextHome
Pic 4 | Shape of things to come “Ilé Ode 2”

QSFemi:
Good evening all.

I want to write some notes on two terms that are not clearly understood in the context of construction contracts. I've said it here, times without number, that construction job is a contract either an expressly written contract was entered into or word of mouth agreement. As long as there is an offer to execute a job and a consideration (renumeration) for such job, a contract has already been established.

Construction job is very complex and complicated processes, as such there are bound to be issues during the construction stage. One of such prevalent issues is VARIATION. I've heard people use this word loosely, even in wrong context. So, I've make it my duty to define the word this night and differentiate it from another term that's confused for variation which is know as FLUCTUATION.

What's Variation?

According to Joint Contract Tribunal (JCT) 2011 with quantities, the term Variation means:

1) the alteration or modification of the design, quality or quantity of the works including:

(i) the addition, omission or substitution of any
work;
(ii) the alteration of the kind or standard of any of
the materials or goods to be used in the works;
(iii) the removal from site of any work executed or
site materials other than work, materials or
goods which are not in accordance with this
contract.
These are most recurring scenarios on site.

Fluctuation on the other hand refers to change in price of materials during the period of the construction contract.

Typical examples.

A change of window opening in the design to built up block work is an example of variation while the increase in the price of block from 250 during the contract bill preparation to 300 during the construction phase is an example of fluctuations.

NB: Variations in construction projects do not necessarily lead to increase in the construction cost.

These terms are very important in contract administration.

Let me stop here tonight.

Have a pleasant night rest to everybody here.

Are there circumstances whereby a contractor may claim increased costs of materials on a fixed price contract?

For me, I believe a claim for an increment in material should not arise because the essence of a fixed price contract is that the contractor prices higher taking care of such risks like fluctuation of costs.
If this discussion extend beyond this, I’d share valid reasons why I think so.

I have been involved in a project where the initial 2 year contract duration was extended by more than a year due to Variations. The Project Engineer in fairness to both the client and the contractor stood his ground and we ended up getting nothing extra. Even our prolongation cost was based on the BOQ rates.

I’m asking this question simply because I want to know if the same logic applies if the market price is halved?

danadam:
Pls do post the final output when you're done. Thanks.

I’ll definitely share.

Thanks.

_______

In the meantime, we pour the foundation today.

Nero2424:
What are we looking out for?

Nothing spectacular to be honest. Just not another Garden Tap installation.

New Challenge | A Fence Grill That’s Uniquely You!

The super lady of this project requested for something unique, cool and dramatic - a fence grill minus the pillar traditions that tick all the boxes.

She also wanted an attached pergola (Ilé Ode 2) that can serve as a perfect shaded oasis.

Lastly she wanted it like yesterday. This means I’ll be stepping inside the box create this unique steel structures.

#steelstructures #ileode2 #grills #fencerail #slidinggate #contemporaryart

Another Modern Unusual Piece | Garden Tap

>>> Installation in progress

Solar Shading | Contemporary Art

70% Plastering Work on this build were completed without a roof

- window frames installed
- first-fix pipe works completed
- ground floor POP works begun
- external plastering 80% completed except front facade
- tank slab rendered
- steel works/fabrications ongoing (built to measure)


#solarshading #pergola #contemporaryart #steelstructures

Modern Carport | Combining Elements To Shield Your Pride

@jasobry
We commence the carport fabrication and installation with the preparation of the foundation bolts.

Materials
12 bolts
6 baseplates
Reinforcements
1/2” plywood
2 bags of cement
Sand
Granite

- Foundation Excavated
- Dimension 1800mm (l) x 600mm (w) x 700mm (d)

#carport #steelstructures #contemporaryart #update

Ilé Ode by NextHome | Contemporary Art.



>>> construction of Ilé Ode 2 in progress

Ingco Cordless Spray Gun | Yay or Nay?

rotecch77:
Reber tying gun.
This will make reinforcement tying to be fast
Only one skilled Labour can’t tied slab of about 200sqm area in an hour

Nice toy. Looking to buy one soon.

theForth:
Aluco boards?

No. Aluminum sheet (cladding)

Jasobry:
Pic 1 was what I gave my welder to design for me, a Car port,cum solar panel hanger

Very nice concept. I’ll so deliver this.

topsy23:
That's external wall right? But to me I would have love the to plaster the wall and leave the paint out

Even if it’s 30 floors??

This is one of the reasons we have chemically cured red bricks for external/internal walls on multi floor projects. It doesn’t require plastering or painting.
With wall chaser machine, you can still have your services in-wall without worries.

vickzie:
Like this

Yes.

I have a section of my building that wasn’t plastered nor painted, it was only cladded with aluminum sheet and I’ve never had any issues with it.

Here’s one of the very few Nigerians who offered me platform in this life. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity and I’m so happy to give back to the younger ones.

When issues arise, we manage them. We don’t create dramas

This is one of the reason I’m always at loss when I see people creating dramas over non-issues.

I hope one day someone will share the story of the first shoprite and my role

#myverifiableprojects #structuredcabling #projectmanagement

BABSIN:

Tajudeen Owoyemi is a quintessential entrepreneur whose success story in luxury hotels across Lagos is phenomenal. With over 45 years in the building and construction industry, his experience is truly exceptional. But the establishment of Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited was only a prelude to Owoyemi’s lucrative foray into the hospitality industry. With minimal education, unblurred vision, hard work and unwavering dedication to his career, Owoyemi beat all odds to become a big player in hospitality. The Kwara-born business magnate tells Funke Olaode his story, his life and his breakthroughs.

Tajudeen Owoyemi’s story is the stuff of legends; the son of a petty trader who rose to the pinnacle of his career, first in construction, and later hospitality. With minimal education and four-year training as a plumber, Owoyemi beat the odds to become one of the wealthiest luxury hotel owners in Nigeria. He established Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited company after recording success in the construction sector. The launch of Avalon birthed the First Protea Hotel in Nigeria in the early 2000s.

As he walked in quietly into his cosy office located in Ikoyi, Lagos on a recent Tuesday afternoon, there were no airs about him. He wears simplicity like a glove.

“That is a reflection of who I am. I love to live a quiet life and I don’t really like paparazzi exposure. That is how God has created me from the onset and that is how I have lived my life,” he said.

Born on April 16, 1956, in Offa, Kwara State where he had his early life, his parents moved to Ghana when he was two years old and left him with his grandmother. Owoyemi discovered his entrepreneurial skills during that period. His passion for success was also ignited.

“I was raised by a petty trader who instilled the spirit of hard work in me. I remember after school I would hawk ‘Ekuru’ for my grandmother. And I used to go to the construction sites with a group of friends to assist in carrying sand and all that. In those days, we would pack sand from the river and stack it up to a certain level before we got paid. It was our own little contribution to our families. The physical struggle continued till I finished secondary school and moved to Kaduna.”

Having weathered the storm of life fending for himself till he finished secondary school, Owoyemi set out to find a purpose in life. At 18, he moved to Kaduna in search of his purpose.

“I wanted to go to school but there was no money. In Kaduna, I learned a trade. I am an artisan who was trained as a plumber. And I learnt it for four years. From there, I went to Kaduna Polytechnic where I did a part-time study in Civil Engineering. I will do plumbing in the morning and go to evening classes. I did that for three years and obtained a National Diploma in Civil Engineering.”

With his experience as a young man assisting at a construction site and his studies as a civil engineer, Owoyemi developed a passion for building. He became so experienced that he established his company at age 22 in 1978.

“We started contract jobs around 1979 when Alhaji Shehu Shagari came into power. We had a lot of people, a lot of friends who gave us their projects to supervise because of the trust they had in us. We weren’t too ambitious as a company. We concentrated on our strength and the work started growing.”

With over 45 years in the building and construction industry, Owoyemi’s experience is truly exceptional, having handled projects that included presidential, industrial and commercial structures scattered all over the country. Owoyemi never looked back as he eventually established his first company, Tajudeen Owoyemi and Co Ltd (TOCL), a full-fledged Engineering Company that engaged in Civil and Mechanical Engineering contracts. TOCL was to later enjoy massive patronage from elite national institutions such as Command and Staff College Jaji, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) and several other Federal Government Agencies and Parastatals.

“We did so many contracts. The biggest project we started then was in Staff College in Jaji, Kaduna. We did the Nigerian Army of School Infantry. We did the remodelling, reconstruction of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry head office in Jaji. It was around 1991 we did it and it was very successful,” he recalled.

Having established himself as a construction magnate operating from the north, Owoyemi decided to spread his tentacles to the west.

“I have never been to Lagos in my life until 1985 when General Babangida came to power. It was my first time in Lagos ever. And what brought me to Lagos? It was this contract job, building construction. The late Haladu, a General from Kano, invited me to Lagos. He said they wanted to build Police barracks for Nigerian Ports, they had their board meeting and they approved it and they wanted me to do it. So he sent for me from Kaduna. He insisted that I must come to Lagos immediately. That was how we got the first flight coming to Lagos. I now found out that it was another establishment where once you do your job satisfactorily you get paid. That was how I started coming to Lagos constantly before I and the family finally moved in 1993.”

With remarkable success with TOCL, Owoyemi, the quintessential entrepreneur became unstoppable as he then ventured into the establishment of many companies either as a sole promoter or in collaboration with others in property, banking, hospitality, solid mineral, maritime business and many others. He has in several ways proven the fact that success and credibility are not ordinarily bestowed, but rather earned through focus and unwavering dedication to the pursuit of one’s chosen cause or endeavour.

The establishment of Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited was a prelude to Owoyemi’s successful foray into the hospitality industry beginning with the establishment of the Avalon Hotel sited in his hometown in Offa despite the relatively low patronage in the town. The idea was to bring more people to the area and assist in hastening up the rate of urbanisation and commercialisation of Offa town and Kwara State by extension.

Avalon Intercontinental was founded in 2003 as a special vehicle to secure a competitive hospitality franchise that would enable it to build and operate world-class hotel facilities and this effort paid off with the birth of the first in the group, Protea Hotel, Victoria Island which has since been renamed Park Inn by Radisson, Victoria Island as a result of a strategic realignment by the group.

Internationally branded hotels currently owned and operating under the auspices of Avalon Intercontinental are Park Inn by Radisson, Victoria Island, Radisson Ikeja Hotel and Radisson Blu Ikeja Hotel. The ownership/management of these flagship hotels has catapulted Avalon Intercontinental Nigeria Limited and by extension its founder and Chairman into the elite league of hospitality industry big players.

People may have easily forgotten his name as a construction giant, but Owoyemi as a big player in the hospitality industry is still phenomenal. Why did he go into hospitality?

“It was the entrepreneurial spirit in me,” he said. “I decided to switch in 1995. I have been running up and down for contracts, and I looked at it and said, what can I do that will give me rest of mind? I mean something that will give me my daily bread that I would not be moving from one office to another. Contracts are good but are seasonal. I have a friend that normally comes from London, and stays in Eko Hotel and Suites. Eko Hotel was the only luxury hotel with 500 rooms around Victoria Island then and it was always fully booked. Then I said to my friend, even though we don’t have Eko Hotel, let’s have something around here that would be nicely built.

“This my friend said yes, we can. Within two days he got us a property opposite Eko Hotel, which is the first Protea in Nigeria. We started in 2001 and it was commissioned in October 2003. I don’t even have any experience with luxury hotels. I just wanted rooms that can be used. But another friend came and said there are some people who want to invest in Nigeria, that is Protea Hotel, which is well known in South Africa, and once you have that brand, people will stay there. So I listened to this friend and when we called Protea management from South Africa, they quickly came here and took the drawings and designed this property. This hotel had just 42 bedrooms. Did you know people checked out from Eko Hotel to this place? By the weekend people come in for business, they check out and we prepare again for the whole of the weekend. The place was properly designed as a boutique hotel.”

With his success story on the Island, Owoyemi moved to the Mainland, opposite Sheraton Hotel where he got another landed property.

“Sheraton was the only good hotel in the whole of Ikeja and Mainland. And I said, ‘How do we get property? That night somebody said there is a property that belongs to Jagal by Adebowale. So, after we finished this one in October 2003, we went there and saw the property in GRA. We paid USD1.5 million in 2004 to secure the property. After consulting with the government, construction started on the property. That was how we started and by the grace of God we are moving forward as a new project is currently unfolding in Abuja.”

The hotel business would later provide succour from the mining business in Offa. The town’s epileptic power supply crumbled the business.

Owoyemi’s feats are not defined solely by his business achievement; he has equally distinguished himself as a philanthropist, mixing humility with humanity. His generosity has earned him numerous honours and awards. For his outstanding performance in the industry, the Sun Newspaper awarded Owoyemi the Nigerian Hospitality Man of the Year on February 18, 2017.

He is much loved as an illustrious son of the soil. He was conferred with the honorary chieftaincy title of Bashorun of Offa by his Royal Majesty, Oba Mustapha Olawore Olanipekun Ariwajoye II, the late Olofa of Offa in 2005. He had had to relinquish this title for the higher one.

In a couple of days, Owoyemi will be conferred as Asiwaju of Offa by His Royal Highness, Oba Mufutau Muhammed Gbadamosi Okikiola Oloyede, Ajagungbade 1, Esuwoye II. This makes him the third person to hold this preeminent position after his immediate predecessor the late Chief Emmanuel Adesoye who held the position until January 2020 and the late Chief Josiah Sunday Olawoyin who was the very first to hold the position.

The conferment of this prestigious title, therefore, recognises Owoyemi’s exceptional commitment and contributions to the development of Offa land and Nigeria in general. “I thought it was a joke when the information got to me. I am not a politician but the young and the old and people from all walks of life have demonstrated their love for me. We have people that are more than qualified for this and I asked myself why me? It is God’s grace.”

Reeling out his plans for his people, Owoyemi said he aims to build on the existing legacy of assisting people through empowerment programmes. “We have a committee handling that. They are going to focus on whatever the needs of the people are, we have been doing that before but we want to improve on it now.”

Behind every successful man is his strong backbone. Owoyemi praised his wife of 41 years and the mother of his six successful children whom he met in Kaduna.

“My loving, peaceful and caring wife is Alhaja Rianat Bola Owoyemi. We both met in Kaduna but she is from Offa. We got married in 1980. I love my peace of mind and my wife gives me peace. So, it has been a wonderful journey.”

And the attraction?

“Well, I just saw a young lady doing her part-time training on Secretarial Studies and I also was doing part-time studies at Kaduna Poly. The union is blessed with six wonderful children. We have three of them in the country now, they are the ones that are interested and we have been working together. At least, to control the hospitality aspect because it is too big and it is not something I can do alone.”

From zero to a hero, Owoyemi success attests to his many years of perseverance and hard work. As he ends the conversation with this reporter, he gives a few tips on how to be on top of your game in any profession.

“Don’t be too ambitious. Concentrate on what your strength is and don’t follow the bandwagons. Don’t invest in a business that you don’t understand. Sometimes people want investors to come and invest in their businesses that have been in existence for decades. Why? If you manage it well you won’t call for people to come and invest in it. If you are sure of it you will want to do it successfully.

For me, I take life easy and take each day as it comes,” he concluded

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/10/10/tajudeen-owoyemi-his-journey-from-artisan-to-luxury-hotel-owner/

What’s New? | This Week

- Solar Shading
- Cantilevered Carport
- Ilé Ode 2 by NextHome (This design is already becoming a standard in my current project site)

gbadexy:
How much does it cost to plaster per sqm?
It would cost between N2000 to N2500 per sqm for graffitex application not to talk of stabilising the block first.
I thought plastering has a structural purpose to building.
There is a silicate paint and plaster that is even more cheaper than graffitex and that would work.

There’s drywall construction. You don’t have to plaster.
If you also consider most multi-floor projects, they hardly plaster walls. They mostly clad their walls.

The cheaper silicate paint you mentioned is looking more like something I’d be interested in.
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Focusmind:
This will be a game changer in the build industry. Bro, I am waiting for the outcome of this experiment. Anything to reduce the cost of cement will be welcomed.

I saw the gravitex paint used on a building at amuwo odofin area in Lagos and it was a beauty to behold.

I’ve seen screeding done directly on block wall. This was demonstrated to us by a construction company in Malaysia during Affordable Housing Projects Conference 2017

I’m confident Grafitex will work well on any surface.

In few days, I’ll carry out the experiment and feedback here.

For me, I’ll be happy to spend extra 700k on gravitex paint than plaster a duplex with 1.2m and still screed, tiles and or paint