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Hello Engrs, Builders, Architects and everyone here! You're welcome to this page where we will follow this journey of building a plaza in Kano state.

This house will be demolished and the plaza will be built on the land. The land size is about 50 by 50ft

Here is how it will look (God willing) upon completion. It will have 15 single shops, 2 double shops, 3 offices (with a toilet each), Managers office and, 4 public toilets on each floor. Don't forget to follow closely on this Exciting journey!

We started removing the roof, doors, windows, wires. Alot of these items will be useful in the new building. We had to hire a store near by to keep them safely.

Our next challenge was where to dispose rubbles which has started piling up. I went enquire about hiring a dump truck to pack the rubbles to a nearby open space. They said they will charge me 10k per trip. And the whole thing will require nothing less than 80 trip. Did the math and knew it was not feasible

Luckily it was rainy season and the people in the areas needed rubbles to fill their streets and houses! People also came that needed rubbles in large quantities to backfill their sites😁

You can see the amount of rubbles and we're just half way

Making some progress...

The are is now mostly clear, we were able to recover some good quality rods and we keep them in a secure location close by. I also instructed the carpenter to build a security man house

Foundation digging will start soon. I will be doing a slightly different kind of foundation. It will be a pad foundation with plinth beams connecting the columns. No need for foundation blocks. This will save cost and make a stronger foundation 💪🏾

We started making drainage cover slabs. We casted by the road side and placed. Do you know why we placed stones under the reinforcement?

We've started excavation. This is the layout of the footings. I designed the foundation footings to be 1.2m deep. However due to the existing dpc level of the old building, we had to dig as deep as 1.7m in some places to maintain the right level

Here's the foundation layout. We have 16 pad footings

We're having serious space constraints in the site and the sand is piling up. I'll have to relocate the remaining reinforcement bars to a different location.

Iron works cannot also be done on site. So I gave the iron bender the bar bending schedules to enable him do the iron works in a different location. When the excavation is done, he will just fix the reinforcements in the right places. Simple!

We had a problem on site. It rained heavily that day and most of the mud went back in to the trenches. It has caused a big delay for us. Only thankful that we have at least done our blinding. We can still know the depth level. This is additional and unforeseen costs and delays for us😔.

We've finally cleared the foundation and transported the prepared iron rods to the site.

Iron rods transportation in progress. Each set of bars was labeled to know the right placement location

Each foundation column has 6Y12 TMT bars. With Y16 for the pad footings. The depth of concreting of the pads range from 400mm to 700mm. Some footings are about 1.4by1.4m up to 2by2.3m dimensions. It will require about 25cubic meters of concrete to cast the footings

I've not been able to post lately cause I've been so busy.

After concreting the footings, we casted the columns to the natural ground level. We excavated only the top soil on site. We then connected the columns with a plinth beam. You can see in the picture below.

This ensures that the foundation is rigid and strong. It also saves money and materials than the the conventional block wall foundations.

You can then build the number of block courses to raise your foundation level as required. On this site we are only adding 1 course of blocks.

Foundation block work complete. Backfilling and ramming will be next

Backfilling was done and DPC was casted

Column reinforcement fixed. Ground floor will also have 6y12 bars and 8mm stirrups spaced at 9 inches. Column Kickers were also casted

Well done. Thumb Up!

Good job

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ArcToyin:
Well done. Thumb Up!

Thanks senior man🙌

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