Fogman:


Thanks for the compliment. Please kindly post the radio picture of your car.

opalu:

We all learn every day. However for you †̥☺ say that since you have never done, heard or seen a pile foundation for 1 storey building means it can't be done or not being done means you don't want †̥☺ open up for new ideas.
I have done a comprehensive analysis fo r a particular site comparing the cost of piling †̥☺ that of soil replacement. I discovered that the cost of replacing the soil plus thick raft was higher than piles of 450mm dia which were required. The earth behaves funny and I've seen where replaced soil settled considerable †̥☺ make the building unfit for usage and marked for demolition. I still use the method if it is the best and most economical for that particular site!

Aventures: This tread is getting more interesting and louder, and we are learning. I wish the Mooderator can send this to front page for those that are not in property section and guest to equally learn as well. Back to SIR BANYE with due respect you have spoken well, but what you just describe is what we called cellular raft, i can take you to a couple of place where this is being done and i know you also have places known to you where this has equally being done as well. I bet you it does not really mean that pile is the best solution to foundation. ( though it is generally considered the ultimate). If you can excavate an take your foundation to the strongest soil strata that can provide you adequate soil bearing capacity that can support your foundation very well, that is the best. I give an example here, as a pupil engineer in some years back i was involve in a Catholic church cathedral at Chi Avenue, just beside oke AFA canal, the structures was design by Engr. Jolomi Ometan, as massive as this structures is we did not use pile foundation at all, rather we excavated the entire site area up to about 4m deep at this point we have come across a white silty sand. The engineer insisted that we should get a point and excavate further to ensure the consistency of the sandy and stable layer we met at 4m. After establishing this continuity. we started the foundation bases, to be breif, we have about 4 major bases, and 16 others, at least each of this major bases consumes up to 300 bags of cement, not to talk of others, we have three tiers of beam of about 900 mm tieing all the columns together. what about the de-watering challenge we pump 24 hrs of 6 days in a week.
Why this long story is because i agree with your point and i have 2 points to equally make. 1. The ambiguity of this process is high and cumbersome (like the one i just describe we spent 10 months with 2 stand by excavator and several trucks to cart away the excavated soil), also in some area it may not be practicable, due to logistic, availability of space and others while piling may not really be hindered by some tight logistic. 2. i can assure you this atimes in terms of cost it could be at per or even costlier than piling (many professionals use this pilling of a thing to cheat clients as they made you to believe a vague no of piles and tripple the actual depth all these are usually planned at design stage, but only to execute the actual thing).
The bottom line is let this man get a professional that will give him a sound best of judgement and give verdict base on his experience and put his professional career online for it by certifying the job, that is why i said he should check the status of any professional is going to engage in oreer to ensure that is a person that can be held liable.

IGBO-SON:
Can any civil engineers in the house tell us the benefits of using the suspension model as against building a plain old bridge (like third mainland and others); and i thought suspension bridges are meant to have two of those suspension towers ......don't know the technical implications, but it just looks more balanced and pleasing to the eye.

mhoo: I wanna believe you are referring to another 'insight' and not insight communications 'cause I contacted their HRM last week and she made it clear that no more recruitment this year... she even went further to state that they will be closing business for the year on 15th dec...

All the same, check well to be sure you are not being scammed o 'cause we have so many crazy opportunists around these days.

All the best!!!

Evansedos: giving to the sick or orphan is not bad; does the the sick or orphan have the anointing to bless u.

emusmith:

Judas Is Carriot...the thief, u know, said something alike...He said, y are we waisting dis expensive perfume on Jesus, y don't we sell it and give to poor, orphans...JESUS‘ REPLY WAS, THE POOR YOU HAVE ALWAYS, SATISFY MY NEEDS FIRST. SHIILOH VOW THINGS on my mind... Whistling...