* I am Engr Chukwudubem Ebenezer-williams Ikennaya ( formally known as Chukwudubem Darlington ikenna). Many call me Engr Dubem or Dubem,

I am one of the engineers working
with BEAREN BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ( as a structural engineer and a supervisor in the Civil Engineering Department, i am also part of the structural team for special projects ( STSP), most times we are assigned to sites with special needs like complex or complicated delicate designs, difficult construction projects that requires professionalism, competence and meticulous construction attention)

We are currently in Chime Avenue, New Haven, Enugu, where we are assigned to build a business complex, plaza, or mercantile.

Howbeit, the construction started on December 2023 but my shedule was too tight to open the trend early enough.


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We have an old four flats of 3bedroom flat apartment situated in the designated site ( plots) where we supose to erect the plaza

Our Client’s construction file has the drawing/ design of the complex already. When i saw it, the design was for two storey building ( 3floors) while the existing building is one storey building ( 2floors)

Nevertheless, the architect designed it to be attached to the old building (superimposed design)

After some structural inspections and considerations, i suggested we collapse the old structure and erect the plaza as a new structure. The client bought the idea and gave his consent.

So we began....

The demolishing process 1


Disconnection power/electrical supply
Removal of roof sheets
Iron Burglary
Iron glass doors
Sanitary and kitchen wares
Windows etc

The demolition process 2

Disintegrating the structural members

Braking of Concrete beams

Collapsing of walls

Removal of rods from the rubbles

Etc

More picture details

It took a while before excavation commenced

The demolition cost was approximately 400k and the rods from the building, window protectors and rails, doors both iron and wooden, roof sheets and its wood, toilet and bath wares etc


Demolition duration was 4 -5days interval

The entire rubbles from the demolished building was moved to the coner outside the build area for foundation backfilling.

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The foundation length and width.

Length = 51m

Width = 21.9m

The excavator for the excavation just arrived, Excavating with a different machine 320 Model for efficiency

Strap Excavation

The foundation excavation started on the 10th Dec 23

Using excavation machine 320 precisely will get the job ready within 16 hours

Excavation: more update


The excavator actually completed the foundation excavation within 12 operational hours

5ft deep, steep land level technique applies, Strap foundation type.

Column base excavation...

Strap maintenance...

Blindinf off the soil...

Receiving more materials for concrete construction in a short while

We made a strap control concrete guide for soil blinding with board according to the measurement needed to avoid wastage

Erection of columns

Foundation walling

More details on foundation

< Bear with me, got so busy >

Moving on....


Foundation reinforcement, Backfilling, settling the soil, damp-contol measures, the casting.

Reinforcing some part

A single foundation construction of 1000m² is tedious though interesting if you understand the intricacies

Overview of some part of the foundation

Backfilling the foundation....

Backfilling with Excavator

My biggest challenge most times is time to update early enough due to workload ( lack of chance or in remote areas out of network signals)

Pls bear with us on that.

Continuing the update on the plaza construction....

1. Settling the backfilled soil with enough pressure water.

2. Compacting the saturated soil

3. DPM installation

4. DPC (full course)

5. Taking level & Boarding the foundation

6. Casting the Oversight concrete

Materials

* Water
* Thick Polyethylene membrane
* Planks and nails
* ¾ graded aggregate
* River sharp sand
* Supast Cement

While the oversight Concrete construction was going on, here under the mango tree we are fabricating the Shuttering for the 4m columns

About 80 columns to board

The oversight Concrete construction sofar on the other part of the foundation

Still on the oversight Concrete construction of about 985m² foundation b/w 6 to 9inches thickness.

The oversight concrete approximately consumed 625bags of cement