BUILDING IN GHANA ''THE COST OF FIRST FLOOR SLAB FOR A 4-BEDROOM''

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BUILDING IN GHANA ''THE COST OF FIRST FLOOR SLAB FOR A 4-BEDROOM''


This video talks about the cost of first floor concrete slab (decking, reinforcement, concrete, and others) for a four-bedroom house in Ghana
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  1. All I can see is more weight on the foundation columns as heavy tons of iron rods, including a huge amount of concrete, have been used. What kind of structural engineer are you? Learn to build light. All you have done here is to cost the financier more money as solid slab is not cost-effective for a 4 bedroom house. All that plywoods and tons of bamboo props is just waste of money. Lack of construction creativity on your part as you just presented the same boring and archaic technology being used by almost ignorant builder in Ghana. It sucks to see poor people being made to suffer more, all in the name of iron rods and concrete. You don't need all that heavy weights which comes with heavy cost. If you are a good structural engineer, you advise your client to use precast lattice girder beam and block slab. The welded lattice girders are not difficult to manufacture as Ghana has plenty of qualified welders. The moulds are so easy to make in machines abundant in Ghana. All beams can be manufactured onsite cured and installed, filled with hollow blocks or polystrene. These make the building light, as less weight on the foundation column. Ghana is a poor economy, so as a structural engineer, you must study these technologies and recommend them to your clients. Nobody is interested in dropping a bomb on this 4 bed room house that it needs a solid slab to save part of it. Prove to your clients that you can save them 30-35 percent compared to solid archaic slab. That's what i want to see. Dedicated the time to teach people how they can manufacture the beams onsite. IT IS NOT HARD AT ALL AS IT IS NOT A ROCKET SCIENCE.

  2. This is clearly oversolutioning. The rebars (iron bars) are excessive. Next time, hire a beninese or a togolese for a better material selection and usage. What I see here is ridiculously expensive.