Category: 2021 KHS Girls Dormitory

After having taken much time on raising of the foundation wall, this week our builders are now focused on casting the floor slab.

For the last couple of weeks, there has been very serious work of casting of foundation beam. Indeed it has consumed some good time but it’s one of it’s kind. However, soon they will begin on floor casting.

Almost done with the refilling/compacting of mar-rum and now adding the aggregates.

It has been a week of plastering the foundation walls and beginning of refilling the foundation with marrum and aggregates.This foundation is an extra-high and is to consume good quantity of materials. This is because we are beginning on the lowest block where the plot is sloping at an angle.

Since the new Girls Dorm is sitting on a sloping piece of property, the block we are building now has a rather high foundation so as to make the whole building on one level. We are now working hard to try to finish the foundation walls to we can complete the filling material and the…

As we posted that after the week of column casting the speed will be now high, you can believe by seeing how the walls are being raised fast.We have got enough materials like bricks, cement, sand and aggregates in place to enable us work non-stop.

Last week was for steel bending and cutting, this week and today our building team with the help of internees are working tirelessly to make the columns stand.

Wow! it has been a week of steel cutting and bending and final leveling of the ground.And after this, the other work of column casting will be now very fast and easy.

As some junior builders are now on the raising KHS-Toilet walls, our senior builder Kidele is busy casting concrete in the column holes so that they prepare them for the actual column feet. Meanwhile Ernest is still work hard to get the remaining holes ready.

With our ground which is hard volcanic rock, it has taken quiet long for Ernest our jackhammer operator to reach this far.So far on the new girls’ dorm, he has finished some fifteen holes with in two weeks’ time and the remaining ones, he says also the same period.These holes are deep enough and we…