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| Civil Engineer | Building & Construction Geek |

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Joined June 2012
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@cenas_j
Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
"Nmeona nianzie hapa niki nunua nunua materials za kujenga nyumba ya mawe"
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
If remove your roof (the most expensive therein) costing around 1.5 M. Whatever is remaining can’t be 2M - both in heaven and on earth.
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Imbusy
11 months
It has eaten me KES 3.8M so far
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Cenas Ojung'a
4 months
I'm just learning that this Kuria Kimani guy is a PhD student at the University of Nairobi pursuing International Business Management. Bwana his supervisor must make sure he graduates after 25 years. Such a shame to academia.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
Exquisite design, exquisitely built. 📸 By Ruby Group.
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Cenas Ojung'a
8 months
This is now jokes taken too far. Bwana which kind of business is this?
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
Mkue serious, 100k in a space! What a time to be alive!
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
What is the reading from the vernier caliper?
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Cenas Ojung'a
2 years
As I hand over the project today, all I can say is VENI. VIDI. VICI. I came, I saw, I conquered. Retweet as my next client is right here.
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Cenas Ojung'a
7 months
I wish those who gave our excellency that helmet could have understood that the color code belongs to fire fighters.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
One thing that saddens me is when a client takes their time and resources and channels it to construct such a grand house and then DEATH knocks at their door and they've to leave all that behind without even setting foot in them. Rest well Mr. Fred. This is sad!
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
Look at that. 👌 📸 By @EurodoorK
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
A picture of a corner window taking its fair share of the facade. Good morning folks.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Friendly reminder to builders that they should resist the temptation to use barbed wire in the place of hoop iron regardless of the prevailing financial situations.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Believe it or not, ladies and gentleman, this is Dandora Stadium. Just give the contractor his likes, cause this is proper workmanship oozing class! 👏
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
As the curtain closes on 2023, builders and developers, could you summarize your year with one photo of your random project. Me:
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 years
Flat roof versus pitched roof. Here’s what you need to know in addressing your dilemma. For today,I’ll base my insights on two rivaling issues. Upfront cost and life span. Thread:
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
As an Architect, Civil Engineer, Quantity Surveyor, Construction Manager, Building Technologist et al builders reply with a pic of your first ever construction project you did and handed over successfully stating the month and year you handed it over. I start. Feb 2017.
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
These images courtesy of @Emma999Too are quite unsettling to see. There is an impending legal battle here simply because someone decided to ignore the 5-4-3-2-1 Excavation rule. Before you ask me what that means. Here I go, when you are excavating anywhere 5 meters below the
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
As a matter of urgency, I was to do a thread on the Land Laws (Amendment) Bill 2023 which is currently in Parliament and I need to explain that it is not part of the Finance Bill 2024. I have just picked some few worrying amendments that I think need your attention - for all
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 years
Hio ndio kazi mi hufanya. Kindly retweet my client can be on your TL.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Corner windows will be the end of me. What a beast!
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
Just discovered some hidden gem in Mwalimu Kisaju Park. This is the real affordable housing scheme with units going between 3M and 4M for 2 and 3 bedroom respectively.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
You should start with this one. 1. No drainage 2. No shoulders on the carriageway 3. Total disregard on grades and curves. Stop celebrating mediocrity!
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@Machakos_Gov
County Government of Machakos
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Her Excellency, Governor @Wavinya_Ndeti puts rogue contractors on notice as she inspects ongoing projects in Machakos County.
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
If you see this photo of Naivas, Kakamega branch going round, kindly acknowldge the good workmanship of my brothers @MtuPombe and Eng @xysist Aaah, you guys and the entire team delivered this one. 👏
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
#TBT Part of my history deeply engraved in my heart is that there was a job opening at Tatu City (when it was just beginning around 2016) that only wanted manual laborers. I turned up for it despite being a recent engineering graduate. I worked for like 3 days in cognito, then on
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Two very quick truths this Sunday. Thing 1:. Concrete and reinforcements are competitive in nature since they bear opposing forces namely, compressive (from concrete) and tensile (from reinforcements). The moment you stuff the space concrete is supposed to occupy with your Pipes,
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
In an era where developers and designers alike have a taste for economy of floor space, I think the conversation around sliding doors is inescapable - especially in minimalist interiors. I mean look at that!
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Cenas Ojung'a
7 months
😂😂 We joke too much.
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 years
As a practitioner in the building and construction department, I always advise my clients to avoid Royal mabati at all costs when they need to do their roofing.
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Cenas Ojung'a
21 days
Seriously, I'm losing trust in some steel bar manufacturers. Vernier caliper will be my next go-to gadget for confirmation of bar sizes bwana.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Let me repeat this for the umpteenth time because no school will ever teach you this. If you're purposing to buy land with an intent to develop it later on, visit that site during rainy seasons. BENCHMARK. This is a kind reminder because we do it for the sake of Sanity and Future
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
We will one day reach this level of workmanship. One day.
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Cenas Ojung'a
8 months
Eiiish this is some cleeeean job! 🙌🏾
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
Watu wako mjengo hawaitishangi mpesa. Si huandika kwa kitabu kwa madhe wa kibandasky tunalipa baadaye. Hii yako haiwesmake. 😊
@lindahoguttu
Lindah Oguttu aka Mtu ya mjengo
10 months
Oya, tumeni Mpesa ya lunch. Tuko mjengo😊
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Good morning folks. Is the caliper giving a reading of a D12, D14 or a D16?
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Cenas Ojung'a
8 months
These are very disturbing images as shared by @Emma999Too I mean let's just say there is a serious lapse in our systems. In serious countries where spatial planning regulations are followed to the latter, you're required to submit a shadow diagram alongside your house plans 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
Honestly Nairobians don't deserve this whether it's Sakaja or Igathe you guys vouched for. It's not warranted at all.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
363/365 days, let me post some corner windows before time runs out. 🙌
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Cenas Ojung'a
7 months
Let's learn something today. So this is a manhole cover/top and there are certain inscriptions on it that need description as follows: 1. The KS 1555-6: The KS 1555 is the normative reference from KEBS classifying these manholes for pedestrians only (vehicle exceptions exist) 1
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Cenas Ojung'a
4 months
As a builder, immediately this is done, what runs through your mind. I want to note something. 📷 Courtesy of Wachira G.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
S.I.M.P.L.I.C.I.T.Y 👌
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
Happy Sunday y'all. 📸 Beldina Kirito
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Baaaas! 👏
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
Very simple but elegant architecture in my books.
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Someone just sent me this photo to justify the essence of having a raised foundation - especially during these flooding times due to El Nino. But I will say this, even as it may bar water from the house, it is pointless if you can't back it up with an elaborate drainage system.
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
Someone around Ongata Rongai kindly confirm whether things are okay cause I'm getting some disturbing news from that end.
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Can I surprise you people? There are no columns in that boundary wall, imagine, just imagine! 📸 C. Nyakundi.
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Cenas Ojung'a
6 months
There is something unique about these two projects under my wings that I may wish to bring to your attention. So they belong to different owners. On the right, a gentleman from Western, on the left a gentleman from Eastern. These guys grew up in the same hood (were best of
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
The background says it all.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 month
Seemingly, rising dampness is becoming a thorn in most home owners' flesh. Chiefly because some buikder advise against the use of dpc (while insisting that a dpm is fits the bills).
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
The landscaping team that worked on this one deserve a standing ovation. Do they?
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Okay, away with the road erosion. You can see how that AC layer is very thin. I wonder whether these roads especially in the remote parts of this country are adequately supervised. I don't know.
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
I will do a comprehensive thread on the amended land laws by tomorrow 8:00 A.M EAT. Keep it here.
@Osama_otero
Sir-Rap-A-Lot
3 months
On the issue of Finance bill 2024. Can someone educate us on the following: 1. robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) Society Bill 2023 2. ⁠THE LAND LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, NO. 2 OF 2023 3. ⁠ The Assembly and Demonstration Bill of 2024. #Rejectfinancebill2024
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
Hii nyumba ya 1.3 Mirrions na ni 3 bedroom ni kama inaleta tumbo joto. What do you guys think?
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Cenas Ojung'a
8 months
The roofing sheets here are called stone-coated roofing sheets and not decra as famously known in these streets. Decra is just the name of the company that first introduced these roofing sheets to consumers. Good morning
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
A question that I’ve found hard to answer is whether rain water harvested from roof fitted with decra sheets is safe for drinking. Who has an answer?
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
My solemn advice to builders: advise your clients to always consider pointing (especially for load-bearing walls) when the mortar is still fresh. Why? To avoid mismatch of setting times that would otherwise lead to portions of the structure exhibiting variations in strengths.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Now 2 very quick things this mid-morning. 1. Because of the unprecedented rains, water ingression (water making its way into buildings) is or will be very common by the passing of time. The time and point you can solve this is usually at substructure level by supplementing DPM 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Still on my TMT bar posits, I'll state that KEBS fronted specifications for steel in construction industry while adopting ribbed bars through normative referencing (KS 02-18). That said, we need to explain these markings on the bars for the sake of sanity and future reference. 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Bitumen coating is rare yet a necessary in substructure works predominantly because it enhance durability among many other functionalities we'll exploit here. First, marshy areas pose serious challenges to footings and other substructure components due to constant ingression 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
8 months
Without doubt, such modest dwellings can be considered affordable houses.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
No slander on corner windows is tolerated on my TL 😂. @KowinoMoses Thanks for sending this gem my way. Let’s do a thread of such.
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Cenas Ojung'a
23 days
To materials suppliers, when I say I need decorative and non-porous foundation stones, this is what I mean.
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Plumbing accessories revolutionized. I highly recommend but where can we find it though? Someone recommend.
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
The year is 1978 at Makerere University. They have denied yours trully an entry to the graduation pavillion citing 'missing graduation cap'. Since 'necessity is the mother of invention' I took my snap back, wore it back facing front and there I was, seated among fellow comrades.
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
Gabion walls are fast becoming a fencing and a retaining wall alternative around the globe. I will be glad to do a project or two using them.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Good people, let me instill some fear in you this morning. Now, be very worried when you see such vertical cracks emanating either from ground-up or up-ground. Worse off is when you see them while construction is ongoing or within a year after completion. Let's diagnose this 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
2 months
In Eldoret town, there is Moi University, in Moi University, there is a School of Arts, in School of Arts, I bet there is a Department of Fine Arts, in Department of Fine Arts, I bet there is a student who would have been given this job and done it well. Anyway, we love jokes.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
All I can say is good night.
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Cenas Ojung'a
5 months
Still a proper, decent and flashy living room in my books.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Just in case you didn’t know, bamboo poles are fast replacing our dear eucalyptus round poles as shoring props. These poles are strong, easily resistant to adverse weather conditions and pest attack. They’re also easy to install and adjust. Their downside is that they’re rare.
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
You've ever gone up stairs from ground floor and by the time you reach the first landing you're already fatigued! You think you're unfit? No you're not!. It is us designers who overlook critical aspects that facilitate flight. Things like dimensions of risers, slope of flight
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Cenas Ojung'a
4 months
Brown + Grey just a perfect blend.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
One minute...... Next minute. This is disheartening. 😔
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Cenas Ojung'a
20 days
The ability to shape these stones perfectly is a dying craft since a good number of them are done by old men.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
Just in case you don't know, it's the work of a grinder in the right hands of a skilled mason to achieve such smooth finishes on the blocks.
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Cenas Ojung'a
2 months
Builders be on the look out for such.
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9 months
"Hii si mlango tu, ni malango," one of my Fundis alleged. @EurodoorK I hope you make like these ones.
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Cenas Ojung'a
7 months
Minimalist spacing will show us proper utilization of spaces. Now loook at this!
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
Coming home to this...
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
If cool, calm and collected was a room.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
From an insulation perspective, bush stone cladding has higher thermal mass - the stones' readiness to absorb, store and release heat. That means they absorb a lot of heat during the day (cooling the house) and release the stored heat at night (to warm an otherwise cold house).
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6 months
A special day to introduce corner doors. Happy Eid Mubarak.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
From what flooding has done to our roads infrastructure, moving forward, I think it will be important to include hydrologists and geologists as part of roads and highway design team. Very critical.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
"Usijali engineer hizo honey combs tutanyorosha na plaster ikue sawasawa". Good morning my fellow masons 😂
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
I understand that a roof should ideally be one of the first noticeable elements in a structure. But is shouldn't be overdone. It shouldn't be 'screaming' for heaven sake. Architects and roofing experts don't crucify me.
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Cenas Ojung'a
3 months
📢 Mjengo Fraternity Comment with your username and follow your peers. Let's go.
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1 year
#bathroomchallenge there is something it's lacking.
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Cenas Ojung'a
7 months
Simplicity serving goals.
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1 year
Senior @CPMMwangi is just briefing me of a building in Jogoo area of Muranga that has decided enough is enough and has resorted to differentially settle. Sad scenes indeed.
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9 months
In another episode of our roofing designs. All I can say is that we've officially defeated the eyes of the Almighty God.
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Cenas Ojung'a
11 months
Btw uPVC gutters also enhance a roofline's aesthetic appeal. Look at this one now.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
1/5 Due to public demand, let's ventilate on this honey combing issue for once. What is a honeycomb and honeycombing as a process in a construction perspective? A honeycomb is a series of hollow and rough spacings formed in concrete masses after concreting of structural elements.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 month
D.O.O.R
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5 months
I bet now those who have done perimeter walls or retaining walls will understand the true value and essence of weep holes. Quite underrated but important things those ones.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
When you've got an architect with a rare passion for civil works.
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
Courtesy of wallmaster T6. Splendid!
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Cenas Ojung'a
1 year
It's a weekend yes but let's learn something TMT Ribbed Bars: Thermo-mechanically Treated (TMT) ribbed bars are simply high-strength reinforcement bars featuring tough outer cores with projections around the. But what are these projections and how are they important? 1/
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Cenas Ojung'a
10 months
Just in case you didn’t know, this is a butterfly kind of a roof.
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Cenas Ojung'a
9 months
We joke too much in this country. 😠
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