Anyone who has had experience in this, is there any cost & time benefit of constructing using prefabricated panels instead of the regular route of stone+cement ?
( Foundation using NHC mlolongos’ EPS technology )
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What you could have spent on stones, will spend on cement
The cost of Eps panels na the cost of machine cut stones
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What about a hybrid solution, precast for the foundation with the kawaida stones walls ?
You will save time only, and lose on money and value
The selling point of eps is time saving otherwise the cost is the same.
What if used for the foundation only ? Kawaida foundations are also not cheap
when koto housing came into the market that was the best time to build with them 2 bedrom was going for 1.2 and was complete in 21 days but walipopata contract ya kujengea makarao nyumba wakaringa wakahike prices sai if you choose EPS you will only save time
This technology assumes shags modos won’t bang 6-inch nails into the wall for hanging curtains and graduation photos. Makosa sana!
Honestly, i have never seen a stone and motar house erected on an eps foundation… i am sure it can be done but the savings will be negligible.
construction in the middle of nowhere
kwani ni utawala?
Ladies and gentlemen, you can also build your house very nicely with earth (mud or mud bricks, unfired). We have been doing it for millennia in Africa from Zulu land to Timbuktu, let no one brain-wash you that only quarry stones and cement can build.
Do you have a pictorial evidence of any end product coming out of them?
I used EPS to make the ceiling of my house and what I found out was that the boards use up a lot of cement. At the end of the day, building using machine cut stones and EPS will cost roughly the same. The EPS are however good for making the ceiling slab as they reduce the amount of labour.
Picha ndio hizi
EPS is those campus theories of cutting down construction costs. We did an evaluation for a large scale housing development and where’s there are time savings for using EPS, overall there are many other costs that go into the total cost of a house. As a rule, civil works cost (cement, sand, EPS panels etc) a third whilst finishings and fittings cost the other two thirds. To make matters worse, to make fittings to line up on EPS walls is a problem.
So in summary, precast around the world only works with large scale government sponsored housing and industrial type constructions. For normal housing, it’s not taken off anywhere meaningfully globally
EPS is equal or slighly costlier than using normal stone method
So it implies we better stick to what we already know how to do best (build with normal stone)
Yes because most projects on the ground lead you to spending more using EPS panels plus the biggest weakness of EPS is the noise factor. For a normal residential house, imagine kunyanduana na bibi na next door wanaskiza yote