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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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
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.
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.
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
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