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13 Jul 2023
What Determines How Hollow Pots are Arranged on Site?
Captured in the footage is an active site in Kiambu🇰🇪 code named Project Red Ochre
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How to Lap Steel Rebar for Reinforced Concrete Beams via Cranking
Captured in the footage is an active site in Mwihoko🇰🇪
We are FOS Engineering Solutions.
#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #RebarCranking
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How to Correctly Manage Staircase Starter Bars on Site
Captured in the footage is an active site in Mwihoko🇰🇪
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #StarterBars #staircase
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Corner Detail for Reinforced Concrete Underground Water Tank, Lift Shafts, Retaining Walls etc
Captured in the footage is an active job site in Diani🇰🇪 code named Project Henna Palace
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#WaterTank #UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS
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Concreting a Test Pile - What a Concreted Pile Looks Like
1. Surface soil is too weak to support the structure.
2. Loads are very high, so need to be transfer to the hard strata.
3. The site has poor drainage or chances of waterlogging is too high
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4. There is need to resist uplift or lateral forces as in bridges.
Captured in the footage is an active job site in Zimmerman🇰🇪
#PileFoundations #UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #PileRig #Piling
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How Concreted Column Pad Footings And Strip Footings Look Like
Captured in the footage is an active job site in Juja Farm🇰🇪
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #PadFootings #Foundations #AskFOS
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Schmidt Hammer Test - Surface Preparation and Testing
Captured in the footage is an active structural retrofit site in Kisumu🇰🇪
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#NDT #SchmidtHammer #ReboundHammer #RetrofitSite
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Structural Engineering Inspection of Sample Timber Truss on Site. We checked for:
1. Type of timber
2. Preservative treatment of timber
3. Dimensions of timber
4. Nailing detail.
5. Joint splicing detail
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Captured in the footage is an active site in Machakos🇰🇪 code named Project Black Swan
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #RoofTruss
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Progress images for the roofing works of our high end residential maisonette. Works done thus far:
•Setting out for walling of attic floor✅️
•Ring beam✅️
•Setting out for trusses and rafters✅️
•Erection of trusses and rafters✅️
•Bolting of wall plates✅️
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•Fixing of purlins ✅️
•Fixing of battens ✅️
•Concreting of rafter beams (ongoing)
Captured in the images is an active site in Bustani🇰🇪
#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #Bustani #Roofing
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How to Correctly do Steel Fixing for a Bevel Detail for Water Retaining Structures and its Importance
Captured in the footage is an active site in Diani🇰🇪 code named Project Henna Palace
#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #Wateeproofing #BevelDetail
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Correct Steel Fixing for Column Links
Captured in the footage is an active site in Diani🇰🇪 code named Project Henna Palace
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #Links #Columns
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Refractory Bricks for Fireplaces
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #RefractoryBricks
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Wrong Installation of Waterbar in a Water Tank❌️
Captured in the footage is an active job site in Bustani🇰🇪
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #Waterbar
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Coverage for Damp Proof Membrane (DPM) for Ground Floor Slabs
Captured in the footage is an active site in Diani🇰🇪 code named 'Peoject Henna Palace'
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#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #DampProofMembrane #Waterproofing
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Coverage for Damp Proof Membrane (DPM) for Ground Floor Slabs
Captured in the footage is an active site in Diani🇰🇪 code named 'Peoject Henna Palace'
We are FOS Engineering Solutions
#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #DampProofMembrane #Waterproofing
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Performing Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV) Test during a Structural Audit exercise of an existing building. The aim is to establish the quality of concrete mix of structural elements on site.
Captured in the footage is an active structural retrofit site in Kisumu🇰🇪 .
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The aim is to establish:
1. The homogeneity of the concrete
2. The presence of cracks, voids and other imperfections
3. Changes in the structure of the concrete which may occur with time
4. The quality of the concrete in relation to standard requirements
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5. The quality of one element of concrete in relation to another
6. The values of dynamic elastic modulus of the concrete
#UsidanganyweNaFundi #AskFOS #UltrasonicPulseVelocity #Ferroscan #NDT
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