Projects

Stone masonry foundations

Turkana County

An engineer in an orange vest checking a stone foundation course with a tape measure, a colleague in a red hard hat behind.

Place: Turkana County
Service: Homes and infrastructure; structural design
Work: Setting out, stone masonry foundations, plinth walls, ground slab
Client: Not named on this site

The job

Foundations for a new building on open, stony ground below the hills, built from stone dressed on site.

A stone foundation under construction below a rocky hill; an engineer in an orange vest measures the course while a colleague in a red hard hat works behind.

Four people standing on a building site by piles of gravel and stone, acacia trees behind.

What we did

Set out the building with tape and string line, laid the foundation courses in stone and cement mortar, and checked each course for line and level.

On site

Stone was stacked by the trenches and laid course by course, with an engineer checking dimensions as the walls rose.

Engineers with clipboards inspecting a concrete-lined canal at Napak, a pickup parked behind.

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Drilling rig. Photo: Kamal Osama, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. Not an Almelo site.

A stone foundation under construction below a rocky hill; an engineer in an orange vest measures the course while a colleague in a red hard hat works behind.