The RealMasika

Building Contractor | Tech innovator | Father, Husband, Child of God | Knows a thing or two about
Building construction management & Material supply in Ug 🇺🇬

[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

Can you build a habitable residential house on a 5million UGX budget?

We are putting it to a test in this
#buildfor5million -05 challenge

And this is my attempt at it!

👉 Now raising brickwork for the exterior and room partition walls! #constructionuganda

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[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

Mukama mukulu, yesterday we finally agreed on terms and conditions with this client to take on this dare, where we will attempt to deliver a habitable version of this project on a 5m budget.

Shall we or
Shall we not?

@LordSiiyaa
Come let's find out over the next few weeks!

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

"The faster you act, the more opportunities appear.
Urgency compounds."

[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

All so familiar a story!

[Big_Gift @GTgiftie]

Selling cement is such a humbling business.

My father owns a cement shop, and one of his regular prayer points was:
“God abeg, send customers. Make this thing no spoil for my hand.” 😂

One day, a distributor sent 250 bags of cement to him.
As usual, it was a "take now, pay after selling" arrangement.

But this batch stayed in the shop for too long.

He managed to sell about 100 bags, but the remaining 150 just sat there like nobody wanted cement again.

Then one day, he opened the shop and discovered the cement had started caking, even though it wasn’t placed directly on the ground.
He was heartbroken.

But instead of letting it waste, he bought truckloads of sand and hired workers to mold blocks with everything left.

In fact, the entire shop was cleared just to avoid loss.

Later, the distributor called for payment, and my dad had to withdraw money from his other business to settle the debt.

After that experience, he said he was done selling cement.
He was just waiting for his shop rent to expire so he could shut everything down.

Then something unexpected happened.

During that same period, one of his old friends came to our house, saw the blocks outside, and asked if my dad wanted to sell them.

My dad said yes and just like that, he sold everything.

Then the man asked if there was still cement in the shop.

My father instantly said a quick: *“Yes” 😂😂😂

That “yes” was very fast for someone who had locked his shop for over two weeks.

To my surprise, that night my dad didn’t let the cement distributor rest.
He kept calling and shouting on the phone, begging him to make sure the truck arrived at his shop the next morning 😂😂

Anybody who says running a business is easy is lying.

Have you ever abandoned a business in a slow season, and later resumed it when opportunity showed up?

[FOS Engineering Solutions @FosSolutions]

Curing Pile Caps

Pile foundations are typically used when

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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[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Urgency is what makes your brain believe that your dreams are possible to achieve. Without it, your mind will keep pushing the work to a tomorrow that will never come.

[ConstructionPM🪖 ✨ @HabeebOmosidi]

Respect your professional colleagues at all times. Out of professional courtesy, avoid outrightly criticizing their work, whether in their presence or absence. The opportunities, experience, and knowledge you each have are not the same. Even the way you think cannot be the same.

There are ways to comment on a colleague’s work without making others feel like the person knows nothing about what he has done.

And lastly, you do not know how much he was paid for the work. 😂

[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

@lulanzeashirafu Incredible!

[Deborah Tusingwire @DeborahTusingw4]

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We support projects with geotechnical investigations that help reduce uncertainty before construction begins.
[phone]
#geotechnicalengineer #construction #soiltests

[Mr. Architect @rogers_ampaire]

Just a mixed-use development!

[ConstructionPM🪖 ✨ @HabeebOmosidi]

They don’t teach some things, they come with experience.

[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

@Thecapitalevang Oweede!

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

A wise mentor once told me: “Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don’t want their life, don’t play their game.”

[Mind and Glory 🎖 @mindandglory]

Study the man who smiles through pressure, moves without announcement, and never explains his exit.

[ConstructionPM🪖 ✨ @HabeebOmosidi]

A beautiful external wall fencing design… >>>

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[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

@KamogaMunawa If she wants she can fall as long as the eggs are safe. Abeele mugezi yenyweeze

[#MjengoBora @KowinoMoses]

Without such a wide concrete gutter, your hidden roof will give you sleepless nights.

Learn or perish.

[ConstructionPM🪖 ✨ @HabeebOmosidi]

One of my goals is to create a social media community of construction professionals where we can share knowledge, discuss challenges in the construction industry, and network for opportunities beyond just Twitter.

This would Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

How realistic is this? 😅

[Joshua Pi'Rwot @pirwot]

Your poverty story is only interesting if you're rich while telling it.

[The RealMasika @emarksmen1]

They don't make them this good anymore

[Ifeoma C. N @__iffff]

This is actually a clear guide to detailed plans.

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

This 2km road stretch was constructed by President Gen Amin's government in 1970s between Moyo and Laropi Port in West Nile as a prototype of the kind of road network he envisaged for Uganda.

It has no single crack, pot hole or a sign of getting any. Why doesn't Government of the Republic of Uganda especially ministry of works and Transport study under the microscope the ingredients of this road and use it as a benchmark for all roads in Uganda egos aside.