AL-MARDOOM 100 HOUSING UNITS PROJECT

Progress Report on the Construction of 100 housing units at AL-Mardoom

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Problems with Excavation and Delays


Excavations faces a lot of problems because of hard soil that contains a big percentage of rocks and due to the lack of labor. More problems with the excavator break down.


Excavation in hard soil

Mechanical Excavator

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Excavation Started

Last week excavation works started. Manual excavation, compressor and power excavator all were tried. The soil is very hard and big rocks are scattered in the site. The progress was very slow; only 4 buildings were excavated out of 26 proposed at this stage. Hopefuly, this sitiuation will change by the end of this week. Concreting of footings will start soon.