Day: 16 August 2026

A client once handed me a Bill of Quantities he had prepared himself, proud of how thoroughly he had priced every bag of cement, every length of iron rod, every

SPAR Site Planning, Analysis and Report is one of the first exercises where a planning student stops describing a neighbourhood and starts designing one. It’s also where most students discover

Take a plot of 15 metres by 30 metres. Before you draw a single wall, roughly 100–150 square metres of that plot is already unavailable to you swallowed by setbacks

The wall between two semi-detached units gets almost no attention in most house plan content, and that’s exactly the wall most disputes, most sound complaints, and most resale headaches trace

Long before “courtyard house” became a design trend on Pinterest, it was simply how a large household in much of West Africa organized itself. The Yoruba agbo-ile and the Hausa

A 2 bedroom contemporary bungalow and a 6 bedroom contemporary duplex are not the same design problem scaled up. The open-plan living area that feels generous in a 2 bedroom

Your roof is on. The blockwork is up, the windows are fitted, and for the first time the building actually looks like a house instead of a construction site. This