From the site,
week by week.

Formwork up for the top deck.

The two-storey block is now closed in to the top of its first-floor walls, and the carpenters have moved up on top of it. Timber decking and a forest of bamboo props cover the whole footprint, ready for the slab that will sit above the first floor. Window and door openings are formed on both levels, so the elevations are starting to read from the road.

Next door, the single-storey block stands at full ground-floor height with every opening formed. Sand, granite, and blocks are staged across the yard for the pours and courses still to come.

Pour day for the next slab.

A second set of footage from week 19, and it is all about one thing: casting a first-floor slab. Reinforcement mesh was laid over the timber decking, with the blue electrical conduits and green service pipes threaded through it before any concrete went down.

On pour day the whole crew was on the deck at once - mixing, carrying, spreading, and levelling by hand until the slab was flat. Cast in one go, so it cures as one piece.

Three weeks, two storeys.

Three weeks in one entry, and the site has changed shape. The two-storey block now has its first-floor walls up, with formwork and bamboo scaffolding wrapped around the front elevation. From above, the upper rooms are laid out as clearly as the ground floor was back in week 9.

The single-storey block alongside is at full ground-floor height with its openings formed. Deliveries kept pace: granite, sand, and fresh block stacks fill the compound between the two buildings.

Going up a floor.

The first-floor slab has cured and the blocklayers are on top of it. Upper-floor walls went up fast across the two-storey block, with bamboo scaffolding tied along the front for the courses above head height. Window openings on the upper level are already formed.

The ground-floor block beside it is at full wall height. The top-down shot shows how much of the plot is now built on: the yard between the buildings is down to sand heaps, block stacks, and timber.

The first upper floor is cast.

The formwork from the last fortnight has done its job. The first-floor slab is down on the two-storey block, a clean concrete deck with the column starter bars standing out of it, and the first courses of upper-floor blockwork are already going on at the back.

Across the yard the single-storey block has reached lintel level. Block stacks and granite heaps are being replenished for the floor above.

Decking for the first upper floor.

With the ground-floor walls at full height, the carpenters took over. Timber decking now spans the two-storey block, held up on rows of bamboo props, ready to take the reinforcement and concrete for the first-floor slab. The lintels over the door and window openings were cast first so the walls can carry the load.

A wet fortnight on site, and the laterite road in shows it. The single-storey block alongside is at the same stage, walls up and openings formed.

Ground-floor walls at full height.

One week on from the first courses, the ground-floor walls stand at full height across all three homes. Every door and window opening is formed, the timber for the lintel formwork is on site, and the green service pipes run up through the walls where they were set in the slab.

From the gate, you now look into rooms rather than over them. The next job is the lintels, and then the decking for the first-floor slab.

Walls are rising from the floors.

The slabs have barely cured and the blocklayers are already on top of them. Ground-floor walls climbed across all three homes this week - most now stand waist to chest high, and from the air you can read every room, corridor, and doorway. The last of the three slabs was cast at the start of the week, so all three homes now have their floors down.

Thousands of blocks are staged across the compound for the courses still to come, and the green service pipes standing proud of the walls are going in as the blockwork rises rather than being chased in afterwards. From here, every course makes the three homes read more like homes.

The first concrete floors are down.

The biggest visual change on site so far. Damp-proof membrane has been laid over the compacted fill, and the ground-floor slabs are being cast section by section - the mixer ran all week, with granite, sand, and cement moving from the staging area straight into the floors. Two of the three homes now have most of their slab down; the third follows next.

The pipe sleeves you can see standing up out of the slabs are the plumbing and services routes, set in place before the concrete goes down rather than chased in afterwards. Slower to prepare, cleaner for the life of the house.

Filled, compacted, and ready for concrete.

Two weeks of work you will never see in the finished homes, and the homes would fail without it. Every room in all three foundations has been backfilled with laterite, rammed and compacted layer by layer. The column starter bars are in position at the corners - the steel the ground-floor columns will grow from.

Most of this fortnight was buckets, shovels, and rammers - the unglamorous middle of a build. Next up: damp-proof membrane and the first concrete floors.

Foundation walls up. Backfilling begins.

The foundation walls have risen to damp-proof course level across the site, and you can now walk the rooms of all three homes. Laterite backfilling of the rooms started this week, with the first sections already levelled and compacted.

Àríkẹ́, Ivory, and Adé are no longer lines on the ground - they are rooms you can stand in.

Three foundations, out of the ground.

The foundation crew arrived as scheduled. Footing blockwork was laid for all three homes this week - from the air, the full floor plans of Àríkẹ́, Ivory, and Adé are now readable on the ground. Granite, sand, and blocks are staged inside the compound and the crew worked through the week laying courses.

From here the walls rise to damp-proof course level, then the rooms are backfilled and compacted before the ground-floor slabs go down.

Borehole done. Setting out complete.

The borehole has been successfully drilled and completed this week. Water supply for the build and the finished homes is now secured. Setting out (house pegging) for all three homes is done - the exact position of Àríkẹ́, Ivory, and Adé is now marked on the ground.

Materials are now being delivered to site. Granite, blocks, and sand have arrived and are being staged. The foundation crew is scheduled to begin next week.

Site fenced, gated, and ready.

The perimeter wall is complete. The site office container is in position. Timber and blocks are staged for the foundation crew. Workers on site this week setting up the upright supports for what comes next.

The finished houses you can see behind our wall belong to the neighbouring compounds. We introduced ourselves to three of the four direct neighbours this week. A build is a relationship with the neighbourhood it sits in, for as long as it takes, and the houses you can see behind our wall are the neighbourhood we are joining, not the standard we are setting.

Before any work began, the full title chain was verified with Bashmash Solicitors. The Certificate of Statutory Right of Occupancy (Volume 3053, Page 60), the Ministry of Lands sub-division approval (reference LLA 0647/T/21), and the Deed of Assignment in favour of Adebayo Adekola all confirmed in writing. Governor's Consent application is in progress in parallel.

No construction work happens at LivMalik until the legal foundation is sound. That principle holds for every project we ever do.