From the site,
week by week.

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.