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Re: የቁጩ ኮንዶሚኒየም ግንባታ!
Not surprised!
On another note, the man who's stuck on the 8th floor due to health conditions, hope someone tells him exercise is the best medicine for the ailments he listed, high blood pressure and diabetes. Losing some of his weight is part of the healing process. Changing his diet, going on a low carb diet will help him a lot too. I am not dismissing his unfortunate living condition of a condo without elevator service. Just saying that type 2 diabetes can be reversed, there is lot of scientific research to back this up. And high blood pressure can also be brought down with exercise and change of diet too. These two are tied together including heart disease. If continues to be sedentary, his condition will get worse. Hope someone will share with him this info.
On another note, the man who's stuck on the 8th floor due to health conditions, hope someone tells him exercise is the best medicine for the ailments he listed, high blood pressure and diabetes. Losing some of his weight is part of the healing process. Changing his diet, going on a low carb diet will help him a lot too. I am not dismissing his unfortunate living condition of a condo without elevator service. Just saying that type 2 diabetes can be reversed, there is lot of scientific research to back this up. And high blood pressure can also be brought down with exercise and change of diet too. These two are tied together including heart disease. If continues to be sedentary, his condition will get worse. Hope someone will share with him this info.
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Sam Ebalalehu
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Re: የቁጩ ኮንዶሚኒየም ግንባታ!
This is very enlightening. I applaud the news crew for its work. The journalist who questioned the bureaucrats has done a splendid job. The bureaucrats, as one expects, are good at not answering questions. Does anyone could summarize what anyone of those bureaucrats has said. I do not think so. They kill the language in order to confuse. With the bureaucratic culture that exists in Ethiopia that the country will transform to a robust economy remain a pipedream. If Ethiopia has to declare a war it has to be on her bureaucrats because they are the fertile ground for corruption. Beyond all those non answers no doubt lurk a huge corruption. That is not a hearsay; it is a fact.
Re: የቁጩ ኮንዶሚኒየም ግንባታ!
My observations & conclusions based on the interview & some of the condominiums I personally visited last year:
<> Most of the condominiums are built in a rush without proper studies & peer review. The designs are completed in 4-8 weeks. That’s why there is an error in the stair width, a ground water & storm water flooding in the basement. These are only the things that are visible to the eyes, so I suspect there are other concealed defects that may include building foundations, upper structures, floors, windows, walls & roofs. God forbid but these design & construction flaws will not reveal themselves until a cyclone or an earth tremor occurs. I would do thorough investigations immediately & jail the Architect, the contractor & the city manager. I was furious when the city official implied that they would pump the ground water. Are you kidding me? Are you going to continuously run a pump for the next 50 years or so? It’s evident that no geotechnical engineer was involved in the site study.
<> The first step in housing provisions is called “site & services.” In other words, the land and the infrastructure should be available first before any construction starts. Without water, electricity & sewer, these condominiums will turn into a high-rise slum. The city officials are not qualified for this job and they should be fired.
<> With accelerated design & construction schedule, material procurements should occur early in order to avoid delaying of long delivery items such as elevators, transformers or pumps. It’s evident from the interview that the officials don’t have any clue when and how these things will be procured. I would jail the project manager & contractor.
<> It is fundamentally wrong to build such large scale tall condominiums in the city outskirts while there is an electric power shortage & elevators are an import & high maintenance items. Even if they manage to install them in a year or two, they will require frequent repair & spare parts, which aren’t readily available. The city has this misconception that high density could only be achieved by tall buildings. That’s simply not true. This empty & misplaced grandiosity copied from Chinese cities when basic services are nonexistent is a reflection of the stupidity & inflated sense of self among city officials, policy makers & professions.
<> The city doesn’t really give a damn about operation & maintenance. They pack 50-80 families in one building, get the fees and walk away. If the plaster cracks, the roof leaks or windows fail, the condo owners are all on their own. I have seen that those condominiums built more than 10 years ago are already aging when in fact their lifespan before any repair should have been 20-25 years. The plasters are peeling & cracking, molds are growing, windows are staining or the glasses are replaced with cardboards. And it’s very common that shower pans leak into the lower apartments. If the city is serious about the housing program, they should hire multi-disciplinary professionals to study all condominium built in the last 15-20 years to draw lessons out of it, so these mistakes don’t happen again. And they should put in place comprehensive operation & maintenance guidelines.
My 2 cents!
<> Most of the condominiums are built in a rush without proper studies & peer review. The designs are completed in 4-8 weeks. That’s why there is an error in the stair width, a ground water & storm water flooding in the basement. These are only the things that are visible to the eyes, so I suspect there are other concealed defects that may include building foundations, upper structures, floors, windows, walls & roofs. God forbid but these design & construction flaws will not reveal themselves until a cyclone or an earth tremor occurs. I would do thorough investigations immediately & jail the Architect, the contractor & the city manager. I was furious when the city official implied that they would pump the ground water. Are you kidding me? Are you going to continuously run a pump for the next 50 years or so? It’s evident that no geotechnical engineer was involved in the site study.
<> The first step in housing provisions is called “site & services.” In other words, the land and the infrastructure should be available first before any construction starts. Without water, electricity & sewer, these condominiums will turn into a high-rise slum. The city officials are not qualified for this job and they should be fired.
<> With accelerated design & construction schedule, material procurements should occur early in order to avoid delaying of long delivery items such as elevators, transformers or pumps. It’s evident from the interview that the officials don’t have any clue when and how these things will be procured. I would jail the project manager & contractor.
<> It is fundamentally wrong to build such large scale tall condominiums in the city outskirts while there is an electric power shortage & elevators are an import & high maintenance items. Even if they manage to install them in a year or two, they will require frequent repair & spare parts, which aren’t readily available. The city has this misconception that high density could only be achieved by tall buildings. That’s simply not true. This empty & misplaced grandiosity copied from Chinese cities when basic services are nonexistent is a reflection of the stupidity & inflated sense of self among city officials, policy makers & professions.
<> The city doesn’t really give a damn about operation & maintenance. They pack 50-80 families in one building, get the fees and walk away. If the plaster cracks, the roof leaks or windows fail, the condo owners are all on their own. I have seen that those condominiums built more than 10 years ago are already aging when in fact their lifespan before any repair should have been 20-25 years. The plasters are peeling & cracking, molds are growing, windows are staining or the glasses are replaced with cardboards. And it’s very common that shower pans leak into the lower apartments. If the city is serious about the housing program, they should hire multi-disciplinary professionals to study all condominium built in the last 15-20 years to draw lessons out of it, so these mistakes don’t happen again. And they should put in place comprehensive operation & maintenance guidelines.
My 2 cents!