CTSR’s precast concrete system holds promise for mass housing

A new building technology making its way into Nigeria’s construction industry is offering yet another bait to mass housing developers, with a concept that claims the ability to enhance efficiency by 70 times compared to traditional construction methods.
At a precast factory, which will cover over the 100,000 square metres of land, situated close to the Abuja Train Station in Idu Industrial Area of the territory, a demonstration project has commenced and, if the expectation of the promoters are anything to go by, the new technology will support the efforts of the Federal Government in reducing the huge housing deficit in the country estimated at over 17 million.

Behind the German technology in Nigeria, is one of the nation’s leading real estate developer and construction firm, CTSR Group Limited. The company plans to set up its second factory along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the second quarter of the year.
A precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mould or form, which is then cured in a controlled environment, and transported to the construction site and lifted into place.
The President of CTSR Group, Mrs. Funke Otti, who confirmed the development after a meeting with the stakeholders in the industry, said the factory would provide integrated solutions of precast concrete construction for residential and commercial buildings, public and industrial facilities and infrastructure for over 20 years.
Otti said: “CTSR Group is the Nigerian sole partner of Broad Homes, the multinational automated precast concrete production, building and Construction Company headquartered in China.
“The group is in business to deliver total precast design-build systems for many applications—from mixed-use to industrial, institutional to power generation. It intends to provide affordable housing to residents of the FCT and Nigerians across the country through the use of automated precast concrete technology.
“The technology provides factory made sustainable buildings, including reinforced concrete pre-casting, which is more efficient and durable energy-saving technology. The technology is of a higher quality having gone through standard manufacturing and assembly processes and cost effective.”
Otti told The Guardian that the main prototypes have been set up at the factory in 14 days – four days for the main structure while interiors and finishing takes about one week.
“To deliver durable, standardised, consistent quality homes, we must apply technology. Precast concrete is one of the suitable technology that can address housing shortage. We can offer buildings at 25 per cent less the cost of conventional construction,” she said.
According to the CTSR boss, the Abuja precast factory will consist of production plants, batching plant for concrete mixing, reinforcement plant and administrative block, among others.

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Hinkley Point deal under fire as construction 'milestone' hit before contract signed

The Government is facing fresh criticism over the Hinkley Point nuclear deal after it emerged a condition supposed to ensure the £18bn plant was being built on schedule had already been met before contract was signed.
A clause in the subsidy deal gives ministers the right to cancel the contract if EDF, which has been plagued by delays building reactors elsewhere, has not hit a construction “milestone” within 33 months of taking its final investment decision.
The milestone requires the “commissioning of the main concrete batching plant” at the Somerset site.
But the Telegraph can disclose that EDF believes it has already “achieved that milestone”, after two concrete batching plants were commissioned earlier this year, months before the deal was inked in September.
While the meeting of the condition still has to be officially signed off by the Government agency handling the contract, EDF expects this to be “completed shortly”.
This renders the milestone clause largely pointless and leaves no other lever to ensure construction is proceeding as planned in coming years.
Ministers argue EDF has an incentive to build Hinkley by its 2025 target date because it will not receive any income until it starts generating.
However, the contract, which has been widely criticised as too generous, allows EDF to retain the same subsidy deal if Hinkley is up to four years late and only lets the Government cancel if it is still not running by 2033.

Alan Whitehead MP, Labour’s shadow energy minister, said ministers must confirm whether they knew the computerized concrete batching plant has already been built when the subsidy contract was signed.
If they did, it would be “a pretty alarming reflection on the way this particular contract may have been drawn up” and raised “serious questions”, he said.
Milestones were intended as a “protection of public money” to enable ministers to act “where funding is going into something which it is evident is not going to happen”, he said.
“You could be forgiven for the suspicion that this was a potentially deliberate clause which could have been designed to make it impossible for the milestone agreement to be breached,” he said.
Nigel Cann, EDF programme and construction delivery director, said one of the lessons it had learnt from its projects elsewhere had been “to have the concrete batching plant tested and operational on site at an early stage”.
“The condition was used in the contract as a mark for the start of significant construction on site. We intend to keep meeting such challenges with a similar commitment to safety, quality, and efficiency,” he said.
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said: "The Government is committed to ensuring the country has a secure low carbon energy supply.
"We are confident that Hinkley Point C will be a critical part of that, and there are incentives in the contract for EDF to build the concrete batching plant features on time."

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