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Our own photographs, from our own sites.

No stock imagery anywhere on this page. Every picture below was taken on a Ragmah contract, mid-works or at handover.

Nansana Municipal Council

Refurbishment of a working council building. Scaffold raised against the front elevation for roof edge and fascia repair, facade making good and external redecoration, with the public entrance kept open behind taped barriers, cones, warning boards and marshals throughout.

Location
Nansana, Wakiso
Client type
Municipal council
Divisions used
Refurbishment, finishes
Constraint
Building stayed open
Crew spreading and raking hot asphalt across a trading-centre carriageway with tipper trucks alongside
Roads & highways

Trading-centre carriageway surfacing

Asphalt concrete laid over a prepared and primed base through an active trading centre, with shoulder gravelling, edge control and traffic kept moving past the paving front.

Completed black asphalt road running through a hillside trading centre with shops on both sides
Roads & highways

Completed surfaced road

The same class of work at handover: sealed carriageway, formed shoulders and drainage falls carrying water off the running surface.

Vibrating roller compacting a large murram platform in front of blue and green industrial sheds
Earthworks

Industrial platform compaction

Bulk fill placed and rolled in layers to form a truck-bearing yard alongside a new steel-framed warehouse.

Wheel loader spreading murram in front of a long steel-framed warehouse under construction
Earthworks & plant

Warehouse site formation

Loader work shaping fill to formation level across an industrial plot while the steel frame went up behind it.

Technician kneeling to run a field density test with sand-cone apparatus and a weighing scale on compacted murram
Testing, Mukono

Field density testing

Compaction verified on the platform before the next layer went in, with results recorded against the location and date.

Twin concrete culverts set into a hand-packed stone headwall discharging water below a new road embankment
Drainage & water

Twin culvert crossing with stone-pitched headwall

Pipe culverts bedded and surrounded, then a hand-packed stone headwall and apron built to take the discharge without scouring the embankment behind it.

Tracked excavator cutting a silted drainage channel through wetland vegetation
Drainage & environmental

Wetland channel rehabilitation

A blocked watercourse reopened by tracked excavator, with arisings placed clear of the channel to stop them washing straight back in.

Road formation with a freshly cut side drain running past shops in a busy trading centre
Roads & drainage

Formation and side drain excavation

Carriageway shaped to camber and a side drain cut to grade through a live trading centre, keeping shop frontages accessible.

Crew placing and levelling concrete over mesh reinforcement and hardcore, with a site mixer running
Concrete works

Reinforced access slab

Hardcore, polythene and mesh set out, then concrete batched on site and placed in a continuous pour to a controlled fall.

Concrete pump boom reaching over a formwork deck on a graded industrial site
Concrete works

Pumped deck pour

Pump access brought in for a raised deck where the site had no crane route, with formwork and propping checked before placing.

Two-storey reinforced concrete apartment frame with columns, balconies and a breeze-block screen wall
Building works

Apartment block frame

Columns, suspended slabs and balcony edges cast and stripped, with a decorative breeze-block stair screen closing the gable.

Coursed stone masonry walls carrying newly set timber and steel roof trusses
Masonry & roofing

Walling and roof structure

Stone walling brought up to ring beam, then wall plates and trusses set and braced ready for sheeting.

Painters finishing the walls of a completed classroom block with a red sheeted roof and green window frames
Building works & finishes

Classroom block, render to paint

The same building carried through render, screed, joinery and painting, with the apron, steps and compound levels finished before handover.

Completed institutional building with plastered walls, painted plinth and a wide concrete apron
Building works

Institutional block at handover

Finished elevation, painted plinth, apron cast to fall away from the walls and the compound graded and cleared.

Worker on an existing arched concrete structure surrounded by timber props during remedial works
Maintenance

Structural repair and making good

Propping and remedial render on an existing arched structure, corrected before finishes were allowed anywhere near it.

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