Holiday Monday

It's holiday this Monday in Everberg.. another lost day for the construction on the street.

In Belgium, there are a lot of public holidays in May.

House 1, 2 & 3

Don't have pictures of houses 1, 2 & 3.

However the progress is the following.

House 1, half cellar is now completed.

House 2, roof is almost completed, with virtually all roof tiles in place.

House 3, foundations have been dug and the concrete poured into them.

House 4

Actually quite decent progress on House 4, considering that they also dug out the foundations for house 3 at the same time.

This is is a different sub-contractor of BIK Maison Woningen than the ones building house 7 and 8. Will be interesting to see the speed and quality difference.

House 7

House 7 - brickwork looks now to be finished by the BIK Maison Woningen sub-contractor and they have also fitted the roof joists and the blue stone around the windows. So starting in January, it takes 5months to build this size house.. without a cellar. I

House 8

Again - House 8, looks the same as it did last week, and the week before that. All that happens on House 8 is the amount of equipment changing - but no actual construction work happens. This is very slow progress - the foundation has been completed for almost 4 months - but no bricks.

House 9

So House 9 has also started, this now means 7 out of the 9 houses have some form of construction. This leaves House 5 and 6 as the only house out of the first 9 - not to be started.

House 9 is being constructed by the 4th different contractor on site. Creabouw from Vichte. Looks like Creabouw has first removed the earth for a cellar.

The earth looks quite clay -

House 7 - Reaching the Roof

Picture of House 7 - one of the BIK Maison Woningen constructions on this street in Everberg, Belgium.

It is a multiple level house with 3 facades and 2 different types of bricks. Not so many windows in the whole house, so I wonder how dark it will be inside.

This was the first house that was started, back at the start of 2007.

Marks in the Ground

Some strange marks in the ground, looks like somebody has been driving over plot 9 ?

The Construction Schedule of Everberg Houses

What is the expected construction and completion date of each house here in Everberg Belgium - this the date when the house is turned over to the owner and they can start to live there. At that stage, maybe not everything is finished, such as drive and garden. Sometimes even the interior is not completely finished, however should be good enough to live in.

Here is my estimate based on the progress that we see today - and also based the amount of people working on the site of the different companies (including the hours that the companies are prepared to work each day) and allowance for the weather. The current contractors on site are the Unibuilder and two sub-contractors of the company BIK Maison Woningen.

House 1 -> March 08 ................Unibuilder
House 2 -> December 07.......... Unibuilder
House 3 -> July 08........ ........... BIK -Maison - Woningen
House 4 -> April 08 .................. BIK - Maison - Woningen
House 5 -> July 08 .................... BIK - Maison - Woningen
House 6 -> July 08 .....................BIK - Maison - Woningen
House 7 -> December 07 ...........BIK - Maison - Woningen
House 8 -> May 08 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,BIK - Maison - Woningen
House 9 -> ?

How accurate do you think these estimates are ?

Progress

The first sign was planted in Feb 2005 by BIK Maison Woningen.

The sign has now gone as house No1 gets under full construction.

I wonder who has the sign of BIK?

Who is working today?

Well today it was Friday, a nice day in Everberg.

Which building company was working today.

Was it BIK Maison - Woningen ?

No.

However progress was happening on House no. 1, but this is not a BIK Maison House.

National Holiday

Latest pictures from Everberg today in the below post. Nobody working because it is a national holiday.

House 1 - foundations have started
House 2 - roof is well under way
House 3 - foundation strings have been marked
House 4 - bricks already started
House 5 - nothing
House 6 - nothing
House 7 - working on the final bricks and starting the roof
House 8 - foundations completed
House 9 - nothing.

What a Week of Construction

Well, what a week.

Despite a bit of indifferent weather here in Everberg, there has been quite some construction activity on the street.

We now have 5 (FIVE) houses under construction.The two additional properties that have started are houses 1 and 4. It is not clear which building company is going to be constructing these houses.

Have a look at the pictures below.

House 8

House 8

House 7

House 7

House 4

House 4

House 2

House 2

House 1

House 1

Weather Changing ?

From the weather forecast the weather looks to be changing.

Next week the weather might not be so nice as the past 4 weeks.. I wonder what impact this has on the construction progress?

so since March 10th.. house 7 has been under construction by BIK Maison / Woningen.

looks like until this is finished, then BIK maison / Woningen will start on house 8. Which means no progress will be made on house 8 for another few weeks - but the foundations were completed at the start of March.. so for 2 full months, no further progress on that house.

the roof timber for house 7 was delivered 2 weeks ago.. there must be another 2 - 3 weeks of brick work left.. so does this mean they are already 1 month behind house 7?

What is the Box?

A new development here. What is this new metal box that has arrived on the street ? Is this the sign of another crew of people arriving to start building one of the houses - is it a sub-contractor of BIK Maison / woningen, or is it a different building company altogether. Maybe in a day or so we can find out what is happening.

It is strange that only 3 houses out of 9 have been started on this small street in Everberg, Belgium.

Earth Gone !

earth is now being removed.

Weekly Progress

and again, week after week.. the house not built by BIK maison / woningen is still the furthest in construction.

House number 7, the BIK maison woningen construction - how different is the picture from the previous week?

Beautiful weather again.. and lets see how much progress on this building site here in Everberg, Belgium, even though there was a national holiday, still plenty of time with perfect building weather. Here is house number 8. Again, Zero progress on this house.

Houses in Everberg, Belgie

The first post of May 2007.

So the story so far.

On this street in Everberg, Belgie, there were going to be 9 (NINE) really very nice houses built by BIK Maison / Woningen.

So far, just one house has some bricks laid, another house has a foundation - and that it is from BIK Maision / Woningen so far. Not a lot of progress, since the very sign was first put up advertising the project in February 2005.

The only other house that is under construction on this street at the moment - well that is being built by an independent builder, we call him the uni-builder, as he works completely on his own.

For the other 6 houses, absolutely nothing has happened on the site in Everberg so far. I wonder how many houses will be constructed by the end of 2007?