QUESTION $2$

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You are part of the Soshanguve housing project, as shown in Figure $1,$ and your duties include quantity measurement, material ordering, and liaising with the resident engineer pertaining to daily progress. The house has a length of $6$ m and a breadth of $3\mathrm{.}5$ m $.2\mathrm{.}1.$ Determine the bank and loose condition of the soil if the trench to be excavated is $400$ mm wide

by $600$ mm deep and the bulking factor is $1\mathrm{.}1$

$2\mathrm{.}2.$ Calculate the volume of concrete needed to cast $200$mm deep footing and $150$ mm slab. ignore brick wall width

$2\mathrm{.}3.$ Determine the number of bricks needed to build a $220$ mm wide foundational wall if the height is $400$ mm and $55$ bricks per square meter.