Category Archives: Lord’s Servants Academy

LSA Building Update #7

Even though heavy rains have slowed deliveries and workers, quite a bit of progress has been made.  The balance of the brick work is nearly done and the roof trusses have been fabricated and poised to be raised onto the walls.  The veranda (porch) cement has been laid.  The roof trusses are built on site and made of very hard rough sawn wood.  With no snow load in Kenya, they can be placed on 6′ centers.  The next step is to place the trusses, tie them together with the roof runner strips, then nail on the corrugated iron sheet roofing.

Brick work nearly complete and ready for the roof

Brick work nearly complete and ready for the roof

Fabricated roof trusses

Fabricated roof trusses

Roof trusses ready to be raided in place on the walls

Roof trusses ready to be raided in place on the walls

Veranda (porch) concrete

Veranda (porch) concrete

LS Academy Building Update #6

This photo shows the lintel completed on top of all the walls and circling the building which acts as a header above the doors and windows and ties the walls together.  The lintel is a roughly 6″ square cross-section of concrete and steel reinforcing rods.  Next up…more courses of bricks and the trusses for the roof.

Addition of the lintel at the top of the walls.

Addition of the lintel at the top of the walls.

LS Academy building Update #5

The walls are up to what they call the “Lentil”.  The lentil is a steel reinforced concrete beam that runs the full length od the walls just above the top of the door and window openings.  It functions like what we would call a “Header”  The lentil is the next step.  The rains are not too bad this year which normally would hinder construction and material deliveries.  Thanks God!

Walls complete to the lentil course.

Walls complete to the lentil course.