New-Bell · Douala · Cameroon and Germany
No plot is too small for a serious building
A multi-trade building contractor in Douala. We design and build on plots others turn down: one hundred and thirty square metres are enough for three storeys of housing and retail above a ground floor. Design, structure, finishing, pools, boreholes and power.
130 m²The plot of a delivered G+3
Where we stand
« Good advice is not always a matter of price. It is a matter of competence. »
Fanz Global Construction
Those are our own words and they commit us. The cheapest quotation is nearly always the one that overlooked a constraint: a load path, a high water table, a planning rule. We would rather tell you what the plot allows before telling you what the work costs, even if that means announcing fewer storeys than you hoped for.
What we build
Four kinds of work, one contract
We are a multi-trade contractor: ten trades answering to one point of contact. You do not coordinate five separate firms, you sign one contract.
On site
A documented project
Every project carries its reference, location, plot area and project manager. Sites are also surveyed by drone, which gives a view nobody has from the ground.
Ing. Takedo Mingue, project manager, on site FGC 140324.
Small plots
No plot is too small
One hundred and thirty square metres, three storeys
It is all decided at the study stage, before the first line is drawn. Boundaries, setbacks, planning rules, bearing capacity, plant access: those constraints draw the buildable envelope, not the other way round. A contractor who tells you a number of storeys before seeing the land is selling you a disappointment.
A plot three contractors have turned down is not a lost plot. It is a plot nobody studied properly.
How it works
From the plot to the keys
Six stages, in order. The first one decides all the others, and it is the one most contractors skip.
Studying the plot
What the land actually allows: boundaries, planning rules, ground conditions, access. This is where you learn whether the four storeys you hoped for are three, and it is better learnt now.
Design
The layout that draws the most usable area from the square metres available. On a small plot, every centimetre saved on circulation is another room.
Quotation and programme
Ten trades priced under one contract, with the calendar that goes with it. Holding five separate firms together is our job, not yours.
Structural works
Foundations, frame, floors, walls. On a narrow plot, organising the site matters as much as the concrete: there is no room to do things in the wrong order.
Finishing trades
Electrical, plumbing, air conditioning, metal joinery, paint, and the pool and borehole if there are any. Same crews, same point of contact.
Handover
Snagging, testing, keys. And the drone footage of the finished building, which stays with you.
Who we work with
Our clients
Private clients, investors, businesses, and a clientele living in Europe who build back home.
From Europe
Building back home, from Germany
We have a German number and it is not decoration. Part of our work is with clients living in the Rhineland who are building in Douala.
« The problem with a site run from Europe is almost never technical. It is that you see nothing, and you do not know who to call at your own hour. »
Contact
Tell us about your plot
Tell us where the land is and what you want to build on it. The initial study and the first visit commit you to nothing.