Cost of reinforcement in Nigeria

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Reinforcements or Steel bars are important structural components of any building which are mainly used to receive and transfer loads from one point to another. They come in different sizes, sometimes the structural engineer may recommend the 12mm, 16mm, 20mm, 25mm, 10mm, 8mm, or others depending on the strength of material and other design specifications.

There are four steel bar types used for load bearing purposes. They include Cold Worked Steel, Prestressing Steel, Hot Rolled Deformed Bars and Mild Steel Plain bars.

The type commonly used in enhancing the tensile strength of concrete in beams and columns in Nigeria fall under the Hot Rolled Deformed Bars category and that is the most popular of all Rods types. In case you are going to the building material markets soon, these Reinforcements are commonly known as Iron rods by traders and it takes different finishing for different construction purposes.

For small to medium scale projects, 6mm, 8mm and 10mm bar sizes will economically do the work without adding unnecessary weight to the building. But for complex engineering constructions like bridges, and tunnel where length of work run in Kilometers of lengths, higher diameter bars will be needed so as not to degrade the structural integrity of the project

Reinforcement: Prices of Iron rods in Nigeria

For Contractors, Real estate developers, structural engineers, Masons, Quantity surveyors or estimators who may want to know the price per kg of Iron rods in their locality, know now that it may vary as the amount provided here is the likely cost of this building material in this year. Depending on how you choose to order for them, retail or wholesale quantities are usually sold per ton. Therefore, to make things easy, the amount per unit of TMT rod recommended by Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is below.

The average price per ton of TMT iron rods for the month of September 2022 is ₦420,000. 

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