Tag: Buildesign Magazine
We released our 17th consecutive issue of the BUILDesign magazine in January 2016. The issue is currently in circulation and carries the following incisive features:-
We have reviewed the Kenya National Theatre building, an old and elegant piece of architecture...
Our latest edition of the BUILDesign Magazine is out. Pick your copy from leading stores in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. For a comprehensive list of the locations where you can obtain the magazine, click here. And you now...
ARCHETYPE OF PROFESSIONAL LOYALTY
For the last 36 years of his practice, Fellow Architect Allan Simu has stuck with Mutiso Menezes International (MMI) and worked his way up from a fresh graduate architect from the university to the current position...
By Martin Tairo
Many people tend to imagine that their projects are too ‘small’ to warrant any professional input. Always remember that if you are tearing down or moving any walls, or planning any new construction, it pays to hire...
By Eng. A. S. Kitololo
The figure quoted for annual housing needs of 150,000 units was arrived at in the seventies. I was then the Municipal Engineer of Mombasa Municipality at which time several studies on housing needs, costs and...
By Loki Eric David
Even though only the visible part of the solar radiation spectrum provides daylight useful for visual tasks, the whole spectrum, visible and invisible, contributes to heat gains when absorbed into the room. Numerous ways of improving...
Adam Miller, a security consultant with Carpe Diem, talks about why he brought in the new innovation in fighting crime using fog in Kenya.
This is the first of a series that we would run explaining exactly what this technology...
By Steve Ted Gome
Slums and informal settlements menace is a global phenomenon. The continent experienced its first slums soon after independence of the various countries. Settlements that may have begun as scattered establishments to provide temporary housing, over time...
Client: Industrial Promotion Building Ltd
Architects: Planning Systems Services Ltd & Henning Larsen Tegnestue
Structural Engineers: Ramzan Boga
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: Bikroconsult Ltd
Quantity Surveyors: Davson and Ward
Covered Area: 14,400 square metres
The client wanted to have a landmark building in Nairobi which...
By Eric Loki
Over the years, research on the treatment of openings in tropical buildings has focused only on the extreme cases, with most offered solutions so far being based on the need for strict control of direct solar radiation....
