Hogging In Basement Slabs – Case of X Towers in Nairobi and the Need to Incorporate Groundwater Management in the National Building Code

Nairobi City is founded on volcanic rocks, whose structure can be massive (e.g., trachyte), vesicular (e.g., basaltic lava), or porous (e.g., tuff). These rocks occur in flow layers, usually tens of meters thick. This mode of occurrence alternates massive and porous rock layers, leading to a seasonal perched water table at many localities. Piezometric uplift […]

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MANAGING BLAST VIBRATION VELOCITY STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN CONSTRUCTION

Context As more land comes under settlement, physical infrastructure is being developed in closer proximity to residential areas. Environmental management of the impacts of these projects during construction is getting prominence due to higher number of complaints from quarrying, cutting, filling and compacting. These activities raise vibrations, noise and dust. Construction of the Kenyan Standard

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MAKING OUR CITIES MORE LIVABLE

Sustainable Development Goal 11 is ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. Chapter 7 of Agenda 21 calls for, among others, improving human settlements management; promoting sustainable land-use planning and management and promoting the integrated provision of environmental infrastructure: water, sanitation, drainage and solid waste management. Among the Goal 11 targets is

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