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 […]