Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Motivation and its Effect on Productivity of Workers in the Kenyan Construction Industry
(2010)Human resource today has a strategic role for productivity increase of any organization. Effective and optimum use of human resource could result to enhanced productivity. Therefore, this study examined motivation as one ... -
The Relationship Between Actual and Perceived Risk in Building Contracts in Kenya
(2008)The success of any project critically depends on the extent to which inherent risks are identified, analysed, allocated to the parties and managed. Sound analysis of the potential impact of risk in turn depends on the ... -
A Spatial Analysis of the Intra-National Digital Divide in Kenya as a Regional Development Dilemma
(2010)In the past, different technologies' have had varied impacts on the development of nations, regions, cities, and citizens worldwide. Currently, the impacts of information and communication technologies (rCTs)2 are the ... -
Theoretical Underpinnings of Urban Sprawl;
(2009)Urban managers and planners alike are concerned about the occurrence of urban sprawl in cities because of the myriad problems associated with such a phenomenon, First and foremost , urban sprawl takes place in prime ... -
Rural-Urban Dualism and Ineffective Land use Control Instruments at the Rural- Urban Interface
(2008)The colonial policy of racial segregation in Kenya divided the space economy into urban and rural. The rural areas were resided by Africans and the main economic activities were agriculture and livestock, Settlement.s were ... -
Burying as an interment method and its impact on land in Kenyan urban areas
(1989)Modern society has become increasingly concerned with how land is used. Its fixed supply and the increased demand exert pressure for land to be used more intensively. Conflicts often arise between different users that hold ... -
Displacement, minorities, and human security
(2003)Before the last century, Africa could be termed as having been a "dynamic area" with people in constant motion. However, within the same duration, the continent has also had a period of inertia in relation to mass movements ... -
The Impact of Enclosed Neighbourhoods on Privatization of Public Space: A Comparative Analysis of Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Ibadan
(2011)Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Ibadan have witnessed a rapid development of enclosed neighbourhoods where residents have taken upon themselves to restrict access to pre-existing neighbourhoods in various ways. The most common ... -
Kenya: Urban Settlements and Development Profile
(2006)This paper presents a development pro¬file of a sample of urban settlements in Kenya. Kenya is experiencing very rapid population growth, particularly in urban areas. The number and size of urban settlements has grown ... -
Informalising a planned neighbourhood in Nairobi
(2004)Nairobi is in many ways an archetype of the African colonial city, having purely colonial origins, which shaped its structure and management at the time of Kenya’s transition to independence. In fact, Nairobi was born ... -
Nairobi’s Informal Modernism
(2005)A lot of literature on ur ban development in developing countries has entirely focused on the nexus between rapid urbanization, Gross Geographic Pr oduct (GGP) and poverty growth with little research that demonstr ates ... -
Spatial Transformations in Nairobi. A study of Nairobi’s Urban Process
(2008)A generalized Newling function to the fourth degree is used as a regionalizing technique to analyze population density data from the 1969 national census of Kenya in order to identify the spatial structure of Nairobi, ... -
Informal Urbanism in Nairobi
(2011)Post-colonial Nairobi has experienced a rapid urbanization rate averaging 5 per cent per annum from 1963 to the present. The planning framework inherited from the colonial regime and little changed after Independence has ... -
Temporal hydrologic response of unstable crusting soils in Semi- arid areas of Kenya
(1998)Over the past three decades, agricultural watersheds in semi-arid Kenya have experienced some rapid decline in soil and crop productivity due to severe soil erosion, low soil water, low soil fertility and high soil ... -
. Influence of selected tillage operations on draft power and penetration resistance of a crusting soil.
(2000)Depending on the top and subsoil textures, semi-arid soils exhibit cohesive and frictional properties that are associated with the relatively high soil strength, bulk density and penetration resistance. The objective of ... -
Conservation tillage implements and operations for soil and water management in Eastern and Southern Africa
(2000)Improved agricultural productivity using conservation farming (CF) systems based on non-inversion tillage methods, have predominantly originated from farming systems in sub-humid to humid regions where water is not a key ... -
Triaxial testing of a Cemented Agricultural Soil under Varying Soil Water Levels
(2005)The soil-water characteristic curve can be used to estimate various parameters used to describe unsaturated soil behaviour. A general equation for the soil-water characteristic curve is proposed. A nonlinear, least-squares ... -
Transition from Brittle Failure to Ductile Flow of a luvisol Soil
(2006)A comprehensive programme of triaxial compression tests was carried out on unsaturated samples of a sand, a loam soil and a clay. The samples were prepared under laboratory conditions in two microstructural states where ... -
Influence of soil water on stress-strain behaviour of a compacting soil in semi-arid Kenya
(2006)Depending on the top and subsoil textures, semi-arid soils exhibit cohesive and frictional properties that are associated with the relatively high soil strength, bulk density and penetration resistance. The objective of ... -
The limiting value of the fleet angle of a rope running off a sheave
(2005)Based upon specialised experience of rope mechanics spanning over 20 years, this paper reviews the processes of degradation and fatigue that are relevant to hoisting ropes in mines. The review is brought up to date ...
