Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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A Three Level Hierarchical Approach for Optimal Reactive power Planning IEEProc
(1992)The key of reactive power planning (RPP), or Var planning, is the optimal allocation of reactive power sources considering location and size. Traditionally, the locations for placing new Var sources were either simply ... -
Optimal Real and Reactive Power Control Using Linear Programming
(1992)This paper develops an improved real and reactive power control technique using linear programming (LP) for an integrated power system. The problem is decomposed into two subproblems comprising real (P) and reactive power ... -
Optimal Power Flow in Kenya
(1994)Economy and reliability of service are important considerations in power system operation and planning. These two aspects of a power system can be adequately satisfied by formulating a suitable optimal power flow problem ... -
The Optimal Sources of energy in Kenya
(1994)The electricity industry has an important role in developing a sustainable energy system, both regarding the use of electricity to improve environmental performance in society thus contributing to a better livingstandard ... -
The Kenya Power System
(1996)The widespread introduction and adoption of renewable energy technologies remains high on virtually every national development policy agenda; renewable energy systems can assist national energy autonomy, decentralize ... -
Optimal Long-term Reactive Power Planning Using Decomposition Techniques
(1991)This paper is to solve an optimal long-term reactive power planning problem. The long-term planning problem is decomposed into three levels using three decomposition techniques. First, the multiyear planning problem is ... -
Control Of Energy In Offices In Nairobi:
(1998)This paper traces briefly the evolution of highrise buildings in Kenya and notes that glass has become the exterior finish of choice. As a background, traditional methods of climatic design viz.: Mahoney Tables, Givoni ... -
A Manual For Organized Self-Help Densification Of Eastlands
(2005)In her century of existence, Nairobi has served as a laboratory of various housing strategies targeting the indigenous Africans and the poor. Discriminated based on racial segregation during colonisation, the poor have ... -
A Cost Modeling Design Strategy For Dweller-Initiated Transformation In Urban Housing
(2005)In her century of existence, Nairobi has served as a laboratory of various housing strategies targeting the indigenous Africans and the poor. Discriminated based on racial segregation during colonisation, the poor have ... -
Influence Of House Form On Dweller-Initiated Transformations In Urban Housing
(2006)Dweller-initiated transformations in housing are grudgingly being recognized as an alternative mode of producing dwellings in cities, particularly in the developing world. However, the environments generated are often ... -
Developer profits undermine residents’ satisfaction in Nairobi's residential neighbourhood: implications for local government in Kenya
(2003)This paper deals with the planning, delivery and implementation of a middle class housing scheme in Nairobi, focusing on the process of private sector residential area development. The paper analyses the planning aspects ... -
Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Kikuyu Religious Space
(2005)From the Christian theological perspective, inculturation is understood to be the process whereby the faith already embodied in one culture encounters another culture. In this encounter, the faith becomes part and parcel ... -
Transformation of Art and Architecture of Maasai.
(2006)Historically, it has been observed that people's settlements tend to change with their changing cultural values. Societies in early and rapid transition offer rich laboratories for the testing of this observation. The ... -
Microwave Route Surveying using Differential GPS
(2007)Advancements in global positioning system (GPS) technology now make GPS route choice data collection for travel diary studies and other transportation applications a reality. Opportunities abound for increased quantities ... -
Urbanization Process and the Spread of STDs, HIV and AIDS in Africa
(2003)It is well known that levels of HIV prevalence tend to be appreciably higher inurban areas. This article considers the reasons for this and shows that within world regions that are relatively homogeneous with respect to ... -
Robust geodetic parameter estimation through iterative weighting
(1994)A procedure for robust linear estimation of parameters on the basis of iterative weighting of observations is presented. The approach considers the weights of observations as not just functions of the observational variances, ... -
A three dimensional adjustment model for small scale survey networks.
(1995)A large-scale investigation of fracture flow was recently conducted in a granite uranium mine at Fanay-Augères, France. Its aim was to develop a methodology for the investigation of possible nuclear waste repository sites ... -
A model for a four-dimensional regional geodetic reference datum
(1997)A model for the establishment of a four-dimensional regional geodetic reference datum is presented. Starting from the three-dimensional integrated geodetic network model, formulations for the establishment of a four-dimensional ... -
The Kenya geodetic reference system project.
(1997)Preparation of a series of cadastral maps and distribution of the land ownership certificates to each landowner of the whole kingdom of Nepal has been completed recently. However, half of the cadastral mapping of the ... -
A three dimensional geodetic network model for the analysis of localised earth deformation.
(1997)Mathematical models, within the framework of integrated geodetic networks, for localised threedimensional geodetic monitoring networks are presented. The formulation of the mathematical models is based on the kinematic ...
