Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Characteristics strength and treat ability of a recycled paper mill wastewater in a UASB reactor
(2004)This study set out to examine the policy position in Kenyan health care financing, with regard to implementation of the proposed social health scheme (NSHIF) and its performance potential. The specific objectives were to: ... -
Visionary leadership and knowledge management in water services
(2004)his study set out to examine the policy position in Kenyan health care financing, with regard to implementation of the proposed social health scheme (NSHIF) and its performance potential. The specific objectives were to: ... -
Form Making in Architecture
(2012)Form making is one of the most important activities that the architect is engaged in when creating architecture. During the process of form making the architect expresses the individual perceptions of reality in tangible ... -
Riparian Zones in Nairobi City
(2012)This article is a contribution to the current debate on the concepts of land use planning and riparian zone conservation. It discusses some of the major theoretical and conceptual issues that impact on the practice of ... -
A dichotomized spatial planning policy approach and the Informal- formal polarization in the Urban Areas of Kenya
(2012)This paper contends that the proliferation of urban informality in Kenya is more pronounced in the former African settlements than in areas that were formerly occupied by Europeans and Asians during colonial rule. The ... -
Sustainable Swahili Architecture; Reconciling Urban Conservation, Tourism and Sustainable Development
(2012)Urbanisation and globalisation have led to loss of features in many ancient and new settlements in the world, which define their identity. In the East African Coast, such features are fast disappearing. This erosion of ... -
Intelligent Buildings in Kenya
(2012)Buildings have a profound impact on the quality of our lives and on the world around us. They have enhanced our communities and enriched our well-being. On the commercial front, they support and house the operations of ... -
Rental Value Trends in Commercial Real Estate Investments in Tanzania
(2012)Real estate investment provides substantial diversification benefits for pension funds and other investors in the short to medium term, against all odds of unpredictable shock waves of inflation rates and frail GDP growth. ... -
Globalization and Regionalism: Complimentary or Antagonistic Paradigms
(2012)Globalization widely denotes internationalization of economies, tastes, goods and services through international exchange, economic, developmental and governmental systems. Meanwhile, regionalism is a progressive phenomenon ... -
Modelling Early Childhood Development Centers in Rwanda
(2012)This paper discusses the crucial role played by architecture in informing decisions and outcomes of a small architectural project focused on breaking the cycle of poverty. It is based on experiences, literature research, ... -
The Survival of the Traditional Swahili House Design in the Coastal Areas of East Africa
(2012)Housing issues in developing countries have occupied the minds of many researchers and policy makers in government, donor and research agencies. The problems associated with housing continue to be experienced, including ... -
An Analysis of the Causes of Failures in the Implementation of Projects in Kenya
(2012)Project implementation is the actualization of the sequences of activities that are designed to achieve the aims of the project. It is the phase in which the project deliverables are physically built and delivered to the ... -
The role of architecture in Kenya Vision 2030; a case of University of Nairobi
(2011)This paper develops two lines of thought about how the discipline and profession of architecture can become critical players in the delivery of Vision 2030 in Kenya. The first dimension argues for the recognition of ... -
Merging Indigenous African and Western Knowledge Systems; I
(2011)Since colonial times, Euro centricism has eroded development and modernization of not only indigenous African architectural design values but also other Sub-Saharan, socio-cultural heritage knowledge and practices. From ... -
Variations in policies on urban-rural relations and the evolution of different patterns of urban sprawl in world Cities;
(2011)Classical theories of urban sprawl are based on the assumption that peri-urban formation evolves in a homogeneous rural-urban space surface. As a result, urban sprawl is mistakenly viewed to take place in the form of ... -
Alleviating GaLa’s poly-mess; archetypal eco-ethical product design outlook
(School of the Arts & Design, University of Nairobi, 2011)The deplorable state of the environment has lately become a major issue nationally and internationally. A major contributor to this sorry state is polythene (plastics). Towards better understanding of this issue, this paper ... -
Infrastructure Development in Global Economic Meltdown;
(Department of Project Management Technology Federal University of Technology Oweri, Nigeria, 2011)The current global economic meltdown has major roots in real estate with the construction subsector being a very important economic indicator but also reacting faster to a recession arising from the usual resultant credit ... -
Dissemination of architectural knowledge among research, training and practice
(Department of Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi., 2011)Within the field of architecture, architects and scholars appear to have difficulty making sense of one another’s experience and the relationship between practice and research is often uneven and unclear. In addition, ... -
Developing resources for the training of architects
(Department of Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 2011)individual level. Changing demands for the services of architecture within the building industry require that the training of architects be tailored in a manner that conforms to these changing trends. In this paper, ... -
Effects of globalization in training architectural design
(Department of Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi, 2011)African architect unable to solve context-specific design challenges or explore context-specific design opportunities that Africa offers. This paper analyses some of the basis of western training that have had structural impacts ...
