| dc.description.abstract | This survey was undertaken in response to a request received
from the Chief Architect; Buildings Department, Ministry of
Works (ref B.4/E/8/11619) and was approved of by the Joint
Advisory Board of the Housing Research and Development
Unit at its 6th meeting on March 1st 1973.
The Ministry of Works has recently built at
National Hospital the following flats:
80 single bedroom nurses' flats cost per unit shs 25.000.-
16 two bedroom nurses' flats cost per unit shs 49.000.-
30 two bedroom doctors' flats cost per unit shs 54,600,-
42 three bedroom doctors' flats cost per unit shs 65.600.-
They form the largest group of flats in anyone single
institution in Kenya. The architects were T.S.Nandhra and
Associates, Nairobi.
The Buildings Department of the Ministry being interested
in the reactions of the users to the accommodation provided
both from a sociological and environmental point of view,
the Chief Architect requested the HRDU to undertake this
survey. | en_US |
