Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Integrated landform mapping: methodology and application for digital soil mapping in Somalia
(2011)Natural Resource inventory of remote areas of So malia was one of the main goals of the FAO- SWALIM Project. Two study areas were chosen acco rding to the population density distribution and to the presence of agriculture ... -
Comparison of Participative Design Experience in UK and Kenya
(2007)An application of the concept of technological frames is presented as a way to understand the co-configuration of people, culture and technology. It shows how technological frames can be used to solve the problems that ... -
Approaches to informal settlement upgrading in East Africa
(2012)On nth July 201.2, the University of Nairobi, School of the Built Environment, in collaboration with partners organized a regional Conference to explore approaches and. share lessons on sustainable up-scaling of informal ... -
A proposal for the establishment of the Mombasa Islamic University
(2001)The earliest concrete evidence of Moslem presence in East Africa is the foundation of a mosque in Shanga on Pate Island where gold, silver and copper coins dated AD 830 were found during an excavation in the 1980's. The ... -
Land Development Options for Coastal Islands of Mombasa and Lamu
(2001)This paper discusses land-sourced pollution with an emphasis on domestic sewage in the Caribbean in relation to similar issues in the Indian Ocean and Pacific. Starting on a large-scale in the 1980s, tropical Atlantic ... -
Experience with developing and deploying an agricultural information system using spoken language technology in Kenya
(2008)We describe the progress of the Local Language Speech Technology Initiative in Kenya, where since starting in 2003, technology and expertise have been successfully transferred to the Kenyan partners, culminating in the ... -
Concrete Practices in Kenya
(2001)Towers are typical structures that can be found in many urban and rural landscapes the world over. From their basic design, they are usually exposed to severe environmental loads. It is therefore prudent to carry out ... -
Deflections of Lateritic Gravel and Stone Base Pavements of low volume Tea roads in Kenya.
(1991)Results are described from a testing program of a tea road on the slopes of the Aberdares where tea is the main cash crop. The 5.5-m-wide low-volume road has been carrying the equivalent of about 7,000 standard axles per ... -
Potential of Softwood and hardwood sawdust in removal of Congo Red dye from wastewater
(College of Architecture and Engineering, 2002)The potential for ground charcoal for synthetic dye removal was investigated in a series of batch experiments. Ground charcoal from black wattle tree was used to remove a synthetic dye, Congo red from water through sorption. ... -
Ammonia removal from an aqueous solution by the use of a natural zeolite
(College of Architecture and Engineering, 2004)A series of batch experiments were conducted to ascertain the ability of a natural zeolite (a crystalline aluminosilicate) to remove ammonia from synthetic wastewater samples composed of ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH). The ... -
Removal of colouration from Textile wastewaters
(College of Architecture and Engineering, 2002)This study investigated the effectiveness of three physical-chemical methods namely; pH adjustment, precipitation with alum and the use of polyelectrolytes. In the treatment of diary wastewater from Brookeside milk processing ... -
Treatment of Textile Wastewater(Synthetic Dye, Congo Red) using charcoal
(College of Architecture and Engineering, 2002)The potential for ground charcoal for synthetic dye removal was investigated in a series of batch experiments. Ground charcoal from black wattle tree was used to remove a synthetic dye, Congo red from water through sorption. ... -
B.N.K. Njoroge and J. K. Wairuri
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