Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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Planning in multicultural urban communities: the Eastleigh North case
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 2008)Aside from the characteristic urban pattern of high, middle, and low-income areas, Nairobi's postcolonial landscape is also layered by localities with predominant ethnic communities. With over fifty ethnic communities ... -
Planning options for housing an ageing population in Nairobi. A case study of Kibera division
(University of NairobiDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, 2002)This is a research study on the planning options for housing the ageing population in Kibera Division of Nairobi. The "graying" population as they are referred to, is a phenomenon that has received little attention from ... -
Planning problems facing small urban centres 'a case study of Limuru town, Kenya
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 1980)The study examines the development problems facing small urban centres with view of identifying the critical problems that hinder spatial development. The study further analyses the factors that constitute constraints ... -
Policy and Planning Implications for Temporary Settlements Hosting Internally Displaced Persons ( IDPs) In Kenya: A Case Study of Afraha Stadium IDP Camp
(University of NairobiSchool of the Built Environment Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 2008)Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are increasing becoming a challenge to Kenya. Whether displaced by conflict, disaster or development initiatives, the IDP population is often left to grapple with no basic needs and ... -
Policy impacts on urban land use patterns in Nairobi Kenya: 1899-1979
(1980)In the twentieth century; three basic models of city structure have been accepted by scholars as being representative of land use patterns in most cities of the western world. These models are (1) the Concentric Zone ... -
Policy implications of land subdivision in settlement areas: a case study of Lumakanda settlement scheme
(University of NairobiDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, 2003)The significance of land is that it constitutes the most important economic, cultural and political issues in Kenya today. It was true when Kenya became a colony dominated by European settlers. It remained true through ... -
Political biography of Ronald Gideon Ngala
(Faculty of Arts, 1990-05)This is a biographical study of Ronald Gideon Ngala, who became a prominent leader in Kenya He was born in 1922 at Gotani, in present day Kilifi District. He attended his primary and secondary schools at Kaloleni ... -
Pollutional effect of brewery waste water on Ruiruaka river
(Department of environmental and biosystems engineering, 1992)The rapid rate of industrial and urban growth in Kenya with the resultant pollution of aquatic systems provided stimulus to the present study on the pollutional effects of brewery effluent on Ruiruaka river.The river, ... -
Population pressure as a factor of rural development in Hamisi District Kakamega District
(University of Nairobi, 1980-11)Human population in terms of size, composition, distribution, components of growth and other characteristics provide a basic framework for estimating various categories of social, economic and physical planning needs and ... -
Postgraduate Hostel, Nairobi
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Potential Environmental and Socio-economic Effects of Geothermal Exploitation on the Local Community: a Case of Suswa Geothermal Plant
(University of Nairobi, 2020)This study sought to assess the potential environmental and socio-economic effects of geothermal exploitation on the local community in Suswa that primarily encompasses pastoralists who practice a nomadic lifestyle and ... -
Potential for ground charcoal for synthetic dye removal
(Department of Civil & Construction Engineering, University of Nairobi,, 2003)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 ... -
The Potential of Generative Design in Standardization of Interior Components for Production of Affordable Housing Units.
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The focus of this research is on the potential of the generative design in the standardization of interior components in the building of Affordable Housing programme (AHP) by the jua kali sectors in Kenya.Generative ... -
Potential of Waste Heat recovery from a Boiler Stack Economizer
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)Sharply increasing cost of oil across the globe has resulted in initiation of energy efficiency strategies in manufacturing and commercial industry so as to reduce the cost of producing goods and services and in Kenya ... -
The potential of Zeolitic Volcanic Tuff to remove manganese and iron from water.
(Civil Engineering, 2004)The study investigated the potential of zeolitic volcanic tuff (chokaa) to remove iron and manganese from water. A series of batch experiments were conducted to ascertain this potential. Iron removal was favoured by small ... -
Potentiality of Reliable Public Transport in reducing Traffic Congestion in upcoming Dense Neighbourhoods: A Case of Kilimani.
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Power flow and contingency analysis: case of Rwanda High Voltage Power System
(2015)This thesis uses power flow and contingency analysis to investigate operating conditions of Rwanda High Voltage Power System and evaluate the impact of branch outage on its operational status. We utilize contingency analysis ... -
Power series distribution sand zero-inflated models
(University of Nairobi, 2014)There are two main objectives in this project. First, to construct Power Series Distributions and obtain their properties. Specically, to express the Power Series Distributions in explicit form, in recursive form (in ... -
Pozzolanic Potentials of Fresh Cow Dung and Cow Dung Ash for Gravel Roads Construction
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Among third-world countries, gravel and earth roads form an excessively large portion of the road network when compared to paved roads. In Kenya, earth roads comprise about 47% of the road network, gravel roads 38% and ... -
Pre-Mining Concentrations Of Heavy Metal Elements and Radioactivity Concentrations Of Primordial Radionuclides in Soils Around the Niobium Mining Site in Kwale County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)An elemental analyses and radiological survey of soils around proposed Nb and rare earth mining site in Mrima Hill, Coastal Kenya, was conducted with an aim of providing the status of elemental and radionuclides concentrations. ...