Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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Resource person. Workshop on Country Strategy Paper on the Water Supply and Sanitation Services
(Civil and Construction Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Response of cross-and tee-shaped concrete column sections to combined flexure and axial loading: technical paper
(2000)Most reinforced concrete columns are square or rectangular in shape. For such, comprehensive design charts and software are available to enable design for combined compression and uniaxial bending. The columns designed to ... -
Restructuring of Railway : Kenya Railways Experience "
(1996)Describes the Kenya Railways Corporation and its current records management practices. Summarizes the results of records management surveys and discusses problems of: records creation, including poor mail management, file ... -
Revenue Autonomy and Property Taxation in Anglophone East Africa:
(2012)This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ... -
Review Article On Urbanisation And Human Settlements Policy In Egypt In Regional Development
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
"A Review of Commercial Renewable Energy Initiatives in Kenya
(1999)The objective of this paper is to provide a summary overview of the African energy sector and briefly examine the nexus of poverty and energy in the region. While the paper uses continent-wide data, the emphasis is placed ... -
A review of current accessibility Legislation in Kenya
(1992)Excerpt) The aim of this paper is to review the current accessibility legislation on the built environment in Kenya and document the current situation in the light of persons with disabilities. The paper will briefly explain ... -
Review of Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Narobi, 2014-02)Solid waste management (SWM) is a major public health and environmental concern in urban areas of many developing countries. Nairobi’s solid waste situation, which could be taken to generally represent Kenya’s status, ... -
Review of municipal solid waste management: a case study of Nairobi, Kenya
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Review of soil water retention characteristic (SWRC) models between saturation and oven dryness
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Soil water retention characteristic is the key soil property used in many applications in the fields of irrigation, hydrology, geotechnical engineering and soil science in general. Since the advent of digital soil mapping ... -
A review of techniques in optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy systems
(2015)This paper presents a review of techniques usedin recent published works on optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy sources. Hybridization of renewable energy sources is an emergent promising trend born out of the need ... -
A Review of the Training Needs for Revenue enhancem ent for local Authorities in Kenya
(Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, University of Nairobi, 2009)n Kenya, discussions on property taxation are beco ming increasingly important within the local authority finances as more responsibiliti es are devolved to local government units. Property tax is the single most ... -
Riparian Zones and Their Role in Enhancing Resilience to Flooding in Urban Areas
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Resilience has been defined as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while maintaining the same function, structure and identity. In Nairobi river basin, storm water drains have been developed to ... -
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 ... -
Risk management and Construction procurement patterns in Construction projects in Kenya: The Way Forward
(Real Estate and Construction Management, University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Risk response in handling building materials on construction sites in Kenya
(2009)construction site up to the point of fixing them. Material handling represents a major portion of total costs and may account for 10-80% of total cost. Construction sites are exposed to various risks such as workmanship, ... -
River Pollution profile:
(1990)This paper reports the detailed results of a study of the impact of the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshop series on clients' perceptions of health services, relationships within the health centre and relations ... -
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, ... -
Robust geodetic parameter estimation under least squares through weighting on the basis of the mean square error
(1999)Four robust estimation techniques are evaluated in respect of their efficiency and effectivenes through the estimation of geodetic parameters within the framework of a geodetic network. A theoretical geodetic network in ...