Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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Sugarcane waste ash; composition, particle size distribution and pozzolanic properties
(Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2011) -
Suitability of the Kipwen River basin soils with respect to earthdam construction.
(Civil and Construction Engineering Building, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
Sulfide Toxicity in Anaerobic Systems Fed Sulfate and Various Organics.
(1993)Upflow anaerobic filters fed acetate and propionate, and completely mixed, suspended growth reactors fed acetate, propionate, lactate, and glucose were used to investigate the effect of electron donor and reactor type on ... -
Supportive design model: an approach to promote wellness of pychiatric patients. Case study: Mathari National Hospital, Nairobi County, Kenya.
(2018-08)The study is an investigation of supportive design model: an approach to promote wellness of psychiatric patients in Mathari National Hospital. The interior design of a space and its exterior environment has tremendous ... -
Surface runoff prediction on Kenyan catchments using the Green-Ampt model and related soil parameters
(1995)The need for more agricultural areas stemming from population pressure has been contributing to the increased forest and grassland-to-agricultural areas conversion in recent years in the upper Mara River Basin, Kenya. The ... -
The surveying profession beyond the Year 2000 and the Kenyan surveyor.
(2000)An overview of geospatial information education and its development in Kenya in general and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in particular is given. The gradual evolution and conception, ... -
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 ... -
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualisation of urban development.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Sustainability of Research and Development:
(2009)We share our experience on how to establish sustain able research and development based on successful collaborative research between the Local Language Speech Technology Initiative of UK and Kenyan partner - Teknobyte ... -
Sustainability prospects for water utilities privatization in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006)Privatization of water utilities is widely practiced in the belief that market forces may help achieve conservation as per the Dublin Principles (Fourth Principle). Kenya has adopted the privatization strategy with the ... -
Sustainable construction assessment, land-use planning, and Architectural Education
(Africa Habitat Review, 2022-09)The centrality of the construction industry in the sustainability agenda is undoubted. This is in context of its known economic, environmental and social impacts and numerous forward and backward linkages with other ... -
Sustainable construction literacy: a study of the Kenyan interior design market segment of the construction
(Africa Habitat, 2020-12-23)Due to the widespread calls for the construction industry to adopt sustainable approaches, the various stakeholders are now engaging in the sustainability agenda more than before. This study investigated how the Kenyan ... -
Sustainable Development Planning In Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Sustainable Materials and Construction Technology
(Depatment of Architecture, University of Nairobi, 2006) -
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 ... -
Sustainable urban communities: challenges and opportunities in Kenya’s urban sector
(University of Nairobi, 2011-04)During the last forty years, the economic and demographic structure of Kenya has become increasingly urban. In the 1980s the urban population in the country grew at over 6.5 percent a year, more than double the rate for ... -
Syllabus and regulations for diploma in Civil Engineering, Technical Education Programme Kenya Institute of Education, Nairobi.
(Civil and Construction Engineering Building, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Symmetry And Asymmetrical Forms In Traditional African Architecture
(Arts and Design, University of Nairobi, 1994) -
System Overflow/Blocking Transients For Queues with Batch Arrivals Using a Family of Polynomials Resembling Chebyshev Polynomials
(2009)The paper shows that in the analysis of a queuing system with fixed-size batch arrivals, there emerges a set of polynomials which are a generalization of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. The paper uses these ...