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Effect of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Strengthening on the Axial Capacity and Ductility of Non-slender Square Concrete Columns
(University of Nairobi, 2021)
This research investigated the effect of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP)
strengthening on the axial capacity and ductility of non-slender square concrete columns. There
is a problem of buildings collapsing in ...
Role of Pension Backed Mortgages in Affordable Housing in Kenya
(Africa Habitat Review, 2021-10-12)
Access to affordable housing is a challenge to many public sector employees who retire without a home despite
having worked and saved towards pension. One of the initiatives by the Government of Kenya (GOK) to increase
access ...
Co-Design:Tools, Methods and Techniques for Designing with Users
(Africa Habitat Review, 2021-10-12)
The field of co-design has grown exponentially in the last 20 years. This is evidenced by an increasing number of non-designers getting involved in design projects. The rationale for the engagement of non-designers in ...
The quality of an urban residential neighbourhood: a case study of Umoja I Estate, Nairobi
(2020-08-15)
Purpose of the study: The study examined the quality of an urban residential neighbourhood
in Umoja I Estate, Nairobi. Notably, the study sought to determine the indicators of quality in
an urban residential neighbourhood ...
Steering Energy Transitions through Landscape Governance: Case of Mathare Informal Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya
(MDPI, 2020-06-23)
Poor households in urban informal settlements face a big challenge in accessing clean energy
for cooking, heating, and lighting. We use Kenya’s Mathare informal settlement as a landscape site to
better understand how ...
Enhanced role of private sector through public private partnerships in low income urban housing in Kenya
(Emerald, 2020-06-06)
Purpose – Low income urban housing in Kenya is underdeveloped as a result of uninnovative financing, hence the many slums and informal settlements in the country, hence the need for enhanced participation of the private ...
Tenure-Infrastructure-Livelihoods (T-I-L) Nexus in Slum Upgrading: an emerging Paradigm
(Africa Habitat, 2020-12-23)
The world is progressively moving towards linked up approaches, reinvigorated by the current emphasis on indivisibility in the global goals on sustainable development. However, a lot more remains to be done to fully realise ...
Architecture for The Urban Poor A Case of a Participatory Slum Upgrading in Nairobi, Kenya
(Africa Habitat, 2020-08-02)
Architecture in its broad perspective denotes both a process and a product. In the formal built environment, there are distinct mechanisms for engaging with the two dimensions unlike with the informal where the mode of ...
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 ...
Towards adaptive standards for multi-purpose interior design in low-cost housing projects in Kenya
(Africa Habitat, 2020)
The Kibera Soweto East Housing Project was developed under the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP) whose main objective was to improve the housing conditions of the residents of Kibera through the construction of ...