Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Design Criteria Considerations of Pedestrian Crossings: The Case of a Major Arterial in Nairobi
(2001)raffic congestion is reaching intolerable levels in many metropolitan areas in both developed and developing countries. New building developments are considered one of the major causes of congestion-re ... -
Household Travel and Activity Diary: An East African Experience in Transport Survey Methodology
(2004)Public and non-motorised transport facilities in urban centres in Africa are less than what is justified by the demand. This may be due to the way the urban transportation problem has been formulated and travel surveys ... -
An Energy Use Model for a Secondary City in a Developing Country.
(2004)This paper identifies mechanisms whereby urbanization affects energy consumption. Industrialization and urbanization accompany each other during economic development, but urbanization exerts a number of independent influences ... -
Accessibility Modelling for a Developing Economy: The Case of Inter-regional Traffic Flows in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
(2004)Attention to participatory watershed management is increasing across the developing world as soil erosion continues to degrade agricultural land; reservoirs and irrigation infrastructure are clogged with sediment. The ... -
Water and Sanitation Services in Low Income Areas of Nairobi
(1994)This paper provides an overview of the state of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) by local authorities in Kenya as a case study of a low-income developing country. Approaches of possible solutions that can be undertaken ... -
Development of Parametric Numbers in Filter-bed Flocculation
(2002)This paper reviews the various geometric and hydrodynamic representations of flow in granular beds and proposes a model for prediction of the parameters that are pertinent in flocculation process in a filter bed – the ... -
Computer Simulation of Orthokinetic Flocculation in a Filterbed
(2004)The rational for application of direct filtration in water treatment with omission of the conventional coagulation processes has been a subject of discussion since the inception of direct filters. Among the questions asked ... -
Performance of Crushed Coconut Shell Dual Media Filter Paper.
(2004)The high cost of conventional building materials is a major factor affecting housing delivery in Nigeria. This has necessitated research into alternative materials of construction. This paper presents the results of an ... -
Human Resources Development for the Water Sector in the Next Decade
(1990)Globalisation is not a single phenomena, and it has become a catch-all concept to describe a range of trends and forces that impact our environment in many ways. Economic globalisation, under the aegis of the so called ... -
Understanding Family Planning, Facts and Misconceptions
(1992)The greatest number of barriers to the effective use of contraception was seen among non-US-born Hispanic women. Fewer differences emerged between US-born Hispanics and whites, although differences continued to exist between ... -
The Community Participatory AIDS Murals
(2001)Objectives To show how providing cameras to patients and community residents can be effective at involving the public in generating understanding of consumer, community, and health system problems and strengths. Background ... -
Towards a rainwater model village
(2004)Poor availability of water and pastures has been identified as the single most important factor constraining productivity of livestock in Tanzania. Many smallholder livestock keepers have responded to the problem of shortage ... -
Impacts of Rain Water Harvesting in Kusa
(2005)Annual seasonal droughts of 2-4 months occur in Kusa limiting access of households to safe drinking water. This compounds the health and socio-economic disasters through increased water borne diseases rated at 10% morbidity ... -
Using roof-storage rainwater systems as a coping strategy on drought related disasters
(2006)Annual seasonal droughts of 2-4 months occur in Kusa limiting access of households to safe drinking water. This compounds the health and socio-economic disasters through increased water borne diseases rated at 10% morbidity ... -
Integrated water, energy and sanitation solution for stand alone settlements
(2005)Lake Victoria basin has a large rural and rapidly growing peri-urban population that lacks sustainable solutions to safe and adequate water supply, energy and sanitation. Access to safe water and sanitation was 60% and ... -
How reliable are cylinder infiltrometers in determining the infiltration characteristic of a soil?
(1994)A number of methods are discussed for obtaining a reasonable estimate of the infiltration function for irrigation borders. Data from ring infiltrometers are fit to power functions for infiltration rate and cumulative ... -
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 ... -
Estimation of Infiltration Parameters at the Steepland Research Station, Kabete, Nairobi, Kenya
(1997)This study proposes a method for the estimation of lag time of forested mountainous watersheds. Hydrological flood-flow design methods require a time parameter, such as lag time or time of concentration, to estimate peak ... -
Design of an optimal size Rainwater Storage Tank
(1999)Melbourne is facing a severe drought having its 12th consecutive below average rainfall year. Water authorities have been forced to impose rigorous water restrictions including voluntary per capita water use targets after ... -
A computer based tool for determination of optimal size rainwater storage tank
(2000)Rainwater tanks have become popular in large Australian cities due to water shortage and greater public awareness towards sustainable urban development. Rainwater harvesting in multi-unit buildings in Australia is less ...