Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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A Cost Modeling Design Strategy For Dweller-Initiated Transformation In Urban Housing
(2005)In her century of existence, Nairobi has served as a laboratory of various housing strategies targeting the indigenous Africans and the poor. Discriminated based on racial segregation during colonisation, the poor have ... -
Influence Of House Form On Dweller-Initiated Transformations In Urban Housing
(2006)Dweller-initiated transformations in housing are grudgingly being recognized as an alternative mode of producing dwellings in cities, particularly in the developing world. However, the environments generated are often ... -
Developer profits undermine residents’ satisfaction in Nairobi's residential neighbourhood: implications for local government in Kenya
(2003)This paper deals with the planning, delivery and implementation of a middle class housing scheme in Nairobi, focusing on the process of private sector residential area development. The paper analyses the planning aspects ... -
Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Kikuyu Religious Space
(2005)From the Christian theological perspective, inculturation is understood to be the process whereby the faith already embodied in one culture encounters another culture. In this encounter, the faith becomes part and parcel ... -
Transformation of Art and Architecture of Maasai.
(2006)Historically, it has been observed that people's settlements tend to change with their changing cultural values. Societies in early and rapid transition offer rich laboratories for the testing of this observation. The ... -
Microwave Route Surveying using Differential GPS
(2007)Advancements in global positioning system (GPS) technology now make GPS route choice data collection for travel diary studies and other transportation applications a reality. Opportunities abound for increased quantities ... -
Urbanization Process and the Spread of STDs, HIV and AIDS in Africa
(2003)It is well known that levels of HIV prevalence tend to be appreciably higher inurban areas. This article considers the reasons for this and shows that within world regions that are relatively homogeneous with respect to ... -
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, ... -
A three dimensional adjustment model for small scale survey networks.
(1995)A large-scale investigation of fracture flow was recently conducted in a granite uranium mine at Fanay-Augères, France. Its aim was to develop a methodology for the investigation of possible nuclear waste repository sites ... -
A model for a four-dimensional regional geodetic reference datum
(1997)A model for the establishment of a four-dimensional regional geodetic reference datum is presented. Starting from the three-dimensional integrated geodetic network model, formulations for the establishment of a four-dimensional ... -
The Kenya geodetic reference system project.
(1997)Preparation of a series of cadastral maps and distribution of the land ownership certificates to each landowner of the whole kingdom of Nepal has been completed recently. However, half of the cadastral mapping of the ... -
A three dimensional geodetic network model for the analysis of localised earth deformation.
(1997)Mathematical models, within the framework of integrated geodetic networks, for localised threedimensional geodetic monitoring networks are presented. The formulation of the mathematical models is based on the kinematic ... -
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, ... -
Establishing teaching staff requirements for university academic programmes
(1999)Describes a computational method used to predict faculty needs and distribution at the University of Nairobi (Kenya). The model is a function of the number of students taught, the hours taught, the manner in which students ... -
An evaluation of some robust estimation techniques in the estimation of geodetic parameters.
(1999)In Part 1 of this study, we reported on an evaluation of the performances of four robust estimation techniques, namely: the modified residuals technique, the modified weights technique, the modified residuals-weights ... -
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 ... -
Financing public universities in Kenya: a model based on rationalised student unit costs and staffing
(2001)Whitehead (1967:4) defines the term “Education is t he acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge.” The universities are those institutions that teach learners the art of the utilization of knowle dge. For ... -
A model for estimating student unit cost and staffing requirements for university programmes with reference to Kenyan public universities.
(2001)A model for the estimation of student unit costs and the staffing requirements for university academic programmes is presented. The development of the model starts off with the specification of a staff distribution matrix, ... -
Transformation between GPS coordinates and local plane UTM coordinates using the Excel spreadsheet.
(2002)A procedure for obtaining plane UTM grid coordinates from GPS coordinates based on WGS84 reference system by use of Excel spreadsheet is outlined The geographical coordinates obtained from GPS observations are transfornted ... -
A static dynamic model for densification of geodetic networks.
(1993)n the tradition of several joint papers by the honoree and myself, including E. Grafarend and B. Schaffrin (1974, 1976, 1988) and E. Grafarend, B. Schaffrin, and E. Knickmeyer (1982), I took up the subject again in ...