Urbanization

Being an Architect

Posted by on October 24, 2012 at 8:00 am

“Being an architect isn’t only about construction, it’s about creating wide spaces with small spaces.” ― Yannick Heywang “Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” ― Charles F. Lummis “It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, [...]

Three Real Estate Investing lessons from the Accra Mall Project, Ghana

Posted by on May 26, 2012 at 5:38 pm

Greetings! We wish to draw here a few important lessons on investing from the sale of the Accra Mall in Ghana. Two South African companies have acquired 85 per cent shares in Ghana’s largest one-stop shopping centre, the Accra Mall. 1. Location “The development of the Accra Mall and its current location was the product of [...]

The Case for Building Regulations in Kenya, Uganda and Namibia

Posted by on April 23, 2012 at 5:24 pm

The second blog on this website was done on January 6th 2010  and it highlighted 10 flaws in the Kenyan Building Regulations as follows: Today, I am very happy that the Government of Kenya has enacted into law the The National Construction Authority Act, Number 41 of 2011 which is is set to streamline, overhaul and regulate [...]

A Brief History of Kenya’s Construction Industry

Posted by on February 29, 2012 at 8:15 am

by Barrack Obaga Background Information on Kenya The country known today as Kenya was created by European colonialism in Africa, which lasted from the mid-1800s to the 1960s. Kenya was a British protectorate from 1895 to 1920 and a colony from 1920 to 1963. The Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC) was the administrator of Kenya and [...]