There was a good attendance of consulting engineers at the Association of Consulting Engineers of Kenya Annual General Meeting held at Nairobi Club on 74 June 2004.
In an initiative towards the rehabilitation of Nairobi Dam, a Friends of Nairobi Dam association was established in March 2003 to oversee the fonnulation and implementation of the Environmental Management Plan for the dam.
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Generally in English law, a contract is formed when parties reach an agreement on its terms and conditions. This could be done in writing, by word of mouth, or partly in writing and partly by word of mouth and sometimes implied from the conduct of the parties.
Radio is the most versatile of the telecommunication transmission media and for many applications such as aviation and shipping, it is the only choice. The radio Spectrum is an important national resource, which is in increasing demand by many kinds of users.
It supports an enormous range of services and applications, and is increasingly important to business efficiency, international competitiveness and for services we all take for granted.
The labour-based approach to road works has made a good start in Kenya. Indigenous contractors rehabilitate and maintain the road network throughout the country. But, we are continually faced with scepticism from many engineers, and also lay people for that matter! Asfaw Kidanu, the Sida Programme Advisor who has been in the business for over a decade and who had followed the labour-based programme in Kenya over as many years gives his views in the feature below.
This year’s General Assembly of FAOE was held at the Hotel InterContinental, Nairobi to coincide with the Institution of Engineers of Kenya Annual Conference and dinner/dance.
In the feature below Eng J N Kariuki points out that the Telecomminications market will always require special legislative attention and can never be entirely left to the operation of the market and general legal provisions
In the feature below Eng J N Kariuki points out that the Telecomminications market will always require special legislative attention and can never be entirely left to the operation of the market and general legal provisions
Electricity utilities measure, monitor, benchmark and evaluate their power quality using quantifiable data like, frequency of supply interruptions, number of incidences of anomalies/failures, duration of interruptions, etc.
In the paper below Dr Paul Wambua presents some applications of composite materials and stresses the importance of developing a composite industry in Kenya
Of late there has been a paradigm shift from emphasis on only functionality of the passenger car to emphasis on agility, dexterity, fuel economy, comfort and safety.
Of late there has been a paradigm shift from emphasis on only functionality of the passenger car to emphasis on agility, dexterity, fuel economy, comfort and safety.
Eng Sam Mambo presented a paper on this topic at a recent GAMA conference in Botswana in which he explained how engineering services play a pivotal role in our everyday lives and it is essential that the engineering industry is regulated to ensure that the services offered are of the highest possible standards. Extracts from his paper are reproduced below.
Eng Sam Mambo presented a paper on this topic at a recent GAMA conference in Botswana in which he explained how engineering services play a pivotal role in our everyday lives and it is essential that the engineering industry is regulated to ensure that the services offered are of the highest possible standards. Extracts from his paper are reproduced below.
Kenya-Uganda Rail service concessionaire Rift Valley Railways (RVR) has moved a notch higher in its ongoing corporate efficiency enhancement process with the unveiling of a Kshs 114 million Information Technology framework.
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