Most building and land owners in cbd, westlands and upper hill areas usually have a better understanding of how construction works.
Its rare to see buildings in these areas being built without all relevant consultant inputs.
The Westlands building owner made his money selling mitumba so we can understand his background and why he would most likely try to pull the project kienyeji without proper consultancy.
The investment is a staggering kes 800m, a figure that can shake even the Warren Buffets of this world..
In CBD we are also witnessing many new buidings coming up kienyeji style especially along Koinange street area.
Now that more and more indigenous Kenyans are constructing in these prime locations, its the duty of NCC to fully enforce controls since we cant assume that the owners will foresee the need to uphold standards just by themselves.
The Ministry of Local Government should come up with enforcement methods e.g hiring more engineers, educating potential developers of dangers of kienyeji highrise construction, severe penalties to developers e.t.c
This lack of enforcement by Local Authority is what led to the Haiti catastrophe since most buildings were designed poorly hence a 7.0 Richter could wreck so much havoc while the same and higher Richter caused negligible damage in New Zealand and USA Loma Pieta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._Loma_Prieta_earthquake
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