Chaka wrote:a4architect.com wrote:@chaka, its not the kenyan engineers who designed the road. its an indian engineering consultancy firm.
For kenyan engineers to alter the design, the contract btn kenya and the indian engineers need to be altered.
@4Arch,
What you are saying is that for these kinds of projects the "client: i.e Kenya Government cannot make any recommendations before project rollout?
the client i.e Kenya is represented by ps ministry of roads. His office should have seen this and pointed out to the consultants to amend design but it looks like the design phase was not properly taken care of. The experience of the engineering consultancy should be able toiron out these issues. Looks like the vetting process for consultancy didnt get the best engineers. The indians maybe did not have experience with such projects. The chinese contractors, hovewer, did a perfect job .
The reason kenya was using international consultants is coz we dont have engineers with such experience so we cnt fault ps ministry of roads for not seeing this. We can fault the selection process since they should have given us engineers with previous experience on such roads.
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