Faculty of Engineering and The Built Environment: Recent submissions

  • The Role of Training Institutions in Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Kenya 
    Wayumba, Gordon (2015-05-19)
    Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of a country. In Kenya, land issues are emotive and have dominated the debate since independence in 1963. Indeed, the struggle for independence from the ...
  • Influence of House Form on Dweller-Initiated Transformations in Urban Housing 
    Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)
    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 ...
  • Housing strategies in Kenyan towns and dweller-initiated transformations-Case estates from Nairobi 
    Makachia, Peter (Association of civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, archtects and town planers, 2011-12)
    Housing demand in Nairobi city has exceeded her rapid population growth culminating in shortage, contributory to informal settlements, and now increasingly attributed to dweller-initiated transformation in formal housing. ...
  • Design strategy and informal transformations in urban housing 
    Makachia, Peter (Springer, 2011-06-09)
    Dweller-initiated transformations are mostly chided for their apparent locational spontaneity that is often at variance with functional and aesthetic objectives in formal housing design. This presumes speculator-driven ...
  • A cost modelling design strategy for Dweller- initiated transformations in urban housing 
    Makachia, Peter (Construction industry development, 2005-10-11)
  • A Historical Review of Land Tenure Reforms in Kenya 
    Wayumba, Gordon (2015-01)
    Land Tenure is a collection of relationships which exist between members of a society by virtue of their occupation and use of land [Ezigbalike and Benwell, 1995]. These relationships are dynamic and change with cultural ...
  • Control of Energy in Offices in Nairobi 
    Makachia, Peter (Nairobi University, 2009)
    Heavily glazed office buildings in the Kenyan Capital City Nairobi, common in recent times does not augur well for a micro and macro architectural environment. This has a consequent negative impact on energy use in ...
  • The Structure of Cadastral System in Kenya 
    Wayumba, Gordon (Journal of Land Administration in Eastern Africa, 2013-01)
    The cadastral system2 in Kenya was established in 1903 to cater for land alienation for the white settlers. Since then, a hundred years later, the structure of the system has remained more or less the same despite major ...
  • The pastoralist’s parcel: towards better land tenure recognition and climate change response in Kenya’s dry lands 
    Wayumba, Gordon (2013-05-06)
    Conventional notions of the ‘land parcel’ have been extended: previously unrecognized tenures including customary, nomadic, or communal interests are now incorporated into the concept. Technical tools including the Social ...
  • Control of Energy in Offices in Nairobi 
    Makachia, Peter (Nairobi University, 2012)
    Heavily glazed office buildings in the Kenyan Capital City Nairobi, common in recent times does not augur well for a micro and macro architectural environment. This has a consequent negative impact on energy use in ...
  • Accuracy Assessment Of Preliminary Index Diagrams (PIDS) From High Resolution Orthoimages In Kenya 
    Wayumba, Gordon (International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Studies, 2015-01)
    Abstract: In Kenya, various types of cadastral maps are in use for land administration; the most famous being Registry Index Maps (RIMs) used in the rural areas due to their ease of production by simple surveying techniques ...
  • Mapping sugarcane biomass using remote sensing 
    Wayumba, Gordon (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009)
    Monitoring biophysical features of sugarcane to estimate productivity of growing cane using groundbased crop cut techniques require immense time and equipment. Crop biophysical parameters from representative Mumias Nucleus ...
  • City Culture and society 
    Makachia, Peter (URP, 2011-12-04)
    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 ...
  • Architecture and planning under different political systems 
    Makachia, Peter (ARC, 2014)
    This book was initiated at the beginning of 2013 by Sven Thiberg, the co-founder and former chairman of ARC•PEACE (International Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Respons - ibility). He then submitted an application ...

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