Month: August 2010

SELECTING ROOFING MATERIAL FOR YOUR HOUSE IN KENYA There are various factors that determine which kind of roof to use for your house. CLIMATE In hot desert-like climates where rainfall is low, flat roofs are very common. Areas such as North-Africa have alot of these roofs. A flat roof is not eactly’flat’. It usually slopes…

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: AFRICA:THE SLEEPING GIANT IN THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WORLD As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Now that Globalisation is here with us, Africans will need to up their game in construction methodology to meet the current demand. Issues such as population explosion,urbanisation, limited supply of materials, cost…