Month: October 2013
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Lifts and Elevators in Buildings.
Lifts are used to enable transportation between vertical floor levels in a building. There are various types such as Escalators. Dumb waiters. Passenger lifts Car/goods lift Wheel chair stir lift Escalators. These are mainly used to move form a few storeys, usually 1 to 3 storey levels. Most malls in Kenya have these. These are…
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Earthquake Preparedness in Kenya.
The Great Rift valley cuts accross Kenya. This region is seismically very active, with Volcanic mountains such as Suswa, Menengai and Mt Longonot. Oldonyo Lengai mountain, at the boarder of Kenya and Tanzania, erupted last in 2010. The Kenyan coast can also get affected by Tsunamis originating in Asia. Nairobi city falls within an earthquake…