Month: October 2015
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Coffee House designs in Nairobi
Java Coffee House off Koinange street, Nairobi. Colour scheme is earth colours, which have a naturally calming effect, making visitors more relaxed hence more sales to the owners. The lighting is also not direct, hence giving the interior space a glowing ambiance which enhances comfortably. Furniture and walls have mahogany hardwood frames. The overall…
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Form-work and Scaffolding in Kenya.
Scaffolding is the structure that workers use for support as they work on high rise buildings. Some scaffolding types are made of aluminium, especially for light works where movable scaffolding is required, eg painting on ceilings. For heavy builders works, steel scaffolding is used. Hire or Buy. For shorter span…
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Types of Lifts for high rise buildings in Kenya.
Kenya has now started embracing high rise buildings, with floors aver 5 storeys. Such require that the developer install lifts to allow for easy access to the higher floors. Lifts travel at an average speed of between 1 to 5 m.s. A simple lift costs around kes 5million to supply and install anywhere around Kenya.…
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Documents needed to enable smooth sale of Property in Kenya
legal docs when selling a house Real Estate property can be in form of vacant land or built-up property. Vacant land. Vacant land ownership is documented in terms of title deeds. These can be leasehold or freehold. Leasehold titles have the 99 year lease from the Government of which a specific amount of money is…
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Joint Venture financing for Construction and Real Estate Projects in Kenya.
Joint Venture financing options are becoming more and more common in Kenya as time goes by. These are useful where the land owner can not raise the money to construct either through personal savings or through bank loans. Most banks require that the owner put in at least between 10 to 30% of the value…
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Modern Prefabricated Chicken House designs.
Modern Steel panel prefabricated houses for housing chicken are designed with several parameters in mind. weather control. The Steel prefabricated panels are well insulated with the polysterene sandwich infill, regulating the interior temperature from the external weather. Easy to clean. The walls and floor should be easy to clean, with a cement plastered floor working…
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Appreciation rate of Built Up Property vs Vacant Land in Kenya.
Real estate property comprises of vacant land or built up area within land. Both of these appreciate at different rates. Its important to know these rates to assist in which area between vacant land vs built up land to zero in on your real estate investment. Vacant land appreciation rate is different from built up…
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Office Partitions using Prefabricated Wall systems in Kenya.
Office partitions using prefabricated wall panels have several advantages. Sound insulation. Office partitions where sound insulation is of importance such as doctor consultation rooms, lawyer consultation rooms, operation theaters, lecture theaters for universities and colleges, steel sandwich insulated panels come in handy. Cost savings. Steel sandwich prefab panels are cost effective compared to other…
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Prefabricated Houses for Backyard Office use.
Steel prefab houses come in handy for use as backyard offices. They have advantage in terms of ease of getting County Planning department approvals since they are categorized as semi permanent structures, hence easy to obtain planning permissions to construct. In terms of lease agreement with the landlord for rented premises, they also would not…
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How to Reduce cost of construction in Kenya using Prefab Building.
The cost of construction in Kenya has steadily been on the rise due to various reasons as below. Cost of Labour. With the high cost of living, cost of labour has gone up . 10 yeas ago, a skilled labourer Fundi got paid kes 400 per day while an unskilled labourer mtu wa mkono got…