Highrise Apartments and Flats, Juja, Kenya
Apartment buildings enable land owners to gain maximum utility from their land when land size is constrained.
Juja area has mostly 1/8th plot sided lands available for sale, on which buyers close to Thika road opt to construct high rise apartment flats.
This apartment at Juja was designed by a4architect.com
County Approval regulations.
Juja is located within Kiambu County. The Planning department allows for high rise apartments up to 5 floor levels in Juja area.
Ground coverage is set at 50 to 80%.
Juja Sub county planning offices are located in Thika town within the Ministry of Lands Thika building.
Building plan approvals for Kiambu sub county are done online at https://edams.kiambu.go.ke
Foundation.
The whole of Juja subcounty area has got very shallow soil, around 500mm maximum depth, with soft rock starting from there. This makes it an ideal location for machine cut stone quarry sites. Juja supplies Kenya with good quality machine cut stones. This shallowness of soil makes it a nightmare on enabling drainage for foul water in septic tanks. The foul water doesn’t have enough soil for it to drain from the septic tank into the soak pit, hence problems in sewerage.
Conservancy tanks.
Solution is to drill deep into the stone or construct a conservancy tank where sewerage is stored then occasionally taken out using lorries and dumped into county approved dump sites, which is a costly affair.
Differences between poly septic tanks and poly conservancy tanks
Conservancy tanks are constructed more stronger than septic tanks since they stay empty longer due to frequent emptying. Also, conservancy tanks are more airtight than septic tanks since the waste does not get treated.
Juja subcounty buildings tend to be more stable since the rock start is not deeply located, hence its safer to use less steel and less concrete on columns in the apartments.
JKUCAT
JKUCAT University , proximity to Thika road have provided the bulk of population that has necessitated for high rise buildings in Juja, with demand for tenancy/rental apartments quite high.
Architect Francis Gichuhi Kamau.
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