Your Vision Brought to Life
Most construction problems do not announce themselves. They arrive quietly — a crack that appears eighteen months after handover, a roof that leaks in the second rainy season, a floor finish that starts lifting two years in. By the time the problem is vi ...
There is a moment on a construction project that every contractor and architect recognises. Work is underway, the foundation is done, walls are going up — and then someone realises the drawings do not show what happens at a particular junction, or that a ...
Drive through any Kenyan city. Look at the buildings. Not the handful of landmark projects. Not the buildings that get photographed and shared. The ordinary ones — the residential developments, the commercial blocks, the apartment buildings going up o ...
"Just give me a quote." I hear this more than almost anything else. A client calls, they have a piece of land, they have an idea of what they want to build, and they want a number. Not a conversation. Not a site visit. A number they can take away and ...
There is a conversation I have had more than once with clients that goes something like this. The project is underway. Materials are on site or on order. The team is mobilized. Then the funding stalls. It is never presented as a problem at first. It i ...
I had a client come to me two years ago with a budget he had built carefully. He had done his research — talked to contractors in Nairobi, gotten quotes, looked at cost-per-square-metre figures online. He was confident in his numbers. He wanted to build ...
A client came to me partway through their coastal build with a suggestion. They had found taps at a hardware store in Nairobi. Good brand, reasonable price, solid finish. They wanted to buy them directly and save the markup. It made sense to them — th ...
Drive through any Kenyan city and play a game. Count the buildings that look genuinely different from one another. Not different in colour or in the number of floors — different in the way they relate to the land they sit on, the climate around them, ...
A client called me eight months after moving into their new home in Kilifi. The taps were rusting. The shower fittings had turned brown. The door handles were corroding at the edges. The house was less than a year old. They had bought good quality ...