ArdhiSasa Goes National: What Fully Digital Land Transactions Mean for Builders
For decades, buying land in Kenya has been a gamble. You paid a lawyer to conduct a search. You waited days, sometimes weeks, for a file to be retrieved from a registry. You prayed the file had not been lost, altered, or stolen. You handed over millions of shillings hoping the title was genuine. That […]
The NCA Crackdown: Thousands of Contractors Face De-Registration Over Unpaid Fees
For years, the NCA register has quietly swelled with names of contractors who paid their fees once, maybe twice, then simply… stopped. They continued operating. They continued bidding. They continued building. The regulator looked the other way. That era is ending. In a public notice issued on January 27, 2026, the National Construction Authority (NCA) […]
The Sh175 Billion Fuel Levy: How Securitisation Resurrected 580 Road Projects
For years, a familiar sight across Kenya told a quiet story of broken promises. Rusting graders sat idle beside half‑finished bridges. Roads that should have linked markets were abandoned mid‑way. Contractors had simply downed tools and walked away. The cause was not a shortage of skilled labour or a lack of technical know‑how. It was […]
Why Demolition Sites Are Killing Workers: A Safety Crisis Ignored
Another building collapses. Another worker dies. Another investigation promises answers that never come. On April 9, 2026, at least three people were killed when a demolition site collapsed in Nairobi’s South C area . The building, which was being torn down, gave way suddenly. Workers were buried under debris before they could escape. Just weeks […]
MycoTile: Turning Maize Cobs and Coffee Husks into Building Materials
Picture this: a sack full of sugarcane bagasse, the fibrous waste left behind after juice extraction. On its own, it is just agricultural trash. But when you introduce oyster mushroom mycelium—the root‑like network of fungi—something remarkable happens. The mycelium bonds the loose fibres into a dense, stable panel. That panel can insulate a wall, line […]
The 75/25 Revolution: Inside Kenya’s New Construction Apprenticeship Model
For years, the story of Kenya’s construction workforce has been a frustrating contradiction. Cranes dot the Nairobi skyline. New housing projects break ground weekly. The sector is valued at over Sh2 trillion. Yet when contractors need skilled workers—plumbers, electricians, masons, painters—they struggle to find them. At the same time, nearly one million young Kenyans enter […]
East Africa’s First Industrial REIT: What Contractors Need to Know
For years, when investors wanted to put money into Kenyan real estate, they had two choices. Buy a building outright. Or buy shares in a listed company that happened to own property. Neither option was designed specifically for real estate. Neither offered the combination of predictable income, professional management, and liquidity that property investors in […]
The Sh5 Billion Diaspora Pipeline: Why Kenyans Abroad Are Driving Property Demand
For years, the money sent home by Kenyans abroad has been one of the country’s most stable sources of foreign currency. It has paid school fees, covered medical bills, and kept households afloat during economic downturns. But something changed recently. The money is no longer just for survival. It is increasingly for investment. And the […]
The Colonial Code That Still Rules Kenya’s Building Sites
On almost a daily scale, somewhere in Kenya especially the capital… Nairobi, an engineer opens a set of architectural drawings for a thirty‑storey tower. Glass curtain walls. Post‑tensioned concrete slabs. Deep basement excavations that go four levels down. High‑speed lifts. Complex fire suppression systems. Smart building controls. Then that same engineer turns to the building […]
EPS Panels: The Sh90 Million Lecture Hall That Could Redefine Kenyan Public Works
Kenyan construction has meant one thing for many years: cement, sand, ballast, and steel. Brick by brick. Block by block. It is a familiar rhythm. But it is slow, labour‑intensive, and increasingly expensive. What if there was another way? The National Housing Corporation (NHC) has signed an agreement to build an ultramodern lecture hall complex […]