This engineer is old school and for whatever reason fears calling a spade a spade. He needed to say the truth: Stinking Corruption, laziness, shortcuts, incompetence and greed in county governments, NCA, NEMA etc and whoever else is involved in the construction industry through to the developers and the fundis on site. You can take this to the bank. Buildings will continue to collapse in Kenya until those involved are ready to sit down and decide that enough is enough. For now, everyone is just paying lip service. Endeleeni kuungua.

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So basically corruption is the problem.

Nice insights by Eng.Wambulwa

Impunity and corruption is a major cause of these buildings collapsing, this was a nice one

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Good job guys- in my opinion if can solve- Corruption- everything else will align itself....kitu kidogo is the problem- until

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Great conversation.

Very well explained Eng.

The blocks mined at some of local quarry do not have enough compresive force to support the building

Our society is structurally deficient and until it under goes a Rwandan Phoenix rebirth we can't rise above mediocrity.

Very Enlightening

Engineer Patrick is very right. Enforcement officers these days are not professional.

Those county officials are bribed by the owners. In the Ruiru issue they bribed KSH 100kabd those who didn't have the money were given 2 weeks to come up with the money. For them the construction can't continue,but those who gave the money can continue building. The officials thinks more of their tummies than safety of the people. Shame!!!

It however boils down to the client and his consultants Thus the architect and structural engineer

Very enlightening discussion. The rot really runs deep but the solutions are within our reach

Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear

The Engineer said that the right quantity of materials used should be considered, e.g When you suppose to use Bush stones at the foundation, the developer used machine Cut in the foundation

Engineer, Maybe the person asking you for the design also has a brother or relative (unqualified academically) that he would like to be his supervisor. My suggestion is LSTK collaboration under one roof.

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The County Government charges for site visits and inspection at the submission stage However this is not done and any site visits are not don6 by competent personnel

We still had buildings collapse under municipalities. Typical Kenyan style, unless one facilitated them they will take forever to get to a site. And where bribed them they will stamp documents in their offices. The building inspection thing should be privatized and competent individuals licensed to do it. They will the make detailed reports on inspections conducted.

A building coming up at yaya without approvals

But Engineer, Kenya sometimes isn't serious about developing punitive legislation. Why can't the government revoke all professional's licenses? This way, everyone will care about their reputation. In Athletics its called a ban for doping!

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Good afternoon Spice FM. I wish to thank Engineer Patrick who came to your interview. I am in the construction. The engineer scratched the surface of the problem. He is not bold enough to tell you bitter truth. Kindly reach out to me, i will tell you shocking information.

But Nairobi County inherited all engineers in municipal government, does it mean they sit their offices with out going in field for inspections.

On 26:46, the engineer had it wrong, every time a project is registered with NCA, the engineer, and the architects are notified.

Engineer couldn't just use exact words and say: clearance certificates are bought in usual corrupt way, why is he sugar coating this mayhem in engineering practice in Kenya!