If you have ever stood on a road construction site in Kenya watching graders and tippers move mountains of soil, you have probably wondered how anyone knows exactly how many cubic meters are being cut or filled. The truth is,…
Every rainy season, undersized culverts wash out roads across Kenya. The truth is, most culvert failures are not a materials problem. They are a sizing problem that starts at the design desk, long before concrete gets poured. If you are…
Get an undersized culvert on a rural road and the first heavy rain will prove you wrong. Water backs up, the embankment saturates, and within one rainy season you are looking at a washed-out road and an expensive re-do. Culvert…
Most structural engineering students can calculate the required steel area for a beam. Fewer can actually detail it the way a fabricator or steel bender on site needs to see it. That gap is exactly why a good mentor tells…
Every road that crosses a stream, a seasonal watercourse, or a low point in the terrain needs a culvert. Get the size wrong and the consequences show up fast: floodwater backs up over the carriageway, the embankment scours out from…
If you have ever stood on site and watched a culvert overflow during the first heavy rain, you already know why sizing matters more than installing. A culvert that is too small backs up water, undermines the road formation, and…
Every rainy season, the same culverts fail. Water backs up, the road embankment saturates, and within a few storms the carriageway starts to slump. Most of the time the cause is not bad concrete or poor workmanship. It is a…
A poorly designed culvert will destroy a road. It is that simple. Whether you are working on a rural access road in Kenya or a major highway, the culvert is one of the most critical drainage elements on your project…
