Ask five people on a Kenyan construction site what a method statement is, and you will get five different answers. Some think it is a formality for the file. Others think it is the same as a risk assessment. Neither…
Every building has one box that decides whether power gets where it needs to go safely, or whether it becomes a hazard. That box is the distribution board. If you have ever looked inside one and felt lost by the…
Every construction site runs on information. If that information is not captured daily, it gets lost, and when a dispute, delay, or accident happens, the person who cannot produce a record is the person who carries the blame. A daily…
Walk onto any electrical fit-out site in Nairobi and you will find one drawing that decides how fast the team moves.. the electrical single-line diagram. The truth is, most site teams treat it as “the electrician’s drawing” and never learn…
If you have ever watched a quantity surveyor sit with a stack of architectural drawings and come out three days later with a document that determines the entire cost of a house, you have seen a Bill of Quantities being…
Every construction professional has stood over a drawing set and mixed up a section with an elevation at least once. It happens because the two drawings look related on paper but answer completely different questions. A section drawing cuts through…
