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Nashon Okowa

Why we reject the national building code 2024 as it is

I fully support the idea of a new building code. It is embarrassing that 24 years into the 21st century we are still using a building code of 1968. Why has it taken us so long to do one?

By Nashon Okowa 4 months ago

Why we reject the national building code 2024 as it is

Plans to regularise city's unauthorised buildings timely

Plans to regularise city's unauthorised buildings timely

By Nashon Okowa 1 year ago

Why we won't do away with off-plan housing

Why we won't do away with off-plan housing

By Nashon Okowa 1 year ago

Why we must regulate real estate developers

Why we must regulate real estate developers

By Nashon Okowa 1 year ago

Our right to a working city is the most basic

A city's transformation hinges on its collective power to reshape things. At the moment, greed is reshaping Nairobi city, fanned by lacklustre leadership.

By Nashon Okowa 1 year ago

Our right to a working city is the most basic

Set up project management offices to track infrastructure development

If we are going to have a fair, honest shot at leaping out of our current state of development as country, we must centralise successful delivery of public projects.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

Set up project management offices to track infrastructure development

What to do for your real estate project to pay off

When the difference between a product and another is just price, it has been commoditised. The real estate sector is flooded with commoditised projects - projects conceived in bar and chama talks.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

What to do for your real estate project to pay off

Let's be wary of rising 'vigilante' resident groups

Just a week or so ago, a dominant discussion ensued after the Karen residents association stated that they will not allow inappropriate buildings in their neighbourhood.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

Let's be wary of rising 'vigilante' resident groups

For President Ruto's government it has to be housing, not ownership

The government, both national and devolved, must scale up the non-profit development of non-market housing on public/community-owned land

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

For President Ruto's government it has to be housing, not ownership

Letter to Sakaja: You need to start with city planning, waste problem

Like your predecessors, you have been handed the opportunity to be legendary. Nairobi City is in your hands; seize this historical moment in stride.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

Letter to Sakaja: You need to start with city planning, waste problem

Tedious construction approval process fuelling building collapses

Cheered on by a corrupt construction supervisory system that can be easily made to look the other way, they have become emboldened to break the set guidelines with unparalleled impunity.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

Tedious construction approval process fuelling building collapses

Hard hit construction industry must steel itself for worse times

In most contracts, there is no contractual remedy for the rising material costs due to the deletion of the fluctuation clause during the contract signing.

By Nashon Okowa 2 years ago

Hard hit construction industry must steel itself for worse times

To stop collapse of buildings, give NCA teeth to bite

The onus is on the construction industry statutory authorities to stop people from executing such projects.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

To stop collapse of buildings, give NCA teeth to bite

Let's speak boldly against real estate con games

Nearly all built environment professions have strong professional associations, yet they have constantly chosen silence whenever evil rears its head.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

Let's speak boldly against real estate con games

What Nakuru ‘city’ governor must do to make history

Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui deserves a pat on the back with the town on the brink of greatness.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

What Nakuru ‘city’ governor must do to make history

City expressway chaos could have been avoided

Government projects in Kenya, and largely in Africa, are synonymous with delays.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

City expressway chaos could have been avoided

Draft National Building Code requires new ideas to reflect the 21st-century environment rut of inertia

There is nothing much to hold a candle to; these have been regulations to preserve the status quo and/or massage dusty egos.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

Draft National Building Code requires new ideas to reflect the 21st-century environment rut of inertia

Why the diaspora must engage real estate experts

The frustrations our diaspora citizens have endured in construction and real estate industry are legendry and painful for a majority of them.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

Why the diaspora must engage real estate experts

Let all counties engage experts in construction

How does a teacher who wants to build a house in the village access a registered architect and engineer?

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

Let all counties engage experts in construction

Why real estate developers must step up integrity

There should be no substitute for honesty and integrity in the real estate industry.

By Nashon Okowa 3 years ago

Why real estate developers must step up integrity

How expressway city traffic mess can be avoided

Has anyone thought about the economic cost this is causing to the city?

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

How expressway city traffic mess can be avoided

Proposals on county projects are welcome

Now, let’s talk about proposals on county governments’ development projects spending.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Proposals on county projects are welcome

Rethink public projects to stem costly delays

The inability to complete projects on time and within budget continues to be a chronic problem worldwide and is worsening

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Rethink public projects to stem costly delays

Why we should urgently review our city planning

The uncontrolled developments route we have been on for some time now will be our detriment.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Why we should urgently review our city planning

Think of service charge when buying a house

Still, most buyers pay little consideration to what awaits them on the other end as monthly service charge when buying a house.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Think of service charge when buying a house

Build or buy? Why housing investors have to get it right

The recent unfortunate happenings in the real estate sector are inadvertently driving many people to consider building a house over buying one,

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Build or buy? Why housing investors have to get it right

Badi: Either fit in or change the city

It would be a travesty if I fail to remind you of just one of your predecessor’s sins; the human tongue is a ravaging beast that few can master.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Badi: Either fit in or change the city

New construction rules flawed, lack views of Kenyans

Truth is seldom pleasant. Yet we should faithfully commit attention to its pursuit lest it evades us.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

New construction rules flawed, lack views of Kenyans

Enough with these unscrupulous real estate developers

Families are steeped in finance debts while we canonise the purported fraudsters.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Enough with these unscrupulous real estate developers

Our nation’s moral fabric is in decadence; let’s fix it

Our behaviour during this pandemic has abandoned me to the incessant thought of this question; floundering for answers every time.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Our nation’s moral fabric is in decadence; let’s fix it

Cushion construction sector to save economy

The novel coronavirus has hit the construction industry at a worse time.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Cushion construction sector to save economy

Greed hurting investments in real estate

Yet majority consciously disregard this cardinal rule of investment and always jump into the real estate industry investment based on hearsay.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Greed hurting investments in real estate

End the deliberate confusion facing our Roads sector

Let us devolve most of the roads and maintain a lean road network under KeNHA

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

End the deliberate confusion facing our Roads sector

Persistent delay of construction approvals wrong

The theatrics at the helm of City Hall is akin to Shakespeare’s character Hamlet.

By Nashon Okowa 4 years ago

Persistent delay of construction approvals wrong

Why I disagree with BBI on increasing devolution funds

There is no doubt that devolution has had its share of success in the last seven or so years. It has also experienced myriad challenges.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Why I disagree with BBI on increasing devolution funds

Stem waste while building to boost real estate margins

We cannot get high real estate margins when we are stuck to medieval construction methods

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Stem waste while building to boost real estate margins

Why ignorance of finer details hurts lazy home buyers

Some home buyers ignorantly believe the defects liability period is counted from the date they possess the house

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Why ignorance of finer details hurts lazy home buyers

To optimise returns in real estate ensure project management

The speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedence; disrupting every industry on its course.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

To optimise returns in real estate ensure project management

Stop empty rhetoric and act on negligent building agencies

Building collapses in Kenya is well-documented in various task force reports gathering dust on shelves.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Stop empty rhetoric and act on negligent building agencies

Awarding contracts to lowest bidder is not always the best

The contractor would then be on the hunt for cheaper materials to substitute where he can get away with it.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Awarding contracts to lowest bidder is not always the best

One stop shop key for construction approval

There has been government rhetoric, for some time now, around formation of a one-stop shop for construction approvals.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

One stop shop key for construction approval

Property developers should disclose loans to buyers

What is happening in our property market? Why is it easy, or so it seems, for people to con or be conned.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Property developers should disclose loans to buyers

Streamline training of building contractors

The lumping up of contractors during training should cease forthwith.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Streamline training of building contractors

Off-plan property sales are good, just protect the buyers

The recent surge in negative sentiments towards off-plan house purchase is not new.

By Nashon Okowa 5 years ago

Off-plan property sales are good, just protect the buyers

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