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Awareness drive on new building code gathers pace

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Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice (third right) during the launch of the Training and Sensitization of The National Building Code 2024, on January 14, 2025, at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi. [James Wanzala, Standard]

The government has stepped up efforts to popularise the new building code aimed at ensuring safe, sustainable, and inclusive construction practices.

The National Building Code 2024 came into force last year, almost 57 years after the last code, which was established in 1968.

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