Kenya Engineer

Kipevu III power GenerationThis was one of the facilities visited during the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) industrial Mombasa tour. The industrial tour was organized by the functions committee under the leadership of Eng. H J Nyaanga. The institution also visited English Point, TSavo power and finally Kenya Ferry Services .   The contract...

At the beginning of October Kenya Airways  took delivery of an additional Boeing 737-300 aircraft with the aim of satisfying the increasing new market demands. The aircraft, which has been leased from KLM, will be operating on t he regional routes .   CEO Titus Naikuni said the additional aircraft was in tune with the airline’s...

  Sexual offenders hoping to outsmart police by using a condom during their crimes may be out of luck thanks to a technique being developed at Sheffield Hallam University. The technique is claimed to provide proof of contact with a condom, placing someone accused of a sexual offence at the scene of the crime.   There...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank   (AfDB) meeting in Tunis early October last year agreed to finance the construction of a Cement factory in Rwanda. The project involves the construction of a 700,000 ton per annum cement plant   that will replace the existing 100,000 ton plant with the objective of making up for cement supply shortage ...

Several firms are expanding their facilities at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to meet the increasing freight handled by the airport. Officiating at the opening of Swissport’s Sh1 billion new cargo complex on November 8, Transport Minister Amos Kimunya said the Government will expand cargo facilities at all international airports to stimulate the export of agricultural products. “Cargo facilities...

  Vehicles that drive themselves along the motorway as part of large convoys are a step closer after the first successful test of the technology. The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, led by engineering consultancy Ricardo UK, showed that a single car equipped with the technology could follow a lead vehicle around the Volvo Proving Ground...

Work on a railway line linking Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)  and Nairobi’s central business district has started  as the government moves to ease congestion on roads. “The contractor is on site and the project should be completed in eight months .” said Transport  PS Cyrus Njiru. The Shs800 million project is part of a larger Shs14 billion programme...

The European Union has put up a Sh18 million water project for the endangered E-Molo community in the newly created Lonyangalani district, in Marsabit. The 1000-member community has been using saline waters of Lake Turkana, which has exposed them to water-borne diseases as well as bone and teeth deformation.   Commissioning the project early October the...

Researchers in the US have developed tiny liquid pistons that could be used in drug delivery devices or as low-energy camera lenses. The technology uses drops of liquid filled with metal nanoparticles (ferrofluid) that move back and forth in the presence of an electromagnet and can displace a surrounding liquid.   This motion can be used to pump...

  Oxford University researchers have reported transforming a non-superconducting material into a superconductor by using light. The team from Oxford, Germany and Japan are said to have observed conclusive signatures of superconductivity after hitting a non-superconductor with a strong burst of laser light.   ‘We have used light to turn a normal insulator into a superconductor,’...