Diamond Plaza Multi-storey Building. Diamond Plaza building is a 17-story Mixed-use building in Parklands, Nairobi, with malls, restaurants, and offices. During its construction, there was a change of design proposal by the client. The design change entailed an additional five floors on top of the original building. Somers Engineering was engaged to re-design and retrofit […]
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After the completion of construction on a commercial building in Kampala Central business district, there was a need to provide vehicular access to the building from the city centre, across the Nakivubo channel. Therefore, to address this need, a bridge was designed to span over the 13-meter-wide drainage channel. Somers Engineering was appointed to design,
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Post tensioning is a method of prestressing concrete which employs use of high strength steel tendons, that are stressed after concrete placement. Post tensioning allows for the reduction in quantity of reinforcement, longer spans with fewer supports and thinner structural members, thereby reducing material quantities. Holy Family Basilica project is a 4-level basement parking silo
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Isinya Piling Project The project involved construction of a boundary wall of 2.4m high and 544m long, located in Isinya kajiado county where black cotton soil dominates the area. The conventional way of constructing the wall on strip footing was very expensive and piling was adopted.Columns were piled at 3m centers to the hard stratum
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Jaffery Academy – piling works Somers Engineering Ltd was appointed as the structural engineer for the above project. The two level Activity Hall sat on a plinth of 998m2. Due to presence of very poor soils i.e. a backfilled land consisting of waste material such as construction debris like cement bags and it is saturated
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Dar es salaam Port – Foundation Pile repair Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) commissioned berth expansion works at the Daresalaam port, this involved construction of new berths to allow docking of more Ships. As part of this project, Somers Engineering was appointed to carry out repair and rehabilitation works on the older berths that exhibited deterioration.
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News & Events Airside Pavements, Moi International Airport The existing Apron Slabs consisting of a total Area 41,808 SM , constructed 30 years back had 70% deterioration. Somers was subcontracted to repair and rehabilitate the identified areas. The works included full depth repair-full slab…READ MORE Cold Stores For Avocado Storage, Kakuzi Kenya Somers appointed Inspira
