Applewood, 10th Floor, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Applewood, 10th Floor, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Home construction · Nairobi
Mixed residential-commercial development, and renovation of an ageing but well-built housing stock.
Building in Westlands
New standalone homes are relatively rare in Westlands and Parklands, where most plots are either commercial or already built on. Where a house is the brief, it is usually a replacement on an existing plot.
Westlands is Nairobi's second commercial centre, and Parklands beside it holds some of the city's older residential building stock. The result is a genuinely mixed brief: office and retail fit-outs, apartment developments, and renovation of solid mid-century houses that are worth upgrading rather than replacing.
Renovation is unusually prominent here. Much of the Parklands stock was well built and sits on desirable plots, so the economics often favour reworking a structure — services, layout, finishes — rather than demolishing it.
Opening up a mid-century house to a modern open-plan layout means removing walls that may be carrying load. Before any layout is agreed we establish what is structural and what is not, and design the transfer — the alternative is discovering it during demolition, which is both dangerous and expensive.
Mixed-use and change-of-use proposals carry different approval requirements to straightforward residential work, and commercial premises bring fire and access obligations. We scope those at the outset so they shape the design rather than interrupting it.
How it works
We assess the plot — ground conditions, access, services and the approval context — before anything is drawn.
Architectural and structural design developed together, so the home you approve is the one that can be built to budget.
Drawings prepared and submitted to the relevant county authority.
A bill of quantities so you can see what each element costs before committing.
Built and supervised by qualified engineers against the specification.
Commissioning, snagging and handover with the documentation you need.
Get a quote
Project type, location and budget range are enough for a useful first reply.
Questions
It genuinely depends on the structure's condition and what you want from it. We assess the existing building and give you a comparison rather than a default answer — for a sound older house on a good plot, renovation frequently wins.
Yes. Commercial and mixed-use work sits within our building construction service, including the fire and accessibility requirements that come with commercial premises.
Yes — architectural and structural design, approvals, costing and construction all sit in-house, so there is one party accountable for the finished house rather than a chain of firms.
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