Turnkey Delivery · Kenya
Turnkey Construction Services
Design, approvals documentation, costing, procurement, construction and handover under a single appointment — so there is one programme, one budget and one party answerable for the result.
- Service lines under one contract
- 7
- Incorporated in Kenya
- Est. 2017
- Combined team experience
- 10+ yrs
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Why turnkey
The coordination is the work nobody prices
Appointing an architect, an engineer, a quantity surveyor and a contractor separately looks like it gives you control. In practice it gives you four programmes that do not align, four scopes with gaps between them, and a coordination job that lands on whoever has the least ability to refuse it — usually you.
The cost of that does not appear on any quotation. It appears as the three weeks lost while the structural drawings catch up with a layout change, the item that was in nobody's scope, and the argument about whose instruction caused the variation.
A turnkey appointment removes the gaps by removing the seams. TopHall Group carries the design, the cost measurement, the procurement and the construction on one contract. You approve a scope and a figure, and you hold one company to both.
What turnkey solves
Five problems that only exist when a project is split up
None of these are caused by bad consultants. They are caused by the spaces between them.
Scope that falls between appointments
The item everyone assumed was in someone else's package. Under one contract there is no other package for it to be in.
Programmes that were never aligned
Design finishing after procurement was supposed to start is the single most common source of delay. One team means one programme with one critical path.
Variations with no clear owner
When four parties can each instruct a change, the cost position becomes unarguable only after the money is spent. Here every variation is measured against the same bill and agreed in writing first.
Design that cannot be built at the price
A design priced after it is finished is a design priced too late. Costing runs alongside the drawings, so the scheme and the budget converge instead of colliding.
Being the coordinator of your own project
If you are the only person who talks to everyone, you are the project manager whether you agreed to be or not. Turnkey gives that job to someone who is paid to do it.
What is inside the appointment
The whole chain, under one contract
You are not buying construction. You are buying the coordination of everything construction depends on.
Feasibility & Viability
Whether the scheme works technically and financially on that site, before design money is committed to finding out.
Architectural & Structural Design
Layouts and reinforced concrete or steel design developed together, so the structure suits the building rather than constraining it late.
Bill of Quantities
Measured quantities and tender documentation that fix the budget to the drawings and give every subsequent change a price basis.
Construction
Substructure, superstructure, finishes and external works delivered against the programme and the bill.
Project Management
Procurement, programme, cost control, quality inspections and reporting held by the same team doing the work.
How turnkey runs
One appointment, six stages
You approve each stage before the next begins. Nothing proceeds on an assumption.
Brief
What you want to build, where, what it has to do, and what you are prepared to spend.
Feasibility & site assessment
Whether the site and the budget support the brief, and what would have to change if they do not.
Design & bill of quantities
Drawings and measured costs developed together, with the approval documentation prepared alongside.
Fixed scope & programme
You approve a defined scope, a measured budget and a dated programme. This is the document everything is held against.
Build & report
Construction with staged inspections, progress reporting and spend tracked against the approved bill.
Commission & hand over
Services tested, snagging closed, as-built drawings and operating information handed to you.
Why TopHall for turnkey
Turnkey only works if the capability is real
Plenty of firms offer turnkey and subcontract the parts they cannot do. Here is what is actually in-house.
Seven service lines, not one plus referrals
Design, construction, EIA, water engineering, feasibility, project management and quantity surveying are all services we sell in their own right, not capabilities invented for a turnkey pitch.
Costing that runs with the design
Because the same practice does both, the budget is tested continuously rather than discovered at tender. Schemes get value-engineered while it is still cheap to change them.
One programme, genuinely
Design, procurement and construction are sequenced against each other from the first week, which is where the time on a split project is usually lost.
Statutory work inside the plan
Environmental impact assessment, environmental management plans and approval documentation are produced in-house and given dates, not treated as something to deal with later.
A cost position you can check any week
Spend against the bill, variations agreed in writing, and a named contact reporting on a fixed cycle.
Our work
Design through to structure
Visualisations produced by our team and photographs from TopHall sites, each captioned for what it is.
Design visualisationDesign stage: a scheme resolved to visualisation before drawings were issued for construction.
Site photographSubstructure: stone strip foundations set out and coursed on site.
Site photographSuperstructure: a suspended block-and-beam slab with reinforcement set out for inspection.
Before you call
What people ask about turnkey
Does turnkey mean I lose control of the decisions?
No. It means you stop coordinating and start approving. Each stage ends with something you sign off — the scheme, the measured budget, the programme — and construction proceeds against documents you have approved. What changes is that you are making decisions rather than chasing four parties to get you the information needed to make them.
Is turnkey more expensive than appointing everyone separately?
The fee line can look higher because it includes work that is unpriced on a split project — coordination, programme management and cost control — rather than because the same work costs more. What a split appointment usually costs extra is in delay and in variations that nobody owned. The honest answer is that it depends on the project, and we will tell you if yours is one where separate appointments would serve you better.
Can you join a project that has already started?
Yes, and it is common. We would review what exists — drawings, costs, work already built — and tell you plainly what can be carried forward and what needs redoing. We will not take over a project and quietly build on a foundation we do not think is sound.
Want one company answerable for the whole build?
Tell us what you are trying to build and where. We will tell you what a turnkey appointment would cover and what it would not.
Prefer to talk now? Call +254 742 147 558.