A tour was organised by the University of Nairobi for staff from the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering to visit Zenith Steel Fabricators at their factory in Isinya, Kajiado County. Members who attended were Eng. Maimba, Eng. Matheri, Eng. Mburu, Eng. Nancy and Eng. Muthomi. The tour was led by Mohid Moez, an alumni of the Department. Zenith Steel is eager to take up students for their fourth-year attachments and internships. Zenith Steel handles about 40 000 metric tonnes of steel annually.

Phelix Odero, a fourth-year student from the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering, makes a presentation on timber design on a webinar organised by the Architectural Association of Kenya - Engineer's Chapter. Phelix Odero works part-time as a Technical Sales Representative (East Africa Region) at Rothoblaas Company. Other speakers in the webinar are: Andrew Lawrence who is a Director and a Fellow at Arup and the UK representative on the European Timber Design Code Committee; Arch. George Wekesa, who is the Timber Lead at Build X. Arch.

The department has launched a thesis template for Postgraduate students. The template aims to improve the standardisation of the theses submitted to the University of Nairobi. The template is available from the webpage on the Department's website dedicated for postgraduate students research process. The link to download is https://app.box.com/s/pueg3bi14zicred6jqohdtu7zu9w8zf2.