ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT ON THE STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY(SGR) PROJECT FROM SYOKIMAU TO ATHI RIVER STATION.
The Syokimau Railway Station was officially opened on 13th November 2012 by H.E. the President Mwai Kibaki.
The Syokimau Railway Station was officially opened on 13th November 2012 by H.E. the President Mwai Kibaki.
The subsequent improvements on the road between Pangani and Muthaiga, which is part of the
Thika superhighway, was done to address issues of poor level of service, traffic volume capacity
and safety on the road.
High rates of traffic and travel demand, both motorized and non- motorized, paired with poor
road conditions all strangled the mobility and urban access and reduced safety in the
metropolitan area, which has very high rates of road traffic accidents often involving pedestrians
Negligence is often one of the main reasons that lead to the failure and collapse of structures. It
is essential that the important areas of constructions such as investigating soil properties, stresses
from winds, designing for extra loads, earthquakes, investigation of terrains, picking building
materials, workmanship, and supervision of construction works are done keenly without any
sense of negligence (Machuki, 2012).
Some of the natural causes of structural failures and collapse are tornadoes, excessive floods, and