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General Information

Completion: 1999
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building

Location

Location: ,
Coordinates: 1° 17' 46" S    36° 48' 56.16" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

number of floors (above ground) 18

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the Upper Hill neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

The tower is a reinforced concrete structure, and clad with blue-tinted glass and white louvre tiles. The tower has twenty-two storeys, including a double floor-height lobby, plus two basement floors. It is 16 storeys smaller than the New Central Bank Tower and the second tallest building in the country after the UAP Old Mutual Tower.

The building is capped by a 30-metre high mast, for television and radio communication. The main tenants are iWay Africa, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Dhanush InfoTech. The architect is Planning Systems Services, the structural engineers Mangat, I.B. Patel & Partners, the main contractors were Laxmanbhai Construction and the services engineers for the project were Howard Humphreys (Kenya) Limited.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Rahimtulla Tower" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20032892
  • Published on:
    02/11/2007
  • Last updated on:
    16/05/2015
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