PEOPLE

We will make decisions for each project to increase local labour hours to the extent possible - quantified to better understand our impact. This means designing and building projects which use local materials, assembled by local labour and in some cases in a way in which mechanisation is specifically avoided. The benefit is to a local community or pool of labour that would otherwise have missed these opportunities.

In seeking to encourage local labour we can also try to preserve and enhance vital construction and craft skills such as the locally relevant trades of masonry, joinery and terrazzo. These trades were prevalent in prior years both in Nairobi and along the East African littoral but have diminished in light of more contemporary, mechanised and cost focused building methodologies.