Architectural Association of Kenya President.
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined April 2009
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Arabbu Ndege retweeted
The few professionals in the built environment are not engaged meaningfully, Architectural Association of Kenya President George Ndege says.
Ndege says developers and authorities bear responsibility to provide safe, adequate, and healthy urban spaces. #FixingTheNationNTV
Arabbu Ndege retweeted
The Eastleigh building collapse raises important questions about professional responsibility and accountability in the built environment.
AAK President, @arabbu Ndege, will be on NTV’s Fixing the Nation to discuss the question: Eastleigh Collapse: Professional Negligence?
📅 Monday, 26 October 2026
⏰ 7:00 AM
📺 @NTVKenya
Tune in for the conversation.
#fixingthenation
It is time to formally recognise that areas in and around construction sites are hazardous. Time for a mandatory third-party liability insurance for building projects, with coverage proportionate to the project's scale, height, location and risk profile? @Arch_KE #MulikaMjengo
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AAK STATEMENT ON AVERTING THE LOOMING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Dear Member,
Attached herein is the Architectural Association of Kenya’s Statement on the widespread destruction of trees and environmental degradation across the country.
Juxtaposing urban sanitation and aesthetics between Tokyo and Nairobi reveals two paradigms of urban planning: Tokyo operates on friction-free seamlessness, while Nairobi operates on community-led adaptation. All public spaces and infrastructure in Nairobi are contested. – at Nairobi, Kenya
Tokyo (Sanitation as Public Hospitality):
Public sanitation is an extension of Omotenashi, the Japanese philosophy of selfless hospitality. Facilities are designed to blend into or elevate the surrounding public space – at Nairobi, Kenya
Arabbu Ndege retweeted
Nine guidelines which now provide the authoritative framework for assessing the sufficiency of public participation.
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What does remuneration and employment look like across Kenya’s built environment professions? The anonymous AAK Salary Survey 2026 seeks to answer this by capturing data on salaries, employment conditions, staff benefits, and workforce trends across the profession. The findings will provide valuable industry benchmarks and strengthen evidence-based advocacy, policy development, workforce planning, and initiatives aimed at improving professional practice. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. All responses will remain strictly confidential, with findings anonymized and presented only in aggregate.
Your participation matters. Help AAK build a stronger evidence base for a more competitive, equitable, and resilient built environment by filling in the survey here:
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Arabbu Ndege retweeted
The second day of the AAK Annual Convention 2026 covered topics on Climate-action and Sustainability and Policy, Urban Governance and Community Reform. Here’s a look back at Day Two in Diani! #AAKAnnualConvention
In Singapore 8 in 10 people live in public housing and over 90% are satisfied. If we are to emulate them we need to design neighbourhoods, not just houses.
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Just look at the pedestrian infrastructure, dusty, treeless so that people prefer to walk on the carriage way.
Walking is a means of transportation and should be accorded a proper place in roadworks planning @KeNHAKenya @KURAroads
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Perhaps the kind of toad matatu drivers would love to drive on. – at Nairobi, Kenya
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Today, the @aak_tpc, @aak_arch & @LandscapeArchKE , together with the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC), visited the Kamukunji site as part of the ongoing Nairobi Rivers Regeneration Programme.
The visit highlighted the important role of local communities in shaping, sustaining and taking ownership of regenerated public spaces. Meaningful community engagement is vital to ensuring that these interventions respond to local needs and create inclusive, resilient spaces for all.
This tour is a prelude to the Nairobi Biennale happening from 7th to 12th of September. Join us in a few days as we continue the site tour to City Carton and Dandora.
Visit biennale.aak.or.ke/
Arabbu Ndege retweeted
HOW CAN Engineers Board of Kenya @EngineersBoard not have a functioning board for over a year? What level of incompetency is this? Having a properly functioning board is the very least government needs to do for the young engineers. And as I have always said, retire all the wazees in EBK pronto. Give them good packages and let them go home. This sector today requires fresh undiluted perspective and ingenuity to progress it.