Rahimtulla Tower Explained

Rahimtulla Tower
Completion Date:1999
Building Type:Commercial
Location:Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinates:-1.2961°N 36.8156°W
Floor Count:22
Floor Area:17000m2
Architect:Planning Systems Services
Main Contractor:Laxmanbhai Construction

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.

Tenants

Spencon once had its head office here.[1] It moved out of Rahimtulla in 2015,[2] to Muguga, Kiambu County.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contact. https://web.archive.org/web/20110524140622/http://spencon.net/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=58. dead. 2011-05-24. Spencon. 2011-05-24. 2020-04-06. Rahimtulla Tower, hill road P.O. Box 881-00606 Nairobi Kenya .
  2. Web site: Gunter, Joel. Charles Young. Spencon: Inside the collapse of an African construction giant. BBC. 2020-04-06. [...]relocating Spencon from its upmarket Nairobi headquarters to a dusty out-of-town maintenance depot owned by the company,[...].
  3. Web site: Contact Us. https://web.archive.org/web/20160425085953/http://spencon.com/contact_us.php. dead. 2016-04-25. Spencon. 2016-04-25. 2020-04-06. Kenya (Corporate HQ) Off A104 Highway, Muguga [...] Nairobi, Kenya.