Why construction quality, compliance are now boardroom issues in Kenya

Kenya’s Sh5 trillion infrastructure fund will succeed only if youth and skills are prioritized alongside roads and bridges.

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Kenya’s economic narrative is often dominated by the scale of infrastructure ambitions and the rapid vertical growth of urban skylines. Yet a quieter, more destructive crisis of structural integrity and regulatory failure has become a recurring headline.

While the public and investors focus on project financing and land titles, a deeper challenge is emerging: the urgent need to treat consistent quality assurance and regulatory compliance as strategic imperatives, not merely site-level chores.

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