Positive impact of Civil engineering industry on the Kenyan economy:

Civil engineering has been and in recent years contributed massively to improving
the Kenyan economy.

Through first hand and further on, the Civil engineering industry has impacted
positively and continuous to be a critical pillar of the Kenyan economy.

The ways in which civil engineering has contributed positively to the Kenyan
economy include:

1. Employment creation: through the discipline of civil engineering in Kenya,

numerous multi-sectoral employment opportunities have been created. These
include

• Consultancy – In the Civil engineering discipline many qualified and

certified engineers have been able to open consultancy firms which
offer professional civil engineering consulting services and generate
revenue in return for this individuals and the organizations thus
improving their economical well being as Kenyans including the many
more people they have employed in this consultancy firms to help run
the organizations.

• Contractors – A majority of Kenyan contracting firms are of the civil

engineering discipline. And through establishing and running
professional civil engineering firms , many civil engineers in Kenya
have been able to generate massive revenue both for the government
and for the individuals themselves and the people employed under
them

• Engineers – Engineers form a core and critical part of the civil

engineering discipline and are the ones mostly in charge of civil
engineering projects across the civil engineering spectrum. Every year
massive and vast construction projects are initiated and completed in
Kenya and civil engineers are behind all these. Through this projects
the government, private sector and the citizenry of Kenya have been
able to make millions of shilling from revenues, taxes and fees charged
in buying, renting, leasing and more.

• Suppliers – suppliers of different materials, products and services

needed in the civil engineering projects have been able to benefit and
make large sums of profit form civil engineering projects. By supplying
such kind of necessary goods and services to civil engineering projects,
suppliers have been able to make profits for their companies and in
turn benefitted the many people employed under them. This has
indeed impacted the Kenyan economic positively in a large scale.
2. Massive investment into Kenya – International companies have come into
Kenya to carry out massive civil engineering projects which have in turn led
to massive investments inform of

• Investment to buy capital resources such as land over which the

projects will be established

• Investment injected to purchase material needed for civil

engineering projects such as sand, cement, concrete and more

• Investment injected to buy ,lease or hire heavy and light civil

engineering equipment

• Investment injected to obtain licenses, permits and different forms of

certification which in turn raise money for the countries revenue
collecting authorities

3. Infrastructure: Through civil engineering, varied and numerous forms of

infrastructure have been put up in Kenya and have in turn helped open up
business opportunities both for the Government, the private sector and the
Kenyan citizenry in general.

• Bridges –The design and construction of bridges in different parts of

the country ahs lead to linkages between different places being built
and this connection by bridges has opened up new business
opportunities, allowed transfer of goods and services and generally
improved the economy of different parts of the country.

• Roads – Since 2002 there has been a sharp and massive increase in
road building projects that has led to numerous roads being designed
and constructed in different parts of the country. This has in turn led to
increased business transactions, transfer of goods,services,knowledge
and improvement of the economy of the different places that have
been connected by the roads designed through Civil engineering

• Railways – Although the railway network in Kenya is poorly developed

and still running on the ancient design, on it massive loads of goods
are moved each and every day from the coast to the inner parts of
Kenya and across the country to the neighboring countries like Uganda
on the Kenya railway system. Through such endeavors business
opportunities have been created and have helped build the economy
of the country at different parts ,scales and levels of the economy.

• Seaports and airports – through the civil engineering discipline, the

Kenyan seaports and airports have been designed and constructed
leading to a robust and active import and export industry for Kenya;
 which brings in millions of dollars each year to the country and
improves the economy and livehoods of many Kenyans.

• Buildings –through civil engineering; design and development of many

buildings in Kenya has taken place and this has in turn provided work
space, housing, storage facilities and the like for many Kenyans and
foreigners to work, stay and play. Different initiates both private and
public have taken place under these facilities and resulted in massive
wealth creation and the positive growth of the Kenyan economy.

4. Creating business opportunities: at different industries and levels civil

engineering has been able to create business opportunities for different
people through first and second hand channels