The GoDown’s Executive Director, Joy Mboya, and GoDown Transformation Project Coordinator, MK Mbugua, at the industry launch of a Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Prototype in Tatu City yesterday.
The year-long project by BuildX Studio has been exploring the use of mass timber as a net zero carbon solution for urban buildings in East Africa.
[Below: Joy Mboya with Johan Dahlberg of White Artkitekter, Nairobi office)During COP 26 in Glasgow early in November, President Uhuru Kenyatta affirmed Kenya’s commitment to meet the goal of Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
The use of the technology could potentially catapult of the construction industry towards climate resilient, low carbon developments in line with Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan 2018-2022, and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As part of our Transformation Project, The GoDown is committed to sustainable and inclusive processes as part of our philosophy as a vanguard cultural space. Exploration of the potential use of innovative technology in the development of the new GoDown Centre would be part of our efforts to reduce our organizational carbon footprint.
[L-R: MK Mbugua, Rehema Kabare of Women in Real Estate – WIRE, and Joy Mboya]