Rahimtulla Tower

Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the Upper Hill neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

Rahimtulla Tower
General information
TypeCommercial
LocationUpper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinates1°17′46″S 36°48′56″E
Completed1999
Technical details
Floor count22
Floor area17,000 m2 (180,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
ArchitectPlanning Systems Services
Main contractorLaxmanbhai Construction

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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References
  1. "Contact". Spencon. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2020. Rahimtulla Tower, hill road P.O. Box 881-00606 Nairobi Kenya
  2. Gunter, Joel; Charles Young. "Spencon: Inside the collapse of an African construction giant". BBC. Retrieved 6 April 2020. [...]relocating Spencon from its upmarket Nairobi headquarters to a dusty out-of-town maintenance depot owned by the company,[...]
  3. "Contact Us". Spencon. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2020. Kenya (Corporate HQ) Off A104 Highway, Muguga [...] Nairobi, Kenya


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