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Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the Upper Hill neighbourhood of
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, 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,
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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. It moved out of Rahimtulla in 2015, to Muguga,
Kiambu County Kiambu County is a county in the former Central Province of Kenya. Its capital is Kiambu and its largest town is Thika. Kiambu County is the second most populous after Nairobi County. Kiambu County borders Nairobi and Kajiado Counties to the S ...
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References


External links


Howard Humphreys (the project engineers) – Page on Rahimtulla Tower
Office buildings completed in 1999 Buildings and structures in Nairobi Skyscraper office buildings in Kenya 1999 establishments in Kenya {{Kenya-struct-stub