Rahimtulla Tower, also known as the Rahimtulla Trust Building, is a tower in the
Upper Hill neighbourhood of
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper h ...
, 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,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
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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 ...
.
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
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