Engineering Africa,
drawing by drawing.
A working Q&A forum for consulting engineers across the continent. Mentorship, research, and live sessions follow once the community proves out. Four features, drafted with care, shipping in sequence.
- Locales
- EN, FR, PT, AR
- Disciplines
- 12
- Launch
- 2026
Forum Q and A
Ask in your discipline. Answer in your language. Build a practice record that lives outside any one project.
Open a fresh question with discipline and language tags. The post button arms once title and body are populated.
Recommended seismic design code for mid-rise buildings in East Africa?
Structural, Nairobi, 12 answers
Bituminous binder selection for hot-climate flexible pavements?
Highway, Accra, 8 answers
Allowable bearing capacity on lateritic soils, design checks?
Geotechnical, Lagos, 5 answers
FIDIC Red Book sub-clause 20.1, notice timing in francophone jurisdictions?
Contract, Dakar, 21 answers
Recommended seismic design code for mid-rise buildings in East Africa?
Working on a 6-storey project in Nairobi. Eurocode 8 or a BS-derived approach?
Most Kenyan structural engineers use Eurocode 8 since BS 8110 deprecation. For Nairobi (moderate seismicity, Type B ground), design PGA around 0.07g. Section 4.2.2 covers mid-rise.
Recommended seismic design code for mid-rise buildings in East Africa?
Most Kenyan structural engineers use Eurocode 8 since BS 8110 deprecation. For Nairobi (moderate seismicity, Type B ground), design PGA around 0.07g.
Voting and accepted ship after launch. Day-one forum is Q and A only.
Mentorship
Verified senior engineers, browsable by discipline, country, and years of practice. Day-of-launch is a directory shell with waitlist.
A wall of verified mentors. Each carries discipline, city, years on practice, and a small note describing their lane.
Accra, 11 years
Pavement design, FIDIC contracts.
Verified
Dakar, 12 years
Mid-rise concrete, Eurocode 8.
Verified
Lagos, 14 years
Lateritic soils, deep foundations.
Verified
Cairo, 9 years
HVAC for hot climates.
Verified
Accra, 11 years
Pavement design, FIDIC contracts.
Verified
Dakar, 12 years
Mid-rise concrete, Eurocode 8.
Verified
Lagos, 14 years
Lateritic soils, deep foundations.
Verified
Cairo, 9 years
HVAC for hot climates.
Verified
Senior structural engineer, Dakar
12 years, Eurocode 8 specialty
Request sent. The mentor has 72 hours to respond.
Research library
Engineering papers indexed for the African context. Each carries a cross-checked AI summary and a copy-ready citation.
Twelve hundred papers indexed by discipline, year, and country of study. Filters refine the wall down to your lane.
Allowable bearing capacity on lateritic soils, regional dataset
Author A.K., Author M.N.
A field study of 142 test piles across 11 sites in West Africa.
Bituminous binder performance in hot-climate flexible pavements
Author O.B.
Three-year monitoring of pavement rutting on the A1 corridor.
Seismic design of mid-rise concrete frames in moderate-PGA regions
Author R.S., Author A.D.
A simplified procedure aligning Eurocode 8 with East African conditions.
FIDIC Red Book sub-clause 20.1, francophone case studies
Author K.T.
A review of notice timing and claim outcomes across four jurisdictions.
Allowable bearing capacity on lateritic soils, regional dataset
Author A.K., Author M.N.
A field study of 142 test piles across 11 lateritic sites in West Africa. We compare measured allowable bearing capacities to Eurocode 7 predictions and propose a regional correction factor.
- Field data from 142 test piles across 11 lateritic sites in West Africa.
- Allowable bearing capacity averaged 280 kPa, with a coefficient of variation of 0.18.
- Eurocode 7 partial factors over-predict settlement by roughly 22 percent on the dataset.
- Authors recommend a regional correction factor and a longer monitoring window.
Cross-checked against original
A.K., M.N. (2024) Allowable bearing capacity on lateritic soils, a regional dataset. Nuna Research Library, vol. 2, pp. 14, 32.
- APA, 7th edition
- IEEE, numeric
- BibTeX entry
- EN, source
- FR, machine
- PT, machine
Live sessions
Scheduled clinics with translated captions, recorded for later. Run by verified senior practitioners.
A working week of clinics. Geotechnical, contract, seismic, MEP. The clay bar marks the next one open to your seniority.
Upcoming sessions
Geotechnical investigation, lateritic soils
14:00, 90 min
FIDIC Red Book contract amendments
10:00, 60 min
Seismic design clinic, Eurocode 8
16:30, 75 min
FIDIC Red Book contract amendments
Senior contract engineer, Dakar, 18 years
En zone seismique modere, le code Eurocode 8 reste la reference.
In moderate-seismic zones, Eurocode 8 remains the reference.
For Type B ground in Nairobi, design peak ground acceleration sits near 0.07g.
Recorded for later. Replays carry the same captions.
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