Konza City
Client: World Bank Group / International Finance Corporation
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Size: 5,000 acres; 200,000 people
Collaborators: HR&A Advisors, SHoP Architects, TetraTech, Dalberg
Year: 2012 - 2014
Services: Infrastructure Planning, Development Advisory, Sustainability Planning
Context
Konza Technology City is a vision for a sustainable city 60km outside of Nairobi, designed to propel Kenya to meet its Vision 2030 goal of becoming a middle-income nation. The project will position the country as Africa’s leading high-tech hub by expanding Kenya’s nascent Information Technology Enabled Services sector. The goal of the greenfield development portion of this project was to create a vibrant, walkable, mixed-use development with reliable infrastructure and mobility systems—something not possible within the existing context of Nairobi.
Our Role
Level Infrastructure supported the World Bank Group and the International Finance Corporation as a client-side advisor to ensure that an integrated development process was technically viable and that this process incorporated current sustainable planning principles. The IFC approached Level Infrastructure to review and evaluate the products of the consultant team, including the master plan, infrastructure plan, development phasing, business planning, and PPP strategy. Konza City is developing today based on many of the contributions from Level Infrastructure and soon will be a new model of sustainable development for Africa’s burgeoning cities.
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