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

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floors. It is 16 storeys smaller than the New Central Bank Tower and the second tallest building in the country after the

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. 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

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once had its head office here. It moved out of Rahimtulla in 2015, to Muguga,

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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