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Cooling, ventilation, indoor-air-quality and entrance-conditioning strategies for malls, shops, restaurants and shared circulation areas.
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Retail engineering must create comfortable customer environments while supporting diverse tenants, food and beverage operations, high footfall, changing layouts and efficient landlord operation.
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Retail engineering must create comfortable customer environments while supporting diverse tenants, food and beverage operations, high footfall, changing layouts and efficient landlord operation.
Tenant utility provisions
Power, water, drainage, cooling and metering criteria that give tenants clear, coordinated connection points.
Food and beverage services
Restaurant and commercial-kitchen MEP, grease management, extract, make-up air, LPG, hood suppression and hot-water systems.
Power, lighting and ICT
Distribution, standby supply, efficient lighting, controls, digital infrastructure, security, access and public-address interfaces.
Fire and smoke safety
Detection, alarms, firefighting, smoke-control interfaces, emergency lighting and coordination around high-occupancy public spaces.
Fit-out coordination
Landlord design criteria, tenant reviews, ceiling and service coordination, construction support, testing and phased handover.
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Retail
03 projectsOngoing & upcoming
Projects in delivery.
Emplan project recordRetailProject photograph not published
RetailOngoing
Thika Road Mall
Emplan provides ongoing tenant fit-out verification and serves as MEP engineer for renovations and mall upgrades at this established 40,500 m² shopping centre on Thika Road.
- Location
- Thika Road, Nairobi
- Asset type
- Retail and leisure mall
- Project status
- Ongoing
- Appointment scope
- Tenant fit-out verification; MEP engineering for renovations and mall upgrades
- Emplan role
- MEP engineering consultant
- Project scale / profile
- Approximate area: 40,500 m² · Retail and leisure mall
- Engineering scope
- Tenant MEP submission and compliance verification; Landlord-service and base-building interface coordination; MEP engineering for renovations and operational upgrades; Life-safety, utilities and phased-work coordination in a live mall
- Approximate area
- 40,500 m²
- Original development completed
- 2016
Emplan capabilities applied
- Tenant MEP submission and compliance verification
- Landlord-service and base-building interface coordination
- MEP engineering for renovations and operational upgrades
- Life-safety, utilities and phased-work coordination in a live mall
RetailShelved after tender · Permit constraints
Afriwell Lower Kabete Fuel Station & Commercial Centre
MEP engineering for a fuel station with an attached commercial strip mall in Lower Kabete, bringing retail utilities, forecourt services and shared infrastructure into one coordinated design. The design reached tender stage before the project was shelved because the required permits were not obtained.
- Location
- Lower Kabete, Nairobi
- Asset type
- Fuel station and strip mall
- Project status
- Shelved due to permit constraints
- Emplan role
- MEP engineering consultant
- Project scale / profile
- Fuel station and strip mall
- Engineering scope
- Retail-unit power, lighting, water and drainage provisions; Fuel-station and retail-service interface coordination; Forecourt lighting, earthing and life-safety systems; Fire protection and emergency-system coordination; Shared utilities and future tenant connection planning
- Client
- Afriwell Ltd
- Design stage reached
- Tender documentation
Emplan capabilities applied
- Retail-unit power, lighting, water and drainage provisions
- Fuel-station and retail-service interface coordination
- Forecourt lighting, earthing and life-safety systems
- Fire protection and emergency-system coordination
- Shared utilities and future tenant connection planning
Completed projects
Delivered and established experience.
Emplan project recordRetailProject photograph not published
Retail
Cianda Mall
Emplan provided MEP engineering for this Nairobi retail development, coordinating the building-services requirements of public, tenant and operational areas.
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Asset type
- Retail development
- Project status
- To be confirmed
- Emplan role
- MEP engineering consultant
- Project scale / profile
- Retail development
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