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Submitted by IQ4News on Mon, 23/05/2011 - 10:46am

Nairobi, May 23rd 2011: Migaa, Nairobi’s green estate set on 775 acres in Kiambu and including its own golf course, is beginning bulk earthworks to guarantee great views for every home and shape the estate’s golf course and lakes.

The earth works are due to move half a million cubic metres of earth, with the estate’s basic roads and services also now being laid down.

This month, the team from Rainbow Project Limited began the site clearing, expected to take 6 months, clearing the vegetation and shaping the site.

Migaa is set on a former coffee estate, and unlike every other Nairobi development on former coffee plantations, the estate is retaining this character, keeping some 100 acres of existing coffee, across the golf course and as part of the development’s leisure areas and green environment.

With now 50 to 100 people on site every day, labourers are uprooting the old coffee stumps from areas being cleared and collecting them together. The stumps are not being burnt on site, but being offered as a benefit to local residents, who are collecting the stumps to use as fire wood in their own homes.

The stumps “are an ideal source of energy both for industrial and home use”, said Raymond Kanno, the Project Manager. Some of the stumps are also being set aside for use during landscaping. The construction of the primary internal road is also beginning, running from the main road to the club house, complete with surface finishes.

The next stage is now earth excavation and grading, using heavy equipments to move, flatten and heap soil.

“The scope of the excavation job varies from digging footings for small buildings to moving hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of earth approximated at about 500,000m3,” said Mr Kanno.

The mass haul will create the best views for future homes over the golf course, fairways, open space and water features. Hauling the earth will also improve the topography and slope management, with the terrain currently rugged, but the end-point set to be an ideal landscape with hill top views and valleys. The earth works are also necessary to create the water features, including streams, a dam, water reservoir and recreational lakes.

Work has also begun on the golf course with Hole 18 being the first to be constructed. The first step is surveying and top soil stripping and general shaping. A nursery is also being established that will be used to seed the 190-acre golf course. Migaa will later be installing an underground irrigation system using recycled water to irrigate the fairways.