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Douglas Rige displays his bricks at his Nyambaria Ekerubu bricks baking site on 22/8/2020.(Sammy Omingo,Standard)
The rising cost of building materials has pushed those in the built environment to engage in cost-cutting measures. One such method is the use of only cement and water for walling and less cement screed for plastering.
A unit that could gobble over Sh1 million in a rural setting, for example, ends up costing the homebuilder only a couple of hundred thousand shillings.
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