Roads, access, and freight routes for loads that do not fit the road.

In Kenya, the first practical question on any road or access project is which authority owns the road. The Kenya Roads Act, 2007 divides jurisdiction between the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) for trunk roads, the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) for rural classified roads, the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) for urban routes, and counties for unclassified roads — and the owning authority sets the design standards, the wayleave terms, and the access conditions. Where the route engages the Second Schedule of the Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) — riparian land, forest reserves, listed features — a National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) assessment must be in place before construction. From there the client may need route assessment, drainage logic, traffic-impact input, wayleave review, and construction supervision.

Shomax's transportation work extends the firm's civil engineering practice into roads, rural access, bridges, culverts, and specialist freight routes. The AMEA Power / Aperture Green Wind Power Project (50 MW) is the current anchor commission: transport feasibility study and rural-road design from the Port of Mombasa to the project site in Kiambu County, combining KeNHA-standard geometric design with abnormal-load route engineering for wind-turbine components.

Service scope

• Road and highway design — geometric design, pavement design, road drainage
• Rural road design, including specialist freight routes for abnormal loads such as wind-turbine components
• Bridges and culverts
• Transportation planning and traffic-impact assessment
• Route surveys, constraint mapping, and construction-stage access review

Reference evidence

AMEA Power / Aperture Green Wind Power Project (50 MW) — transport feasibility study and rural-road design, Port of Mombasa to Kiambu County.