Nairobi
Karen
Saunas and plunge tubs for Karen's large garden plots: level ground, mature shade, three-phase supply and room…
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Westlands is where Nairobi works out. Almost everything we build here is commercial, and the driver is throughput rather than aesthetics.
Peak, not membership
Size the zone on the ninety minutes after the evening classes end. Two to four minutes in the water plus changeover gives ten to fifteen people per tub per hour, so a busy Westlands gym needs three positions, not one.
Commercial buildings
Slab loading checked before anything holding water, drainage worked out with the building, plant sited where a technician can reach it, and works scheduled around tenants and gym hours.
Corporate wellness
A growing share of demand here is offices rather than gyms — a small recovery room as a staff amenity. Simple, robust, easy to clean and impossible to misconfigure is the brief, which is a different design from a private house.
Questions
Westlands: what people ask
How many tubs does a busy gym need?
Three for an evening peak. One is a bottleneck members stop using.
Can this go into an existing office?
Often, with the slab checked and drainage agreed with the building. We work around tenants.
What we could build here
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Saunas
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Cold plunges
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Steam rooms
Every failed steam room we are called to failed behind the tiles. The finish is never the problem; the tank un…
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