Innovation — iBuild

Online building construction app iBuild launched in Kenya Kenya-based International Corporation, iBUILD, with global headquarters in Washington, DC, has launched its mobile- enabled construction platform in Kenya. The company, which began its first testing in the country in 2017, is now fully launching nationally into the open building and construction market. Kenya will be the first full market launch and iBUILD hopes that the country will demonstrate strong leadership in how civil society can address the dearth of affordable housing and lack of residential construction activity. This is achievable through providing an empowering marketplace with the ability for ‘fundis’ (masons) to...