Our Facilities

Rural Focus Ltd has the following facilities which it is able to utilize for its projects:

General

• Purpose Built Offices in riparian area of Nanyuki (Kenya),
• Training Hall with multiple group work sites and on-site kitchen,
• Water Quality Laboratory,
• Fully equipped branch office in Nairobi,
• Fully equipped vehicle garage,
• Fleet of well-serviced 4WD vehicles,
• VHF and HF Radio communications,
• Satellite Phones for remote field work,
• Full set of field camping equipment.

Surveying, Mapping, and GIS

• GIS Workstation with A1 digitiser and A1 plotter,
• CAD workstation,
• Total Station (TOPCON TS212)- an electronic theodolite, with data logger, capable of accurate measurements upto 1.5km,
• Thales Promark 3 GPS Survey System ( 1 x Base Station, 2 x Rovers) accurate over 25km radius,
• Handheld Garmin GPSs,
• Dumpy Levels,
• Full Set of 1:50,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000 Maps of Kenya,
• Software: Licensed copies of ArcGIS/ArcView, Magellan Map Source, Golden Software Surfer, Intellicad 2008, ProGEEarth (DTM), Thales Mobile Mapper and Thales GNSS Solutions Software.

Materials Testing and Water Resource Surveys

• Portable Water Quality Analysis Equipment, covering EC, pH, temperature, turbidity, and reagents for different chemicals,
• Paqualab for microbiological analysis of water samples,
• Electronic temperature controlled oven,
• Electronic scale,
• Current meter,
• Sediment sampling equipment.