Successfully Completed
St. Matia Mulumba Hospital, Thika
Thika, Kiambu County, Kenya 2022
Building Contractors in Ruaka & Kiambu County
Jossie Construction is based in Ruaka, off Limuru Road. Kiambu is where our plant is stored, where our regular subcontractors live, and where we can have a site agent on your plot the same morning you call.
Our Ruaka yard, roughly 20 minutes from most Kiambu sites
What building in Ruaka actually involves
Ground conditions decide your foundation cost
Parts of Kiambu — Ruaka and the lower Banana area among them — sit on black cotton soil, which swells when wet and shrinks when dry. Building on it without accounting for it produces cracked floor slabs and distorted walls within a few years. It usually means excavating deeper to reach stable ground, or designing a foundation that spans it. Either way it is a real cost that must be established before you accept a price, not discovered during excavation. We check what is under the plot before we quote.
Plot access is the other hidden cost
Much of Ruaka and Ndenderu has developed faster than its access roads. A plot reached down a narrow murram lane changes how material is delivered, whether a ready-mix truck can reach the pour, and what it costs to get a slab in. We look at access before pricing so that the logistics are in the number you are given rather than in a variation later.
Building among neighbours
Kiambu plots are close together and getting closer. Boundary setbacks, where spoil goes, dust, and construction traffic on a shared lane all matter to the people living around your site — and an aggrieved neighbour can stop a job. We agree working hours, keep the access route clean, and handle the neighbour conversation before it becomes a complaint.
Areas we cover from here
We regularly work in and around:
- Banana
- Ndenderu
- Limuru
- Kiambu Town
- Thika
- Ruiru
- Gigiri
- Runda
Proof of work
Projects we have delivered in Ruaka
Our own yard is on Banana Road, Ruaka. Kiambu is the county we know best and the one we can be on site in fastest.
Ongoing
Extension of Existing Buildings
Utawala, Nairobi County 2026
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