APEX Steel Limited has emerged as a leading steel manufacturing company in the East African region and by the extension in Africa. The company manufactures steel that contributes to sustainable construction in the built environment. Due diligence has been carried to ascertain the green building rating points attainable from use of specific products from APEX Steel.
Buildings have a profound impact on our natural environment, economy, health and productivity. The built environment accounts for approximately one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions, energy, water and material consumption and generates similar proportions of pollution.
As concerns about sustainability in building design and operation increase, there was a need to develop a framework for assesssing and benchmarking buildings to ascertain conformity to ‘green projects’.
WEB Limited in its effort to expand the sustainability industry in Kenya has undertaken the Manufacturer Product Declaration for APEX Steel Limited Rolling Mill Division (RMD). The prodcut review was undertaken in reference to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Green Star South Africa green building rating tools.
Traditionally, twisted bars were used in the building construction projects. However globally twisted bars have been banned due to their inconsistency in quality. The new generation steel- namely ‘Deformed Bars’; also known as ‘Ribbed Bars’ are now being used all over the world. In Kenya Apex Steel was the pioneer in bringing to the industry deformed bars, manufacturing them locally but to international standards. Apex Steel was the first to introduce deformed bars, the first to be awarded a KEBS approval for compliance and then achieve a ‘Diamond Mark of Quality’ for conformity.
The KEBS requirement in Kenya is for the Steel to have a tensile strength of Grade 460. The deformed bars being manufactured by Apex Steel are consistently of Grade 500+ (British Standards BS: 4449).
With its proven track record in meeting the demands of steel for large multi-projects ongoing simultaneously, ‘APEX TMX’ deformed bars continue to be a preferred choice for all developers, contractors and architects for its consistency in quality. This has resulted in ‘Apex Steel’ being awarded the ‘Superbrand’ status.
As a major supplier of steel to the construction industry, Apex Steel has been involved in many major Kenyan projects.
Amongst the iconic structures, the Thika Superhighway stands tall on Apex Steel’s construction steel bars. The Hotel Villa Rosa’s concrete is held together by the deformed bars manufactured by Apex Steel. And you swim with confidence at the Hotel Sankara because it’s ‘APEX TMX’ the high quality steel from Apex Steel is the assurance that the building is secure.
In addition to Thika Superhighway, Villa Rosa Kempinski and the Sankara Hotel, Apex Steel has been used in several projects be it commercial, residential, infrastructure; factories or industries. A few of them are Delta Towers, Lab and Allied, Sameer Business Park, CFC Bank, Purshottam Place, 9 West, One West, 14 Riverside, Hotel Radisson, Riverside Park, Mombasa Port expansion, English Point Marina, Tsavo-Emabakasi Transmission Line, Tana River Hydro Power Plant, Southern bypass, Northern Bypass, Sondu-Miriu Dam, Kwale Base Titanium and Tsavo Transmission Lines.
Apex Steel’s endeavor continues to meet international standards with localized availability.
From working environment to product certification, Apex Steel Ltd – RMD, is firmly committed in contributing to projects targeting certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or Green Star Africa- Kenya rating system.
