ICRAF Research Centre

NAIROBI, KENYA

ICRAF (International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) is part of the CGIAR system, a World Bank co-ordined consultative group in agricultural research. Triad have been involved in the development of their new campus at Gigiri since its inception in 1988, designing the headquater building in collaboration with Whites of Sweden. This administrative building, with libraries and conference facilities, was completed in 1989 on a green field site adjoining the United Nations complex in Gigiri.

Subsequently ICRAF obtained more land and decided to site their other facilities that were scattered around East Africa on site to centralise some of their research programmes. Triad was commissioned to design the new research building which included ten laboratories,a germplasm storage facility for the world agro-forestry seed bank, a 200- seat conference hall, offices and social facilities, a project which consists of 2,500 square metres of built area.

The project was designed using a range of local and imported materials and is set in a landscaped park. The central services to the building include distilled water systems, acid resistant drainage systems and a full range of voice data, clean power and back-up power systems. Triad worked closely with ICRAF scientists to design and build flexible spaces that allowed scientists to establish a different range of laboratory requirements on the campus. The project was jointly funded by KfW of Germany, the Danish government, the Governments of Japan and the Kenya Government and was completed within budgets.

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