{"id":213031,"date":"2025-11-09T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-experts-warn-kenyas-overreliance-on-imports-driving-up-construction-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:00:54","slug":"kenya-experts-warn-kenyas-overreliance-on-imports-driving-up-construction-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-experts-warn-kenyas-overreliance-on-imports-driving-up-construction-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Experts Warn Kenya&#8217;s Overreliance On Imports Driving Up Construction Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Overreliance on imported construction materials is driving up costs, exposing Kenya&#8217;s real estate sector to global supply chain disruptions, and limiting job creation, experts have warned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking during the final day of the Big 5 Construct Kenya 2025 exhibition in Nairobi, industry players urged the government and private sector to strengthen local manufacturing capacity to keep the sector competitive and sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;We cannot keep relying on overseas materials and external supply&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070245.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Overreliance on imported construction materials is driving up costs, exposing Kenya&#8217;s real estate sector to global supply chain disruptions, and limiting job creation, experts have warned. Speaking during the final day of the Big 5 Construct Kenya 2025 exhibition in Nairobi, industry players urged the government and private sector to strengthen local manufacturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":213032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7601,11509,9694,5060,10673,4688,430,6097,257,29013,254,12313],"class_list":["post-213031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-construction","tag-costs","tag-driving","tag-experts","tag-imports","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-overreliance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}