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Construction Review is a monthly trade journal targeted at the construction industry in Africa. Started in 1989 the publication has been in existence for 23 years and is the most widely distributed construction journal in Africa with a readership spread out in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia. The readership consists of architects, engineers, contractors, quantity surveyors, project managers, suppliers of equipment and materials to the industry as well as key decision makers in relevant government ministries and agencies.

The first edition was published in 1989 by engineering students at the University of Nairobi as a private business venture to provide a media for students in the College of Architecture and Engineering to exchange ideas. The enterprise was led by Eric Kimani who at the time was the immediate past chairman of the Engineering Students Association but soon after it gained a place as a voice for the whole industry in Kenya and subsequently the African continent.

Distribution of the publication is through business partnerships located in all the key countries in Africa from which editorial content as well as advertising is also channeled

Today the publication has an online presence through its website where a weekly newsletter is published and sent out to subscribers along with the digital version of the print edition that now reaches a wider global audience. The website also has a forum for the exchange of views by readers and an online directory that lists key players in the industry.

The publication is owned by Group Africa Publishers Limited a Kenyan company located in Nairobi which also publishes African Mining Brief and Agricultural Review.