FBW is a 50+ employee strong UK registered international consultancy,
established in 1995, to provide professional building services throughout
Eastern Africa and the wider region.
Can you give us a history of the
practice?
In 1995 two Dutch architects and a
British structural engineer formed
a partnership in Dar es Salaam; the
company, Folkers, van Buiten and Wilks,
primarily provided architecture and
engineering services in Tanzania. In
1997, when projects were secured in
Uganda, the company opened an office
in Kampala, managed by Paul Moores, a
British architect.
In 2000, the company underwent
a change and moved it’s centre of
operation to Uganda. Geoff Wilks moved
back to the UK and became Chairman of
FBW Group in Manchester, Belinda van
Buiten and Antoni Folkers continued the
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Netherlands affiliate as FBW Architecten
and in 2002 Nigel Tilling joined Paul
Moores as a director of FBW Uganda.
As the group grows and work is secured
within the East African region, FBW
Rwanda is opened in 2010, managed
by directors Antje Eckoldt and Rob
Woffenden and, most recently, FBW
Kenya is opened in 2015. Directors
Stuart Harley and Joseph Debuni provide
operations management and engineering
leadership to the group from the
company’s Kampala office.
We currently maintain 50+ staff within
East Africa with a healthy mix of
expatriate and local professionals based
in our established offices in Kampala,
Kigali and Nairobi.