Major social and economic developments in Africa, specifically in Kenya are delivered through
infrastructural projects funded by the Kenya Government and donor agencies. There is a paradigm shift
from the traditional way of running infrastructure projects with architects and civil engineers being the
project managers to construction project managers being recognized as the lead champion in execution of
these projects. Consequently, a great need of project management skills has been created in Kenya.
Specifically, there is a great need to train construction project managers to provide objective, accurate
and reliable cost assessments for investment funding and project administration as well as ensuring the
timely execution of especially large scale infrastructure projects. The paper discusses how a response to
this need was developed in Kenya. In particular, it focuses on the undergraduate Construction
Management and Real Estate Programme developed at the Kenyatta University