Another update from Ileret with images and text by Fraser Smith. This is the progress report on the water pipeline and the generator house that is being built near the borehole. We had decided ...

Due to the remoteness of Ileret and the expense of transporting building materials is very costly. Therefore new techniques are to be employed in the buildings on this side of the lake ...

I have a few recent images of the large laboratory that is under construction at Turkwel. The basement which will be used as storage area, is now complete and the large slab has mostly been laid. The ...

The welding the 7m lengths of pipe into 351m rolls was completed last week. Now the laying of the pipes along the 8 km trench has begun. The rolls of pipe were transported to the ...

The TBI Ileret borehole is located some 8 kilometers from the camp. The water needs to be piped to the field center so that construction work can begin at the beginning of next year. ...

The laboratory at Turkwel now has some walls in place. Kyalo has just sent these images to me from the site. With a lot more construction to do on this building there will be several ...

Construction continues at Turkwel on the large laboratory. The basement slab has been laid and walls are going up. The foundations for the main part of the laboratory are being dug as ...

The construction at TBI Turkwel continues and foundations are going in for the second large laboratory. The construction at TBI Turkwel continues and foundations are ...

The excavation crew have completed the first excavation after four weeks of work. They have now moved to a new site where fossil hunter Robert Moru found a hominid femur last year. You ...

Final week of first excavation in progress for the Koobi Fora Research Project. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Final week of first excavation ...