August 2010

Nigeria: Building Collapse - NIOB Blames Development Control - President of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Mr. Dachollom D. Jambol, has blamed the inspection team of the Development Control Department of the Federal Capital Development Authority assigned to a site where a building collapsed at Okoli Street, off Gimbiya Street, Garki, Abuja. [AA Construction]

Nigeria: Mikang LG Awards Contracts for 25 Projects - Mikang local government of Plateau State has awarded over 25 projects to contractors to execute various contracts within the locality. Chairman of the local government, Daniel Kungmi, made this known while speaking at pre-contract execution conference with some selected contractors to undertake the projects. [AA Construction]

Nigeria: FCTA Inaugurates Committee to Audit Buildings Under Construction - The FCT Administration yesterday took pre-emptive step to confront problems of collapsed buildings by inaugurating an audit committee to vet buildings under construction in the territory. [AA Construction]

South Africa: No 6 Percent Growth 'Without Infrastructure Spending' - The construction industry is set to contract further this year, but the longer-term picture was more rosy, Henk Langenhoven, economist at the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (Safcec), said yesterday. [AA Construction]

Uganda: President's Office Site Lacks Supervisor - Construction of the sh50b President's office complex in Kampala has gone on for nine months without a supervisor, following a row over the appointment of a firm to take on the sh1.2   billion job. [AA Construction]

Mozambique: Government Approves Mphanda Nkuwa Dam - The Mozambican government on Tuesday authorised the construction of the Mphanda Nkuwa hydro-electric dam, which in its first phase will generate 1,500 megawatts of electricity. [AA Construction]

New Book: Self-Sufficient City - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the technology company HP have developed an international contest with the idea of self-sufficient city. It is an invitation to reflect on how we will live in the near future in the light of the social, cultural and technological changes in wh ...18.08.2010 [WAC Latest News]

Commercial fair to gather 150 firms on Wednesday - Commercial fair to gather 150 firms on Wednesday - Lubango, Lubango  - At least 150 national and foreign firms will exhibit as from Wednesday to Sunday at Expo/Huíla, in Lubango city, southern Huila province, their products in fields of trade, industry, providing services, civil construction, tourism and banking, Angop has learnt.read more [AA Angola]

New Tropical Fruit Processing Training Centre for Nampula - New Tropical Fruit Processing Training Centre for Nampula - The Mozambican government is building a new National Training Centre for processing tropical fruits in the administrative Post of Namialo, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula. [AA Network News] [AA Mozambique]

Living City Deisgn Competition: Visualizing the Future of Civilization - The International Living Building Institute, in partnership
with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world’s most talented and daring
designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking,
compelling model for the future of civilizat ...17.08.2010 [WAC Latest News]

Liberia: Vacate Or Be Vacated-Ducor Residents Eviction Begins Today - Residents said to be illegally occupying the vicinity of the ruined Ducor Continental Hotel in Monrovia begin evacuating or will be forcefully ejected from the area, to open way for the restoration of the multimillion dollar infrastructure. [AA Urbanisation]

Cameroon: Buildings of Doubtful Quality Persist - Some schools in the nation's political capital still have buildings that leave much to be desired. [AA Urbanisation]

South Africa: India to Hire Firms for Lucrative Project - INDIA is planning to rope in South African companies to assist with its 3-trillion, five-year infrastructure construction strategy. [AA Construction]

Biophilia and Morphogenesis. Towards an Human oriented Architecture. - Key words: Complex systems; Morphogenesis; Biophilia; Fracal geometry; The most exciting scientific developments of the past decade, such as fractals, complexity theory, evolutionary biology, and artificial intelligence give us an idea of how human beings interact with their environment. Org ...07.06.2010 [WAC Theory of Architecture & Current Issues]