The Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate digital transformation of the rail industry in Africa, says Hao Guoqiang, President of Global Transportation Development Department in the Huawei Enterprise Business Group. He was speaking at the first Africa Digital Rail Forum 2020 that took place online on the 19 August. The event was hosted
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Water shortages and transboundary water conflicts are fuelling conflicts across Africa and the Middle East. Add to that rapid urbanisation, and it’s a potentially explosive mix The planet is heating up fast. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East and Africa where the impacts on water security and
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Streams of cool jazz seep from the ceiling speakers, massaging Travelstart’s reception room like a healing balm. In the open office area split by glass panes into a conference room, a call centre for recovery, and a corner for finance and marketing, some staff don masks and appear to be socially-distanced.
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A "white elephant project" is a phrase used when referring to expensive endeavours which fail to live up to expectation. The phrase originated in East Asia where in spite of the fact that they couldn't do hard work like other elephants and despite their maintenance cost being exorbitant ownership of
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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced successful berthing of the biggest container vessel to ever call at any Nigerian port. The Maerskline Stardelhorn vessel with Length overall of 300 metres, width of 48 metres was received at the Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT), Onne in Rivers State at 4:20 p.m. on
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Water is the most elemental ingredient of life; its regular availability is essential to our economies and to civilization itself. Yet billions of people yearly confront water-related stress, including devastating droughts, destructive flooding and toxic contamination. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe has dedicated his career to understanding this critical resource so humanity can
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A crane can lift a burden, move it sideways, and lower it. These operations, which the Greeks employed when building marble temples 25 centuries ago, are now performed every second somewhere around the world as tall ship-to-shore gantry cranes empty and reload container vessels. The two fundamental differences between ancient
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In the age of coronavirus and violent protests throughout the United States, more and more people are retreating to personal bunkers to live, according to the New York Post. A February YouGov survey reported that 19% of Americans thought a global pandemic or climate change would bring about the end of
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When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Sberbank Technopark in Russia by Zaha Hadid Architects. Zaha Hadid Architects Thanks to computer-aided design (CAD), architects were
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The General Manager of Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Mrs. Abiola Kosegbe, an engineer, has called for collaboration of professional bodies in the built environment to rid the state of quackery in the construction industry. She made the call at the recently concluded first virtual national workshop of the Nigerian
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