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Clarity on Govt. How We Work. Small Interdisciplinary Teams Small interdisciplinary teams working on limited projects in honest collaboration with our clients. On a personal note I actually went to boarding school for part of my younger years in this region, and I have been to the Dam in person on a few occasions over 20 years ago Lord, how time flies!

Kitson was a surveyor, and in those days he did extensive work surveying much of West Africa for mineral deposits to support the British Empire. Kitson came up with the idea to derive energy from the Volta River to serve the power plants needed to process the aluminium and bauxite deposits he discovered.

Kaiser Company. The Volta River Authority would be created during this period to oversee the development of the project, and Nkrumah would acquire huge loans from John F. Part of the terms of the deal would be the construction of an aluminium smelter in the city of Tema called Valco, then owned by the Henry J. Valco was finally purchased by the Ghanaian government in under the Kuffuor administration.

The Akosombo Dam is 2,ft long and and ft high. About Us. Login Join us. Dashboard Settings. Dapo Runsewe. We are currently in Beta version and updating this search on a regular basis. Rammed earth constructions are not a novelty, on the contrary, some sections of the Great Wall of China were made using this technique.

Relegated and replaced by modern methods of construction, the mud walls are currently re-emerging as an economic, sustainable solution, with low environmental impact.

Even Joelle Eyeson , a young African entrepreneur, is betting that it may be the answer to the housing deficit in her region. This is a rudimentary construction system in which earth is compressed into wooden boxes. The clay is horizontally placed in layers of 15 cm in height, and compacted with manual or pneumatic tools, to achieve its ideal density creating a resistant and durable structure.

Adjaye Associates has been commissioned the design of district hospitals, part of the Agenda initiative by the Ghana Government. Ghana 's architecture has long been tied to local building materials.