ARCHITECTS’ CONFERENCE SET FOR NEXT WEEKBy KETRA KALUNGATHE Zambia Institute of Architects (ZIA) is next week scheduled to hold its annual international conference dubbed Architecture and Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities of Smart Cities.President Hakainde Hichilema is expected to grace the official opening of the two-day conference slated for next week in Livingstone with other government officials.ZIA President, Bwalya Masabo said the conference is designed to build environment players and at the same time cut across all professions.Mr. Masabo said the ultimate drive for smart cities is to enhance human life experiences in cities by making them safer, efficient, resilient, and adaptive to dynamic planning laws, through the application of advanced technologies and data-driven decisions and operations.He said in a statement that there is a need to develop an effective and highly functional public transportation system coupled with community social infrastructure.“There is need to have resilient, sustainable, confident, and progressive city plans. City plans that will […]
ARCHITECTS’ CONFERENCE SET FOR NEXT WEEK
