About The Workshop

This workshop aims at fostering international collaboration, student and staff mobility, and multidisciplinary research on the topics of sustainable construction, urbanisation, and management of local raw materials.

The workshop is open to researchers, PhD and Master students, private sector professionals, NGO representatives, and anyone interested in the sustainable built environment.

Participation in the workshop is free (registration is mandatory).

The online event is organised as part of the Erasmus+ KA107 mobility programme between Meru University of Science and Technology and the University of Padua, by the local coordinators, Joseph Mwiti Marangu and Luca Valentini.

MAIN TOPICS:

• Role of international mobility (with focus on exchange with African institutions and intra-African mobility) and global partnership in achieving Sustainable Development Goals related to the construction industry.
• Role of multidisciplinary research (linking engineers, materials scientists, chemists, physicists, geoscientists, urbanists, architects).
• Sustainable supply chains and circular economy in the construction industry; effect of quarrying/mining activities on the landscape and society.
• Use of local raw materials for construction (clay, biomasses, industrial by-products).

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Registration will be open by the beginning of June

 

Global Partnership for Sustainable Construction and Resource Efficiency

 Online Workshop – 16 July 2021

Abstracts and biographies coming soon…

…please, find the list of confirmed speakers below

  Ghada Bassioni (Ain Shams University, Egypt)

Mark Bediako (Council for Scientific and Insustrial Research, Ghana)

Penda Diallo (University of Exeter, UK)

Alastair Marsh (University of Leeds, UK)

Joseph Mwiti Marangu (Meru University of Science and Technology, Kenya)

Fernando Martirena (Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba)

Federico Monica (TaxiBrousse, Italy)

Jackson Wachira Muthengia (University of Embu, Kenya)

Mauricia Nambatya (HYT Uganda)

Kolawole Olonade (University of Lagos, Nigeria)

Mike Otieno (Wits University, South Africa)

Nonkululeko Radebe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Kyle Riding (University of Florida, US)

Alicia Regodon Puyalto (UN-HABITAT, United Nations / Kenya)

Wolfram Schmidt (BAM, Germany)

Luca Valentini (University of Padua, Italy)

Nduta Wambura (Erasmus Mundus Programme, European Union / Kenya)

 

Click the link below for registration.

https://www.geoscienze.unipd.it/registration-form