{UAH} Can Uganda Engineers Solve Known Urban Infrastructure Design and Engineering Mistakes?

Can Uganda Engineers Solve Known Urban Infrastructure Design and Engineering Mistakes?

Products that flow in cities are industrial products.

The same process in repeated in road and housing construction, waste and water treatment plants, transport system, fabrication and manufacturing industry, utilities like electricity and telephone pole , motor garages, fuel stations. Medicare facilities also need enormous inputs as it is, with schools etc. 

Urban and regional design which often times is referred to as spatial or "physical planning" is about development specifically of land and property. Cities are therefore, in constant transformation i.e. massively importing goods and services (energy, matter and production) and exporting waste and emissions.

Kampala City for example, has thousands of mini buses, motor cycles (boda bodas), and hundreds of fuel stations. How do engineers think about the waste from decommissioned mini buses, vehicles, motor cycles, industrial by-products waste and pollutants coming off fuel burning etc,.?

Uganda has eleven rapidly expanding cities.

City growth is a necessary tool in economic growth and that implies road construction, housing, transport and communication networks, drainage, water and gas network, buildings, power lines, waste facilities, food, industrial products and associated industry are in constant production and consumption. These are engineering infrastructure.

The question is, do engineers think about the by-products of these entities? Houses like roads and machines flowing into the city have life spans – so what happens after expiry of their life span? Buildings are demolished, renovated and constructed – what one see in Uganda Cities is dumping construction material anyhow.

Poor but even good engineering city infrastructure, generates very unhealthy environments, pollutants, and misses use of natural environment. Uganda engineers, architects, government, researchers, have to understand the flow of products (what types) and by products and what to do about the by-products like waste.

My question therefore can Uganda engineers working with their counterpart globally come with new set of urban infrastructure mimicking nature to reduce the cost and damage to human life and nature? Industrial foods for example have huge amounts of chemical compounds detrimental to human body. But sitting in office all the time around the year might not be the best act for human body.

Best Wishes

Dan Bwanika

 

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