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BIM, another Challenge for Africa

The underlying idea behind the creation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is to bring the construction sector to also experience the great advances and profound changes, authorized by the industrial revolutions, by improving productivity through better collaboration between all stakeholders, a reduction in costs, an optimization of the sustainability of projects.

Multimodal platforms, a response to the mobility of African cities

Three ESSACA students have turned, through their PFE projects, towards intermediary cities to propose multimodal transport platforms in order to anticipate the challenges of mobility inherent to their development.

Kinshasa: Towards a new modernity

Kinshasa, gigantic metropolis and capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is located on the south bank of the Congo River; it is one of the largest cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The inhabitants of the city commonly called Kinois are, if not musicians, great music lovers giving the city of Kinshasa a rich cultural identity where music, notably Congolese rumba, is a social practice based on sharing and a essential factor of intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The climate is hot all year round, with a dry season from May to September and a rainy season from October to May punctuated by severe storms that occur frequently but rarely last more than a few hours.