Presentation at the second capacity building workshop at the DAAD KNUST/RWTH BRIDGE Project in Aachen in November this year, November. Presentation is on Design of Retention Basin for Accra. Credit goes to my Partners in the Technical University of Munich and especially to Benedikt Bauer who undertook the study for his MSc in Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Following the presentation, we had the benefit of visiting some retention basins sites in Aachen. I am happy to have a delegation of 10 academic staff and 4 PhD students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for this capacity building workshop.
In November 2023, I led another group of 9 academic staff and 5 PhD students on similar capacity building workshop on water resources management for building resilient communities. As part of the BRIDGE project, I also led a tram of 6 academic staff and 2 traditional leaders from Ghana to the critical waters conference in Hannover in October 2024. I see these efforts in building capacity in water literacy as one the highlights of my academic career, especially building the future of young scholars and PhD student. I acknowledge the RWTH University team in Aachen for all the support in our trips to Germany.
I dedicate my academic activities over they years to my beloved Akpene Adzo Ahadzie, 6th Year Architecture Student of the KNUST, who died on 9th July 2024 through a ghastly road traffic accident involving herself on a bicycle and a vehicle. Adzo was keen on promoting sustainable mobility but died prematurely as a result of the accident. A stark reminder of the danger faced by bicycle riders in developing countries, lacking bicycle infrastructure on university campuses. Rest in Peace in Adzo