Stormwater management is being justified as a fundamental line of consideration in achieving sustainable urban development. Lusaka urban experiences impacts ensuing from developments in form of urban floods. This study was undertaken in Lusaka urban to assess the use of a full exfiltration...
Download PDF ↓Stormwater management is being justified as a fundamental line of consideration in achieving sustainable urban development. Lusaka urban experiences impacts ensuing from developments in form of urban floods. This study was undertaken in Lusaka urban to assess the use of a full exfiltration...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia part of the electric grid is not monitored, this means that there are no sensors in the electric grid to enable grid status information to be sent to the power utility. Without these sensors the power utility finds it difficult to determine when there is a power failure in the...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia it is estimated that the existing housing stock stands at 2.5 million units catering for about 16 million people. The national housing deficit stands at more than 2 million houses and is compounded by urbanisation. Efforts have so far been made to use alternative building technology...
Download PDF ↓Collaboration is critical to the successful implementation of construction projects; the sharing of knowledge and information on a construction project is one of the key factors of a successful contractual relationship. Currently, the visualization, coordination and management of project...
Download PDF ↓The prevalence of overloading, which is exceeding the maximum load weight, on public transport especially buses in Zambia is very rampant. This is attributed mainly to the fact that there is currently no system to measure and monitor load weight particularly at bus stations apart from few...
Download PDF ↓Recently, the use of Television White Spaces (TVWS) for broadband communication has raised interest world over. TVWS refers to regions of radio spectrum in the Ultra High Frequency(UHF)bandthatarenotusedallthetimeinaspecificgeographicallocation.TVWS spectrum brings with advantageous propagation...
Thirty four out of forty (85%) TAZARA Diesel Electric (DE) locomotives were operating with either defective or no speedometer system at all. This compromised the safety of locomotives and peoples’ lives. As a result of financial challenges, TAZARA was unable buy new DE speedometer system costing...
Download PDF ↓Design and construction practices in Zambia have tended to neglect the risk posed by seismicity on structures, and no earthquake design and construction guides exist. The recent earthquake occurrences suggest that earthquake incidences can no longer be ignored. The research studied the occurrence...