Konkola Mine is one of the wettest mines in the world. It pumps about 350,000m3 of water per day. From the inception of mining operations in 1956, water has always posed a challenge to mining despite the use of dewatering strategy involving dewatering crosscuts and dewatering boreholes. The...
Download PDF ↓Soil plaster pastes have been used around the world by local rural populations for centuries to give a finishing touch to their houses, and depending on the soil used, some chemical contamination cannot be ruled out. Some soils may contain heavy metals and other parameters depending on where it...
Download PDF ↓Zambia’s transport sector is driven by imported and costly fossil fuels. Apart from the cost element, fossil fuels are finite. The source is depleting as it is being extracted continuously. Fossil fuels are also pollutants to environment. They contribute 70% of global carbon monoxide (CO) and 19%...
Download PDF ↓Zambia’s transport sector is driven by imported and costly fossil fuels. Apart from the cost element, fossil fuels are finite. The source is depleting as it is being extracted continuously. Fossil fuels are also pollutants to environment. They contribute 70% of global carbon monoxide (CO) and 19%...
Download PDF ↓Cassava is one of the alternative crops to Zambia’s staple crop maize. Unlike maize, cassava is drought resistant; maize has adversely been affected by drought. Unfortunately cassava has been ravaged by the African cassava mosaic virus for over one hundred years. It causes cassava mosaic disease...
Download PDF ↓This study is aimed at developing processes that could mitigate bottlenecks and develop ideal lead times for the public sector procurement system. This was a cross-sectional functional pragmatic study design employing a concurrent mixed methods design. Thirty five participants from six public...
Download PDF ↓The value expectations of Information Technology (IT) for socio-economic and human development in developing countries have been high, but the real benefits and the positive impacts have been somewhat disappointing. Most developing countries in Africa are at the emerging stage of e-government...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of the study was to develop strategies and a framework for successful implementation of public sector construction projects in Zambia. An exploratory sequential mixed method was used. The major findings were that there were twelve (12) key challenges and eleven (11) possible Critical...
Public Private Partnerships have become an alternative contract model for government infrastructure. Construction and management of public markets has not been left out in this shift. Public markets come with several benefits, some of which include creating additional tax base with minimal local...
Download PDF ↓The University of Zambia is experiencing increasing challenge of car parking space and vehicle access controls to and within campus premises. Vehicles have been stolen without being detected. There has not been any effective means of recording and tracking vehicle activities in and out of campus....