{"id":245,"date":"2014-07-10T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:10:08","slug":"about-eco-build-africa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/about-eco-build-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-Build Africa is a multi-disciplinary organization that works on environmental architecture, sustainable urban development and housing. In these areas the organization bridges knowledge development and application by focus on three areas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Basic and applied research<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Design &amp; Construction<\/li>\n<li>Community Development.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The organization works closely with the public sector, the private sector and communities.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation boasts a wide array of respectable clients, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Government of Sweden for whom the organization has been developing the Sustainable Urban Development Programme, Symbiocity;<\/li>\n<li>United Nations Environment Programme, for whom the organization developed the current comprehensive environmental master plan;<\/li>\n<li>The Aga Khan Foundation, for whom the organization did a comprehensive study on development of its 5000 hectare campus in Tanzania;<\/li>\n<li>The DR Congo Government, for whom the organization developed a new master plan for the Proposed City of Izwa;<\/li>\n<li>Oxfam GB for whom the organization undertook research on Poverty in Nairobi\u2019s Informal Settlements to aid its Programme Development;<\/li>\n<li>World Bank for whom the organization has done work on climate change impact on cities;<\/li>\n<li>The African Union for whom Eco-Build offered technical support for climate change and urbanization including development of the Unions 20 Year Strategy on Climate Change;<\/li>\n<li>UN-Habitat for whom the organization writes the: State of Africa\u2019s Cities Report Eastern Africa\u2019s Section];<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eco-Build Africa has collaborated with leading organisations in research, architecture and urban development globally. These include: the Harvard Graduate School, University of Manchester (UK), University of Florida, Gainesville, ETH Zurich, SKL \/ SALAR (Sweden), Woodrow Wilson Centre (USA), African Centre for Cities, UCT (South Africa), Hetrzog de Meuron (Switzerland), Urban Think Tank (USA), YMR (USA \/ South Africa), Sync Consult (South Africa, amongst others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"divider\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-Build Africa is a multi-disciplinary organization that works on environmental architecture, sustainable urban development and housing. In these areas the organization bridges knowledge development and application by focus on three areas: Basic and applied research Environmental Design &amp; Construction Community Development. The organization works closely with the public sector, the private sector and communities. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecobuild-africa.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}