Formation technique

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• Les maçons-tôle d’Ouroubonon motivés par la technique VN
  30 avril 2018, par Chloé Adloff

  Suite à la campagne de sensibilisation au programme d’AVN, initiée fin janvier dans le cadre de l’initiative SE4ALL (lire la news), une dizaine de maçons-tôle d’Ouroubonon (Region Boucle du Mouhoun) ont manifesté leur intérêt à se former à la technique auprès d’un artisan maçon VN local.
  Une équipe d’AVN Burkina est donc venue les rencontrer afin de les informer davantage sur le parcours de formation à la technique VN et les différentes promotions mise en place pour concrétiser au mieux leurs ambitions. (...)

• AVN au colloque Terra Education III
  14 juin 2018, par Chloé Adloff

  Début juin, Noureddine Aichour, Responsable du Pôle Formation d’AVN a participé au colloque international Terra Education III présentant les dynamiques actuelles en termes d’enseignement supérieur, de formation professionnelle, de recherche, et de diffusion des savoirs en matière d’architecture de terre. Cet événement regroupait de nombreux professionnels engagés dans la promotion de l’architecture de terre, majoritairement issus du monde universitaire.
  Sélectionnée par le comité scientifique du (...)

• Construction of the Matam Town Hall in NV has started!
  29 January 2018, by Chloé Adloff

  The construction site of the Matam Town Hall using the NV technique was officially opened last week. The building will have a total surface area of 561 m2 and will be realised in two stages, the first, comprising 367 m2 to be completed this season. It is the first of several NV buildings in the NV Fouta Project.
  After the completion of the architectural studies by Al Mizan leading to the public tender document, the market was won by the firms Habitat Moderne /Rich Man. This is the first (...)

• The experiences of NV trainees in Benin using the intensified training modules
  26 January 2018, by Chloé Adloff

  In January, Samuel Rodrigues, international coordinator of technical training at AVN, came to Djougou to run a training module for nine trainees from Benin and Burkina Faso. This module forms part of the intensified training actions being implemented by AVN to accelerate and improve training of NV masons. Four technical aspects of roof construction were covered in this module: the slope of the roof, and the fitting of gutters, the plastic waterproof sheets, and the parapet slabs. The (...)

• AVN’s Training Centre reinforced to deliver intensified training
  7 December 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  At the start of this season, AVN has started the first collaborative workshops to develop training tools and materials as part of the reinforced training activities in place since 2016. This brought together the various actors involved in training, including over 60 actual and potential trainer masons, 15 regional and 8 national AVN staff, and the international coordinators from the Training Centre.
  Organised locally with 6 one-week sessions in 3 countries, these workshops aimed to: bring (...)

• Benin: the first construction site of the season kicks off
  13 November 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  On November 3rd last, NV masons from Benin started the first construction site of the season in Vanhoui, in the Djougou region.
  As part of a Cement Mason Promotion [1], the construction of this vault of 8 linear metres involved the training of two apprentice masons, as well as the initiation of two new artisans as potential Trainer Masons. As a result of their advancement at the end of the last season, these two NV artisan masons will help in the training of new apprentices, accompanied by (...)

• NV Fouta Workshop: a Nubian Vault project for public markets in Senegal
  1 November 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  For three days at the end of October, the NV Fouta teams and their technical partners met various actors from the local construction sector at the Maison des Yvelines in Ourossogui, during a planning workshop for the construction of the Hôtel de Département (Town Hall) of Matam.
  The aim of this first workshop was to accompany and advise these actors in the preparation of a Call for Tender document, as this was the first NV project to involve the procedures for publicly funded works in (...)

• Mali: A Nubian Vault curriculum at the Centre de Formation Professionnelle of Tominian / CFP-Tom
  22 March 2018, by Chloé Adloff

  Fousseny Dangnoko, Director of the Centre de Formation Professionnelle of Tominian (San region) and Thomas Granier, co-founder and CEO of AVN signed a partnership agreement in February for the development of a pilot training module in the Nubian Vault technique.
  This new option for NV artisan masons, including technical and entrepreneurial training both on-site and in the Centre, is a sign of significant progress in the development of the NV sector in Mali and, in the adaptation of the (...)

• AVN’s construction methods inspire cement masons from Ouroubonon
  30 April 2018, by Chloé Adloff

  Following the AVN awareness-raising campaign, launched in late January as part of the SE4ALL initiative (read our update here), about ten cement masons from Ouroubonon have expressed an interest in receiving training and learning the craft from a local AVN mason.
  A team from AVN Burkina travelled to meet them. They gave them further information about the AVN training course and the various offers they can take to realize their ambitions.
  Seven of them signed up for the cement mason (...)

• Formation aux métiers de la filière construction VN
  5 janvier 2018, par Zhou YU

  La composante formation professionnelle placée au coeur du programme d’AVN et permettant l’émergence et la densification de l’offre de construction du marché VN, s’inscrit dans une dynamique locale de transmission de savoir-faire, largement intégrée aux économies et aux cultures africaines. Elle permet l’apprentissage de métiers à forte employabilité, ne nécessitant pas de compétences académiques avancées, au bénéfice principal des populations rurales sur un marché largement informel.
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