Saison 2017-2018

Articles

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• Mali: education and rural at the heart of AVN’s programme
  25 September 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  On September 15th last, AVN-Mali was invited by the Prefect of Dioïla Circle to take part in International Literacy Day, in the presence of M. Mohamed Ag Erlaf, Mali’s Minister of Basic Education, Literacy and National Languages.
  Despite a visible improvement over the last 15 years, the literacy level of Mali’s rural populations is estimated at less than 40%. The lack of suitable infrastructure is one of the principal causes; this is why AVN is trying to raise awareness about NV construction (...)

• AVN Burkina at the SEED Discussion Forum
  27 September 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  On September 20th, National Coordinator Boubacar Ouily, and Communications Officer Maimouna Sawadogo took part in the SEED Discussion Forum in Ouagadougou on innovatory business solutions promoting green growth and sustainable development in Burkina Faso.
  Bringing together a varied panel of participants, this Forum was an opportunity for AVN to meet other operators from the private sector whose entrepreneurial activities favour the implementation of ’green’ solutions: clean energy, (...)

• Climate Chance: the mobilisation of non-state actors for the climate
  30 September 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  The meeting of non-state actors concerned about the climate - Climate Chance - took place last September in Agadir (Morocco), bringing together 5000 participants of 80 different nationalities from NGO’s and territorial collectivities. For this second meeting particular emphasis was placed on the state of climate actions in favour of African countries, and, more widely, other countries of the global South.
  Even though Africa is badly affected by the effects of climate change, it is also the (...)

• A new office for AVN-Ghana
  30 October 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  AVN-Ghana’s new office in Garu was inaugurated at the end of October, in the presence of around a hundred official guests (representatives of the District, regional chiefs, NGOs and other local actors). Over a year after the start of the first NV projects in this region, the construction of this office formalises the promising deployment of the NV market in the North-East of Ghana.
  Several of the noteworthy guests were invited to speak during the ceremony: they each confirmed their support (...)

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• The NV Maison des Yvelines winner of the low-carbon Green Solutions Award
  20 November 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  November 15th last, during the COP23 meeting in Bonn, AVN received the low-carbon building prize from the Green Solutions Awards / Construction21, for the Maison des Yvelines project in Ourossogui, northern Senegal.
  Financed by the French Département des Yvelines, this exemplary building of 370 m² was constructed by a local NV enterprise - Richard Somda’s firm Habitat Moderne – and overseen by the NGO Le Partenariat and AVN, with the support of local technical partners (l’Agence Régionale de (...)

• 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 (...)