Events Industry retools to build hospitals in Africa
The venture applies HOTT3D’s design, construction and project management expertise to building medical facilities within days
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 8, 2020/ -- A Cape Town-based exhibition builder, together with an event organizer,
offer to work with governments and private sectors across Africa to
rapidly build hospital infrastructures and shelters in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Afrika Umoja, an initiative initiated by Cape Town temporary
architecture specialists, HOTT3D with pan-African energy event organizer Africa Oil & Power (AOP) (www.AfricaOilAndPower.com), is tackling the COVID-19 threat in its home city and across Africa.
Afrika Umoja will aim to build temporary hospitals, clinics and homeless shelters to combat the coronavirus, in partnership with government, the private sector and local entrepreneurs.
The venture applies HOTT3D’s design, construction and project management expertise to building medical facilities within days, in potentially
any location across Africa. AOP is supporting Afrika Umoja through
marketing, communications and outreach to its network of partners.
“The coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on companies in the
events industry globally, but these highly skilled people and
organizations can be redeployed. “Instead of designing and building
complex exhibition and conference infrastructure, we are now able to
very quickly design and build temporary emergency medical
infrastructure” says Liam Beattie, Managing Director of HOTT3D.
Afrika Umoja is in discussions with provincial authorities and is ready
to build at short notice in South Africa and internationally.
“It’s exciting to be able to work with HOTT3D, as we have done for
exhibitions & conferences in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan
and South Africa for years, on providing national and provincial
governments with solutions for the challenge of building high quality
medical facilities and accommodation, wherever they are on the
continent,” notes James Chester, Acting CEO of AOP.
Afrika Umoja invites provincial and national governments and firms
interested in building or funding temporary medical buildings and
shelters to contact the team via Twitter via @AfricaOilPower or email.
The organization is also keen to welcome more vendors and suppliers to
join the project, whether they are based in Cape Town or further afield
Contact Katie Brock at k.brock@africaoilandpower.com if your organization is interested in working with Afrika Umoja to
build medical or accommodation facilities fast in your community, or if
your organization is interested in providing funding.
Contact Liam Beattie at liam@hott.co.za if you are interested in working with Hott3D and the other vendors and suppliers as part of the Afrika Umoja project.
Link: Africa Oil & Power (AOP)
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