A surgical center in rural Uganda runs entirely off-grid.
Solar power. Teak screens, woven Nile reed ceilings, clay tiles made by local potters.
This is what African architecture looks like when planned with intention.
📍 Kyabirwa Surgical Center, Uganda
Design: George K. George
Dear @KCCAUG There’s a growing time bomb in Kampala and its outskirts that if nothing is done, could blow at any time in the near future and that’s none other than fiber internet Cables/wires and poles.
You see, I am a firm supporter of fiber internet as it offers cheaper and stable internet connectivity to businesses but also hundreds of homes making our internet connection and experience amazing. But this is coming at a very huge cost.
As internet providers increase, and so their need to reach more customers or users. This has forced them to extend their services to every part of the city and with this each company is using their own poles and wires or cables.
Their wires are making the city look a mess. It’s getting ugly every other single day. Before we know it, one spot will have like 20 poles including those of Electricity. incase of any fire outbreak, these could fuel its spread to homes causing more damage.
I am not an engineer to offer better technical advice but in my opinion as a farmer, I think these companies need to collaborate. One company does the installation of poles and they both or all use the same pole to transmit their wires or cables.
They all come together and pay for maintenance fee, among others.
Secondly, they could do underground wiring. I know we haven’t grown so much as city and a country at large but these are what we call necessary evils. The internet is here to stay. We out to find ways of dealing with everything it comes with.
With underground cables, surface cables will be so much limited and we shall ensure a safer city for us all.
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