– the anchor for civil engineering design, construction and project implementation
This article, first in the series, intends to introduce readers to a very important subject area in civil engineering. The content will be addressed under the following headings or titles:
What is Geotechnical Engineering?
History of Geotechnical Engineering
Who...
The evolution in payment systems has changed from trading with physical commodities like shells, gold and livestock; to fiat money like paper notes and credit cards that in itself, has no intrinsic value. Money has taken many forms - driven by the economic circumstances and technological developments of the...
Multi-Passionate: a word that has become synonymous with “confusion”, “jack of all trades; master of none”. But the truth is Multi-Passionate is a human attribute with a definition. A few years ago, it was coined as a term to describe “An individual who excels at more than one interest...
“Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness...
There is nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. – Jason Fried
Dear Readers, I wish to crave your indulgence to repeat this article which was first published in December, 2015….
PREPARING FOR THE CLOSING BELL
For financial institutions, December is a period for re-strategizing...
In the early weeks of November this year, a team of young enterprising engineers set off to do something unconventional. Their talents and dexterity would now be put to the test. Equipped with the idea and learning from the old success stories, they believed it could be done. Indeed,...
The Dangote Group of Nigeria, one of the pre-eminent industrial conglomerates in Africa, in pursuit of its pan-African development and emancipation strategy, on November 23, 2017 formally launched its newest economic development industrial project, the Dangote Cement plant in Mfila, in Congo-Brazzaville.
With this US$300million , 1.5 million metric tonne...