Month: July 2018

Arc. Chris Pobee Abbey, is a distinguished architect and urban planner. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Post Graduate Diploma in Architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,, Kumasi, Ghana, and a Master’s in Urban Planning from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. He has also completed a Certificate in Performance-Based Contracting from IHE (Delft), Netherlands, and actively participates in global housing and urban development conferences.

Arc. Pobee Abbey is a member of the Council of the Ghana Institute of Architects and serves on the Boards of the Architects Registration Council and Shelter Afrique Development Bank. He has played a pivotal role in developing critical documents such as the Ghana Housing Policy (2015), Ghana Building Code (2018), and Building Regulations (2022). His contributions include formulating housing sector profiles and strategic documents to decarbonize the construction industry. Arc. Pobee Abbey’s expertise in planning schemes and standard designs has significantly advanced housing programmes under his ministry’s purview.

Jack Ngarambe is an architectural engineer by training, holding a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degree from Kyung Hee University in South Korea. He currently serves as the Director General of Urbanisation, Housing Development, and Human Settlement at the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure. In this role, he oversees and coordinates national urbanisation and housing projects in collaboration with other governmental institutions and numerous global development partners.

Before his tenure in the Rwandan government, Dr. Ngarambe was a research professor at Kyung Hee University. His research primarily focused on sustainable built environments , building physics, and control. He was actively involved in significant urban sustainability projects funded by the National Research Fund of Korea (NRF), the Korea Energy Agency (KEA), and the Korea Energy Technology Evaluation & Planning (KETEP). Additionally, he lectured on innovative technologies in resilient and sustainable built environments, net-zero energy and passive building designs, statistical theories, and research methodologies.