Diano-Gentile  Engineering Group

REAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR AFRICA

DIANO-GENTILE ENGINEERING GROUP (DGEGroup), is a recently established multidisciplinary company involved in applied science and engineering based on years of R&D and Innovation.
DGEGroup’s projects are presented for development cooperation and funding with Italy’s Mattei Plan in eligible African countries for financing and supporting sustainable housing, infrastructures, technology transfer, local manufacturing, vocational training, and capacity building programs.

DGEGroup experience and know-how provides innovative, scalable, locally fabricated housing technologies that reduce material cost, labour and time. These are desirable for
healthy and seismic resistant housing while creating African new employment by transferring manufacturing and engineering know-how for local architectural capacity.

Africa’s treasure of natural resources and demographic growth of human capital are fundamental to sustainable socio-economic development based on innovative, inclusive and sustainable industrial programs.The existing housing deficit crisis in Africa (1), is exacerbated by the scarcity of skilled labour, high costs of materials and antiquated building systems.

DGEGroup experience with Military projects in Africa, and partnerships can tackle housing insurmountable task with technology transfer of proprietary innovative seismic-resistant building components.These to be produced with local materials available nationwide comprising innovative light gauge steel elements for structural framing and truss fabrication, geopolymer fiber cement wall board for cladding, thermal and noise insulation panels produced with local
agricultural grown fibers. DGEGroup know-how will also provide new technologies of photovoltaic building integrated panels (BIPV), for green energy adaptable to rural housing demand, schools, medical centres, including potable water and wastewater filtration facilities, together with avant-
garde waste-to-energy plants for urban centres.

DGEGroup and National Military Forces as development-cooperation partners with Italy’s Piano Mattei for Africa can provide for:
● Low-cost housing
● Construction and infrastructure development
● Local manufacturing and technology transfer
● Construction training and apprenticeships
● Sustainable and energy-efficient buildings
● Renewable energy and BIPV
● Waste-to-Energy facilities

Where domestic construction generates seven times more economic benefit than foreign contractors, each home built engages 2.8 man-years of local employment, construction employs 3 man-years per house and building 200,000 homes generates 600,000 jobs. All within a Real Economy model with Industrial Development and State-Owned Holdings as a
Living Model of Economic Sovereignty.