• Accredits academy’s master plan winner
SULULTA – The African Leadership Excellence Academy (AFLEX) is working to be an African leadership hub through well-equipped and efficient facilities.
This was noted yesterday during the award ceremony of winners of the competition for designing the master plan of the academy as per the international standard.
At the event , AFLEX Chief Mihret Debebe (PhD) said that the academy has been exerting utmost efforts to offer effective and efficient service and meet the continental standard as well.
The Chief further stated that the academy, which covers 50 hectares of land, is the first in its kind in the country and currently serving about 300 people with full accommodations and training facilities.
Moreover, addressing the remaining works in the academy’s design and structure, he said it covers merely 10 to 20% of the service provision.
“This hub would be playing a paramount importance in delivering full-fledged facilities to the emerging and existing senior leaders with well-furnished bedrooms, training rooms, dining and ballrooms which help create efficient leaders in the country as well as continentally,” he noted.
“The center is believed to ease the hassles and inconveniences that occur during service delivery,” the chief remarked.
“Considering the absence of full-fledged packages in leadership training centers in the country, we are working to finalize the remaining tasks to host more than 1,500 people with convention, library, museum and others in the coming five to ten years,” he added.
Also, we have planned to engage in community programs aiming at developing more recreational centers, parks, guesthouses and other packages which help enhance the trainer’s comfort and privacy.
Ethiopian Architects Association President Habtamu Getachew on his part stated that they have been evaluating the master plan designs which are presented by competitors for the last four months.
He said this competition was organized under the auspices of the Ethiopian Architects Association to meet UNESCO’s construction and design rules.
He said that 14 competitors took part in the competition and Tilon Consulting Architects and Engineers won the prize.
Boards of the academy, management of the master plan and others were in attendance during the accreditation program.
BY ASHENAFI ANIMUT
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD 27 AUGUST 2023
