Business News of Sunday, 29 June 2014

Source: FRANK OWUSU OBIMPEH

Water and construction show opens on July 2

Honourable Collins Dauda,the Minister of Water Resources, Works & Housing will be the official guest of honour for the prestigious water and construction trade show in Sub-Saharan Africa currenly to be hosted by Accra,on 2 july

Once again, the successful UK company ACE Event Management will be staging the Water Africa and West Africa Building & Construction 2014 exhibition and seminar programme at the Accra International Conference centre during 2-4 July 2014. Over 80 exhibitors from around the world will be taking this prime opportunity to display their goods and services to the West Africa market and to Ghanaians in particular.

The opening will also see the start of two days of seminars devoted to the most important topics of the day facing providers of infrastructure for the water and sanitation sector and organizations in the building and construction industry.

Places will be available to enable interested practitioners in the Water & Wastewater and Building & Construction sectors to take part in the seminar programmes, which will be run in co-ordination with the Ministry of Water Resources, Works & Housing. Places in the seminar programmes will be limited.

The importance of this leading trade event to the country and the region can be gauged by the support it regularly receives.

The exhibition and its accompanying seminars are endorsed and supported by: · Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing · Ghana Water Company Limited · Water Resources Commission · Water Research Institute (CSIR) · Community Water and Sanitation Agency · Ghana Institution of Engineers · Ghana Institute of Architects · Ghana Institution of Surveyors · Ghana Real Estate Developers Association.

All of these bodies will be making presentations during the opening ceremony or at the seminars, during the first two days of the exhibition.

The main sponsors of Water Africa and West Africa Building & Construction 2014 are Interplast, Inefly, Nesstra Ghana, ABB, Hilti and Suvinil Paints, DEM and Wacker.