DELALI GADZEKPO

Delali Gadzekpo, a Ghanaian Architect trained in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, received the BSc. Degree in Environmental Design, in July 1980 and subsequently the Post-graduate diploma in Architecture, in March 1983. He received the MSc. in Architecture in November 2019, from the same institution.

After graduation, he started practice whilst on National Service, as an Assistant Architect, with the City Engineer’s department, a subsidiary of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, responsible for the approval of building designs.

Having passed the professional examination of the Ghana Institute of Architects, he got appointment with the Architectural and Engineering Services Corporation (AESC) in Accra and was seconded to the technical department of the Ministry of Works and Housing (Technical Services Centre, Labone) where he practiced for two years.

On re-posting to AESC, he was assigned to the Hospital projects division, where he designed, supervised and administered the contracts of hospital projects in the Greater Accra region till September 1989, when he resigned to take up a new appointment with the W.V.S.Tubman College of Technology in Liberia, as a lecturer in the Architecture department.

He returned to Ghana in 1990 and started practice in a private capacity as a freelance Architect.

In 2009, he was appointed an adjunct lecturer in the department of Architecture at the, then Central University College, Miotso campus. His employment was converted to full time in 2013, where he is till date.

Highest degree ………………………………….. MSc. Architecture

Area of Specialization ………………………….. Architectural Design

Construction Technology

Landscape Architecture

Areas of Research

1. The School Garden, as a pedagogical tool.

2. Waste management at Central University, Miotso campus

3. Waste paper recycling in Central University, Miotso campus.

4. Basic sustainability in Ghanaian homes.

5. Appropriate gardening and basic landscaping in Ghanaian homes

E-mail address: delgazie@yahoo.com

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