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Sustainable Village In Ghana
Village Design
Department of Electrical &
Systems Engineering
The village consists of 8
neighborhoods which has
250
houses.
Each
neighborhood has 5 handdug well water systems
located on the corners and
at the center of the
neighborhood. The empty
area at the center will be
used depending on each
neighborhood's needs.
Group 1
Team
Deger Atay
Pete Eschenbrenner
Gizem Goryakin
Ed Levinson
•Institutions
Neighborhood Design
Advisors
Peter Scott
Walt Sobkiw
Special Thanks
Dr. Barry Silverman
David Pietrocola and their team
Plan of a Housing Unit
Village consists of 2000 houses and an
additional of 150 buildings for shops,
administrative offices, health center,
police office, post office, sport center,
church, library and primary school.
Each house unit is 50 square meters with two
bedrooms, a sitting room and bathroom built.
Waste Management
1
• Sufficient Clean Water for Drinking and
Agriculture
• Hand Dug Wells
• Rainwater Catchment System
2
• Main Source of Village Employment/Revenue
• Harvest Grains, Cocoa, Fruits, Vegetables, etc.
• Livestock Housing Facilities
• Personal Garden for Each Home
• Sanitary Waste Management Systems
• Dry Pit Latrines (In every house and
public building)
• Designated Garbage Dumpsters
Energy
Communication
• Photovoltaic cells on rooftops
• Gas generators
• Enough electricity for 4 hours per day (more
than rural average power availability in Ghana)
• Includes 5 community centers with
internet access, television, and
telephones
• One post office
• In a cell phone coverage area
The Model
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•Human Development
Health care
• Provide medical transportation
• Life and health insurance
• Health education programs
Security
• Ghanaian Police Code
• Police station and officers
• Town-watch initiative
Education
Transportation
The model design portion of our project
can be divided into four stages.
First stage
•Define goals and constraints of the project.
•Research the subsystems of the village
model.
Second stage
•Look at the alternatives and choose the
option in each subsystem that
- Best satisfies the project requirements.
- Meets Ghanaian cultural standards
and combines the chosen subsystems.
Third stage
•Test and verify the model.
•Make necessary changes if needed by
conducting additional research and making
improvements where necessary.
Fourth stage
•Start cost and risk analysis of the model.
•Start financing and marketing the village
model.
• Efficient network of roads within village
• Plan allows for roads connecting village
to other parts of Ghana
Agent Based Modeling
•Computational model that simulates actions and
interactions of autonomous individuals in a network
•Assesses effects on the system as a whole.
•Purpose: to program plausible agent behaviors and
interactions.
•When run as a simulation, these actions produce
trends and patterns similar to those observable
through the analysis of real-world systems.
Agent Properties
• Provide education access for all children
• Primary, junior secondary, and secondary
school
Agent Physiology Levels
Name : HAM073
Pla: Plan_Daily Life
Step: AtWprl{}
•Economy Model
Investments & Loans
Demo Times
Thursday, April 23, 2009
11:30 am – 12 noon
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Water Systems
Agriculture Systems
ABSTRACT
Until the past 15 years, Ghana was
plagued with corrupt and military governments.
As a result, the nation suffered economically.
Recently, Ghana has begun to rebuild its
infrastructure in the hope of becoming a more
stable and peaceful nation. Although Ghana has
many natural resources and an abundant labor
force, much of the nation remains in poverty.
In completing this project we plan to
provide the means and resources to achieve
economic stability in the Volta Region. In order
to do so, we developed a realistic model of a
sustainable village in Ghana. The criteria of
sustainability used concern environmental,
economical, social, and cultural aspects of the
village. Given these criteria, we aimed to
implement solutions to allow for the continuity
of all systems and institutions comprising the
village. This model village is able to show the
means for a given region in Ghana to prosper,
including access to energy and electricity, clean
water, food production, a health care center,
security, education centers, effective waste
management, housing, and transportation. This
model has been constructed using Agent-based
Modeling (ABM). ABM allowed for the creation
of an environment representative of the actual
village to be constructed in Ghana. From this, it
was possible to demonstrate both positive and
sustainable influences that our village model
will have in Volta region.
According to the United Nations, over the
next 25 years, over 2 billion people in the world
will add to the growing demand for housing,
water supply, sanitation, and other urban
infrastructure services. The ultimate goal of our
project is to implement actual versions of our
model throughout the world to help meet this
demand.
Alternate systems are analyzed and after taking consideration stakeholder requirements as well as cost
benefit analysis these systems are decided to be implemented.
•Upfront costs to build village
• Future Monthly costs to maintain infrastructure
• Households pay a monthly fee to village
administration
• Villagers have access to loans for businesses or
housing
Employment
Name : HAM057
Pla: Plan_Daily Life
Step: AtWprl{}
• Commercial
• Civic
• Agricultural
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