Parceling

My colleagues and I are currently working on parceling subdivisions for LS-MFEZ. Since the land use plan as well as the layout plan for the phase 1 development were done by a consulting company, our department are expected to design the subdivisions only for the phase 2 - 4.

I am enjoying the project fully because the subdivisions that we are recently designing would be built in the real world. So far, we are somewhat done with parceling for the phase 2. We should be able to be done with it soon though (hopefully!).

It, however, requires a lot of patience as we have to keep adjusting the parcels little by little. For instance, it took us about 3 working days to finish parceling for the industrial area just in the phase 3. Because of the task, I am more interested in physical planning per se.

The project is supposed to be done sometime after 2030. I hope to see the economic zone in the real world as soon as possible :)

LS-MFEZ presentation

I needed to give a presentation about the master plan for LS-MFEZ in front of the board members and some stakeholders of the project at the special technical committee meeting today.

As this project needed to be approved by the planning board as soon as possible, my colleagues and I had worked quite hard on preparing for the presentation and creating the GIS maps that were relevant to the topics; development phases, land use, infrastructures and service lines.

It was actually my first presentation that I needed to deliver in Zambia, so I was nervous a bit until this morning. However, since there were some dramas before the meeting, such as no projectors to show the powerpoint slides, the plotter was not working properly to print out 27 maps for the board members, etc, I somehow felt so confident to deliver the presentation. In fact, I enjoyed explaining about the project to the stakeholders who were there at the meeting.

It turned out that people in the meeting liked my presentation as well as my boss and colleagues. They told me that I did good job today and should do another presentation for IDP report when we go on a business trip at the end of this month or early next month. Can't wait :)