Minutes of the General Assembly of AFCCA
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The African Federation for construction contractors associations had convened its 24th Executive Bureau and the 14th meeting of the General Assembly in its headquarters in Cairo – Egypt , on 15-6-2019.
Eng. Hassan Abdel Aziz , President of AFCCA welcomed the members and he pointed that there are some indicators for plans in all African countries to have modern infrastructure to help building long high ways , services buildings and power stations etc ,and that will help increasing the entre- action commerce among the African countries . and all this will need big activities from the African contractors and he asked the members to adopt the idea of developing the African companies to compete with foreign construction companies .
The General Secretary of AFCCA presented report about the activities of AFCCA :
Eng. Hassan Abdel Aziz President of AFCCA and the General Secretary visited Republic of Mauritius according to an invitation from the ARFRICAN UNION OF ARCHITECTS CONGRESS – MAUIRITIUS which was held on 26-27 June 2018 , where the Congress discussed the role of the architects in helping the construction Industry in Africa and its relations with the local companies to enable them competing with foreign companies. They met also President of the Mauritian association for construction and some responsible of the Government, and discussed the projects and works in the plan of development of the country. Eng. Hassan Abdel Aziz invited the minister of Infrastructure and land transport to visit Egypt , and he came to Cairo and visited some of the national projects in Egypt and he expressed his admiration of the modern Technical methods which proved that the African local companies can do all the construction works themselves.
Eng. Hassan Abdel Aziz received an invitation from the Portuguese Construction Association to visit Portugal. He visited the Portuguese capital with the General Secretary of AFCCA and some Egyptian construction companies on 26 to 30 September 2018 , they discussed the ways of cooperation between the Egyptian and African companies with the Portuguese side and they signed a Memorandum of understanding between them , to take advantage of the European experience.
