Georgetown : The Ministry of Public Works and Communication opened its 2nd annual engineering conference, at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), where presentations were made with the aim of bringing engineers up to date with new technology and innovations in the field.
“Engineering like any other activity is constrained by society, the available resources and the state of development,” Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said, during his presentation. He added that one of the concerns that affect all activities in Guyana is the ability to keep people satisfied with the compensation; however this should be reflective of what is produced by society. In this regard, he encouraged young engineers, particularly those who have stayed in Guyana, to concentrate on the work that has to be done.
Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn in his address noted that following a personal examination of the presentations, being shared, they highlighted unique challenges inherent to Guyana’s development matrix from the perspective of infrastructure rehabilitation, maintenance and development necessary to ensure improvements and sustainable livelihood. He explained that these challenges include a large populated sovereign space, dense coastal population, associated economic and infrastructure activity, below sea level, soft or poorly consolidated foundation soils, a muddy mobile coast, formidable mountains to the south and west.
Benn emphasised that the engineering sector is continuously altered by the loss, or poaching of professional, technical and administrative skills to the north and issues of global warming which are associated with rising sea level and climate change.
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