Prof. Rexford Assasie Oppong

Professor


Dept: Architecture
Head
Department of Architecture
Faculty of Built Environment
College of Art and Built Environment
KNUST, Kumasi
GP Address: Ak-448-6461, Third Floor Room 2

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Research Areas/Interests

1. Architectural Identity, Metamorphosis and Disorderliness 2. Ecological Aesthetics and Architecture 3. Architecture and Fractals 4. The Built Enviro...~more


Grants/Funds Awarded

FINANCIAL/GRANT/AWARD/SPONSORSHIP/MATERIAL AND RESOURCES MOBILISATION

2018: Won a €35,550 Erasmus+ funding Grant for KNUST and University of Northern Denmark for Staff and Student Partnership and Mobility

2018: Won a €26,220.00 HE-STT-T Grant for KNUST and Technical University of Munich (TUM) Staff and Student Partnership and Mobility

2018: Mobilised G?1,000.00 to support Department’s Year Book of the Department of Architecture-

2017: Won a €26,000.00 HE-STT-T Grant for KNUST and Technical University of Munich (TUM) Staff and Student Partnership and Mobility

2017: Won a €25,000 Erasmus+/DAAD scholarship/mobility Grant for 3 students and 3 staff of Architecture - KNUST

2017: Won a $2,600 Climate Impacts Research Capacity Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) Implementation fund /Association of Commonwealth Universities Grant to organize early female career researchers and administrators workshop at KNUST

2016: Mobilised G?13,912.00 from organizing the first ever workshop for Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants as Chairman of Procurement Committee, KNUST, http://www.legonconnect.com/workshop-on-procurement/

2017: Mobilised G?2,400.00 to fully sponsor seven (7) Teaching Assistants, one (1) MPhil/PhD student and some Senior Members to the International Conference on Infrastructure Development in Africa held from 12th to the 14th April, 2017 at KNUST as part of my personal efforts to help build research capacity in of the Department of Architecture

2017: Mobilised G?1,200.00 to support “Building Resilience through African Urban Culture and Infrastructure Development” International Conference on Infrastructure Development in Africa held from 12th to the14th April, 2017 at KNUST

2016: Mobilised Convocation members of KNUST donate in total G?103,900.00 to KNUST Foundation as Chairman of Council of Convocation of KNUST http://www.admissionsgh.com/kwame-nkrumah-university-of-science-and-technology-news-and-happenings/

2015: Won a £30,000 British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Scheme Grant to investigate the architecture of 20th Century Ghana with Professor Iain Jackson of University of Liverpool School of Architecture

2015: Facilitated the procurement and delivery of Four (4) volumes of books entitled – HABITAT: Vernacular Architecture for Changing Planet (2018) to the Main University for use by staff and students of the KNUST. The books were sold to the University at discounted prices due to my personal involvement as a contributor/co-author of the book

2015: Mobilised the Donation of Twenty (20) books entitled: Urban and Sanitation – Our Habitat, Our Health (2013) to be used as reference materials in the Main University and College of Art and Built Environment Libraries of KNUST, Kumasi.

2014: Mobilised/Facilitated the Donation of One hundred and thirty-nine (139) copies of Nursing Standard Journal published by the Royal College of Nursing(Great Britain) (RG Journal Impact: 0.08) (2011-2014 edition) to be used as reference materials in the Departmental Library of Nursing in KNUST, Kumasi.

2011: Mobilised/Facilitated the Donation of twenty-two (22) containers of 3,000 volumes of assorted books novels and journals as well as two used computers to the KNUST with a total shipment cost of three thousand two hundred pounds (£3,200). The two computers were specifically given to the KNUST Junior High School Library. (See, TECHInfo Newsletter - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, http://knust.edu.gh/downloads/36/36245.pdf; Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) NEWS http://www.gbcghana.com/index.php?id=1.738291)

2007: Mobilized $10,000 UNESCO funded Project – “Capacity Building For Protection, Management and Valorisation of World Heritage Related to Earthen and Indigenous Architecture Project” as a Member/Secretary of the Project.


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