Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ, Niamey, Niger: structural design in an international development context

Abstract

Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ, a school in Niamey, Niger, was MHA Structural Design's winning entry to the Structural Awards 2023. The project won an award for its use of sustainable local materials and for enabling positive social impact. For this article, the IStructE's Humanitarian and International Development Panel spoke to the firm's structural engineering design lead for the project, Marco Conti. The case study explores key considerations and appropriate technological approaches to structural design in humanitarian and international development contexts.