CPS: Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Empowering Urban Developments in Tanzania

Sebastian Dietzold, CEO at CPS Tanzania, an innovative and sustainable urban developer known for the Fumba Town development in Zanzibar, explains what sets CPS apart from the competition.

“Our focus has been on Fumba Town, and from the beginning, to build homes and urban centers in a sustainable way. That means two things for us; we have implemented green infrastructure based on therma culture principles in our cities, towns and developments, and we have implemented regrowing and decarbonizing construction technology. We know today that construction and construction-related sectors are responsible for 38% of carbon emissions, and we understand that we have to reduce carbon emissions heavily to reach the climate goal of not increasing the global temperature by more than 2 degrees. We have committed from the beginning to build technology that allows that, which is what I meant by doing things right. We have put a lot of research into the building of timber technology which has many advantages. For instance, timber is the most reliable and oldest construction material we have, it is the only regrowing building material we have, and timber is modern. There have been a lot of developments in the last 10 or 15 years that use engineered wood products made from timber such as CLT (Cross-Laminated Timber), which is considered the concrete of the future. We are one of the first, if not the first, in East Africa to build multi-story homes with CLT here in Zanzibar. We started with timber-framed houses in Fumba and now we are moving more and more to CLT to replace the concrete parts of buildings with renewable technology like CLT. Besides being a very innovative, climate-friendly and regrowing natural building material, it is also super durable, it is extremely beautiful and has a lot of positive effects”, says Sebastian Dietzold.

ABOUT SEBASTIAN DIETZOLD: Sebastian Dietzold grew up in Tanzania and lives there now, after 15 years in Germany. He studied civil engineering in England and Germany and specialised in real estate investment. During his time in Germany, Sebastian worked for major companies such as Deutsche Bank, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He founded CPS with his wife in 2012, with the vision to design and implement sustainable and empowering urban developments in Africa.

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