Ing. Magnus Leslie Lincoln Quarshie, president of the Ghana Consulting Engineers Association (GCEA), has urged Ghanaian business owners to create sustainable organizations that may last for more than a century.
Additionally, he urged consulting engineers in the nation to create organizations that value good governance, provide job security for workers, support rotational positions, and enable young engineers to contribute their cutting-edge ideas to the long-term viability of the company.
At the Ghana Consulting Engineers’ annual general meeting and conference on 2022 urban environment sustainability on Thursday in Accra, Ing. Magnus made these recommendations.
Under the theme: “Sustainability: Promoting Circular Economy and Governance”, Ing. Magnus Lincoln Quarshie explained that in Ghana, most of businesses lack basic systems that could help them to build sustainable enterprises.
Most businesses in Ghana die with the exit of the owners because of lack of succession plan and sustainable culture.
The keynote speaker for the occasion, Dr Eric Twum, CEO of Institute of Environmental Assessment, said a circular economy was a model of production and consumption, which involved sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible.
He further said the circular economy was a systems solutions framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and waste.
He also hinted that in Ghana, one-third of food produced for human consumption goes to rot or waste.
He, therefore, challenged the Ghana Consulting Engineers to design products for durability, reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling to keep materials circulating for as long as possible.
Other speakers who spoke on Promoting Circular Economy at the conference included: Arch. Esinam Tagboto, Ing. Bernadette Dzifa Agbefu, Ms Keziah Quarshie and was moderated by Ing. Kwabena Bempong.