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Growth pole · horizon 5–8 years

University and services growth pole

Make a campus the engine of an urban pole: education, housing, services, entrepreneurship.

Programme modelReplicable model: assumption-based figures, to be adapted to each territory.

The vision

A well-designed campus transforms a secondary city: an inflow of students and faculty, demand for housing and services, local entrepreneurship. The programme organises that dynamic instead of enduring it — campus, neighbourhoods, transport, energy and incubation designed together.

Programme components

Campus & facilities

Teaching buildings, laboratories, library, sports facilities.

Student life

Halls of residence, catering, health, soft mobility.

Networks

Energy (incl. solar), water, sanitation, campus and district digital.

Knowledge economy

Incubator, business links, continuing education.

Expected impacts

  • Increased intake capacity and quality of training.
  • A residential and services economy around the campus.
  • Skills retained in the regions.

Anchor — where our legitimacy on this model comes from

Documented anchor: technical design supervision of the ENS Maroua campus — 25 buildings on 63 ha (GEQUIPS assignment for EGIS Cameroon, FCFA 79 m of services, reference sheet available).

From model to programme

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