Trent World has embarked on a new journey of designing a world-class smart city in an effort to bring the global community closer to SDG 9; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.
The construction engineering work has been assigned to Trent Construction, while Trent Engineering focuses on the general engineering and innovation side. The new concept of smart cities is expected to revolutionise the real estate industry and improve the way the global community interacts with its environment. Urbanisation has always been poised to interfere with the natural ecosystems as town expansions have always destroyed the natural habitats and food resources for thousands of animal species. This has been worsened by the global population increase, which has created a greater demand for living space and industrial sites, while demanding agricultural production growth on the same piece of land. This calls for new innovations that allow growth within the existing residential and industrial sites without much growth in terms of the consumed space. Growing the already existing areas in terms of efficiency without geographical expansion will help improve the utilisation of land. That means an agricultural piece of land will have to double its harvest without an increase in the size of the utilised land. It is the same approach Trent World seeks to use in expanding cities five-fold, without any expansion in the size of the used land.
Trent World seeks to improve land utilisation in an effort to leave the jungles uncleared so as to improve the supply of air, sustain life on land and sustain life under water by leaving wet lands undisturbed. That means the current cities have to improve in terms of land utilisation without expanding in terms of geographical distribution.
The smart city concept is expected to deal with the overpopulation problems that continue to haunt our natural resources and ecosystems as it is becoming a challenge to accommodate the continuously growing population. A city accommodating 1 million residents is supposed to increase its capacity to 2 to 3 million, utilising the same piece of land. Farmers will have to improve their yields without extending their farms.
The current population increase means more green belts have to be destroyed in an effort to expand the residential and industrial sites in order to support the growing population. This has been much of a problem in countries with very large populations like China and India. Countries with large industrial sites like Japan and USA continue to battle the challenges for expanding their industries while striking a good balance with the growing demand for residential area, the proposed smart city concept will ensure the coexistence of the industrial growth with population growth on the same piece of land.
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