Everything You Need to Know About Eko Atlantic - The Dubai of Africa

Everything You Need to Know About Eko Atlantic
The Dubai Of Africa
Hello Displorers, welcome to another informative video presented to you by Displore. It is no secret that we all enjoy the experience of spreading our legs along a white sandy beach while sipping a glass of naturally pressed juice as a beautiful breeze from the ocean blows our hair and watch in the horizon the most exotic neighbourhoods Dubai can offer. But then, it is definitely a secret that most of us cannot afford traveling to Dubai to have that dream vacation but then, Eko Atlantic seems to be filling that void for us. Imagine a megapolis rising, Atlantis-like, from the sea with boasts thriving business and residential districts to help transform not just a city but an entire country. The Eko Atlantic project in Lagos, Nigeriahas become one of the most dazzling and most discussed construction developments in the entire world which intends to build a city shooting afloat the Atlantic Ocean.In this video, we shall look into everything you need to know about the exotic Eko Atlantic commonly thought to be the Dubai of Africa.
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Eko Atlantic, officially Nigeria International Commerce city, also known as Eko Atlantic City, or the initials E.A.C. and E.A., is a planned city of Lagos State, Nigeria, being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Upon completion, the new peninsula is anticipating at least 250,000 residents and a daily flow of 150,000 commuters. The development is also designed to help in stopping the erosion of Lagos State's coastline.The city adjoins Victoria Island district of Lagos city, and the Phase 1 area of Lekki to the north, while the entire Western, eastern and southern borders is a coastline. Eko Atlantic is expected to rise as the next generation of property on the African continent; having a total of 10 districts, spread across a land area of approximately 10km2, the city will satisfy needs for financial, commercial, residential and tourist accommodations.
Eko Atlantic development is being carried out as a Public–private partnership, with private companies and investors providing the funding, whilst Lagos State Government is a strategic partner, with the support of the Federal Government. The Contractors are China Communications Construction Group, a company that works in the field of marine dredging and landfill operation. Consultants are Royal Haskoningwith traffic and transport expertise and ar+h Architects. South Energyx Nigeria Ltd., a subsidiary of the Chagoury group, was specifically created to undertake the development. Testing of the sea defence system took place at the DHI Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, where models were successfully tested for one-in-a-hundred-year ocean surges, and one-in-120-year, one-in-150-year and one-in-1,000-year storms.
Overview
One hundred years ago, the area of land on which the new city will be built was beach, but time and Mother Nature had erased all but a trace. The coastal erosion had become so serious that Victoria Island, a suburb of Lagos, was in danger of serious flooding, and it was feared that those who lived near the water’s edge would be forced to leave their homes. Steps were taken to protect the shoreline, but then a grander plan emerged: to reverse the erosion, reclaim 10km² of land and build a clean and eco-friendly city that would help ease the burden on Lagos, the biggest city in Africa’s fastest-growing economy, and offer employment and opportunity to its 17 million citizens. Work began in 2006, dredging the first few thousand of what will eventually be approximately 140 million tonnes of sand, making it currently the biggest land reclamation site in the world.
The Eko Atlantic City project received global attention in 2009, as the Lagos State Government and its private sector partners on the Project, South Energyx, received the Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Certificate.Eko Atlantic will satisfy needs for financial, commercial, residential and tourist accommodations, with infrastructure in line with modern and environmental standards. These standards will offer the city’s residents water, waste management, security and transportation systems. The city will also have an independent source of energy generated specifically for the city. The Eko Atlantic city master plan indicates that the city will contain seven districts which include Harbour Lights, Business District, Marina, Downtown, Avenues, Eko Drive and Ocean Front.

The Progress Report of the City
As of May 2009, while the project was still in its dredging phase, about 3,000,000 cubic metres have been sand-filled and placed in the reclamation area, while about 35,000 tonnes of rock have been delivered to the site. In certain parts of Bar Beach, the land being reclaimed can already be seen. Dredgers are working around the clock to fill the site with sand.

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