Technical Tours

A selection of technical tours will be offered. Please book your tour when registering to the conference.

TT 1 - New City of Tamnsourt

Time: Thursday 19 May, 14:30-16:30
Price: 30 EUR
Price includes transfers.
Number of participants: 30 people.

This new city was designed and programmed for specific goals: reduce congestion in the city of Marrakech, polarize the urbanization of areas that are peripheral expansion, economic activity and create a nest several habitat types and equipment to create a complete and harmonious city.
This city will increase the supply as a fundamental component of the new approach to the fight against unhealthy housing and urban upgrading, it will also bring a solution to housing needs felt in Marrakech, generating an offer of 58,000 homes and will, moreover, to ensure a better living environment for the people in relocating 15,000 residents, currently housed in unhealthy tissues.
Similarly, 160 acres of neighborhood facilities and over 200 ha of afforestation and green spaces will be landscaped (planted over 100,000 trees over 40,000 palms).
Planning and archetecture of Tamnsourt revolves around a multi-urban centrality and is characterized by a network of roads and green spaces important, adapted to the scale of this new town.

TT 2 - Hydraulic Basin Agency of Tensift

Time: Thursday 19 May, 14:30-16:30
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 people

The Agency of the Tensift River Basin was founded in 2000. Its principal missions are: evaluation, planning and the development of water resources; coordination of the integrated water management; preservation of the public water domain; and control and prevision of risks and extreme events, like draughts, water shortages and floods. The agency is in charge of preparation of the water resources master plan (PDAIRE) for the basin.  authorizations.

TT 3 - Urban Agency of Management and Building for Tensift Haouz

Time: Friday 20 May, 10:30-12:30
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 persons

Given that the urban planning is seen as a strategic axis in the National Initiative for Human Development (NIHD) and an important pillar in the housing policy and the fight against poverty, the Urban is a main tool following government guidelines for opening new areas for urbanization. The Urban Agency introduces new tools to ensure a balance between the city and its suburbs, to support investors, and to control urban sprawl. It also aims to create a land reserve to compensate malfunctions experienced by the city of Marrakech because of growing urban pressures. To achieve this goal, the Urban Agency conducted in coordination with various stakeholders and actors in urban planning several projects to ensure the availability of new new areas for urbanization. Most of the projects are covered by urban planning documents inside and outside the urban perimeters.

TT 4 , TT 8 and TT 9 - Marrakech Cadastre and Land Conservation Facility

Time: TT 8 Thursday 19 May, 14:30-16:30
         TT 4 Friday 20 May, 10:30-12:30
         TT 9 Friday 20 May, 15:00-17:00
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 people for each tour.

The main Institution dealing with land conservation and mapping is the National Agency for Land Conservation, Cadastre, and Mapping denoted ANCFCC. At the local level (municipalyties and provinces), the ANCFCC has its Facility ensuring the performance of its mission colsely to the users.
The Facility is composed of two services, which are the Land Conservation Service and the Cadastral Service. The Land Conservation is responsible for registering land ownership, publishing the real rights, and ensuring land registration process to preserve land rights.
The Cadastral Service is a technical unit that meets the needs of land registration in terms of boundary delineation and cadastral mapping. It establishes, updates, and maintains the legal cadastre and national cadastre. It provides users with cadastral information linked to surveying activities carried out on behlf of the government, public institutions and local communities. It Contributes to the achievement of land management programs, particularly the consolidation.

TT 5 - RADEEMA : Autonomous Bureau of Management and Water and Electricity-Marrakech

Time: Friday 20 May, 15:00-17:00
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 people

RADEEMA is an autonomous agency of the city of Marrakech responsible of water and electricity management . the core business of the agency is covering an area of 24 000 hectares and a population of 950 000 inhabitants. Its major concern is to support the significant development of sewerage service of the city of Marrakech, ensuring security of supply and proper management of water and electricity services.
The environmental and ecological component is at the center of the action taken by RADEEMA including treatment and reuse of wastewater. So the main actions have focused on strengthening basic infrastructures, securing water supplies and electricity, fight against pollution of the receiving environment and the protection of the environment and the widespread access to and services provided within the framework of the national initiative for human development.

TT 6 - The Regional Office of Agricultural Development of Haouz

Time: Friday 20 May, 15:00-17:00
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 people.

The Regional Office of Agricultural Development of Haouz, is a public and autonomous institution runing under the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries. The Office is responsible for promoting agricultural development in the area of its action according to the agricultural policy adopted by the Government of the Kingdom. It covers the Wilaya of Marrakech, the province of El Kelaa Sraghna and part of the province of Azilal as a total as 663,000 ha. The ORMVA Haouz puts its human and material resources and its body of knowledge available to investors in the agricultural sector. The region has important assets, making it a magnet for important agricultural Investors.

TT 7 - Regional Directorate of Water and Forest

Time: Friday 20 May, 15:00-17:00
Price: 30 EUR
Number of participants: 15 people.

Visit to the Regional Directorate of Water and Forest, see more information of the agency: http://www.eauxetforets.gov.ma/fr/index.aspx).