iLima Digital Foundary will officially launch the AI-driven Afrika Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP) at the 36th Annual AUHF Conference this week. The conference will focus on drawing in investors, developers, and professionals to discuss and debate market growth and opportunities in green development, infrastructure building, services, job and inclusive economic growth. The ACIP AI platform will be demonstrated for the first time in public and features an open digital platform offering many new alternative construction technologies to improve the lives of communities through efficient delivery of affordable housing to South Africa and Africa. The conference theme centers around “Investing in the SDGs – Finding a Market Opportunity in Affordable Housing”. ACIP addresses a number of the Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030 with the main focus on increasing resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies.

The 36^th annual African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) (www.AUHF.co.za) Virtual Conference & AGM (www.AUHFconference.com | 02-06 November 2020) will connect hundreds of senior African and international investors, financiers and developers online under the theme, “Investing in the SDGs: Finding a market opportunity in affordable housing, says its organiser and host Kecia Rust, of the AUHF Secretariat and the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa.