Chinwe Ohajuruka
Chinwe Ohajuruka is a green Architect born in Nigerian. She divides her time between Nigeria and the United States for projects. She became the Sub-Saharan African Laureate for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards in France in 2015 for her contribution in affordable green houses and social entrepreneurship.
Chinwe Ohajuruka
- Name
- Chinwe Ohajuruka
- Birth Name
- Chinwe
- Born
- 1960
- Birthplace
- Nigerian
- Occupation
- Architect
- Awards
- Cartier Women's Initiative Awards
- Nationality
- Nigeria
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Chinwe Ohajuruka is a green Architect born in Nigerian. She divides her time between Nigeria and the United States for projects. She became the Sub-Saharan African Laureate for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards in France in 2015 for her contribution in affordable green houses and social entrepreneurship.
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Chinwe Ohajuruka (born 1960) is an architect, of Nigerian nationality. Honours include Cartier Women's Initiative Awards.
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• Name — Chinwe Ohajuruka • Birth Name — Chinwe • Born — 1960 • Birthplace — Nigerian • Citizenship — Nigeria • Occupation — Architect • Awards — Cartier Women's Initiative Awards
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Ohajuruka is the CEO, Architect, Sustainability Consultant and Project Manager for Comprehensive Design Services, a company that designs and builds solar affordable housing; a company she founded in 2012. Her company produces housing using a technique called Bio-Climatic Design, that uses design strategies and engineering techniques that are suited to the local climate, and incorporated solar powered wells. She moved to the U.S. from Nigeria in 2003.
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Ohajuruka was named a "Great Energy Challenge Innovator" and awarded a grant by National Geographic for her project in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Affordable housing with renewable energy for Nigeria. She also received a Science and Technology award from the Chenving Foundation. She was awarded a Cartier Women's Initiative Award. Her company has also received grants from the USAID and Western Union Foundation.
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- 1.The African Diaspora: Beyond Remittance. Africa.com. 10 December 2019.
- 2.Oluikpe, Nkasiobi. The World Is Waiting For The Rise Of African Women –Ohajuruka. Independent. July 20, 2018.
- 3.Nigerian Core Team.
- 4.Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2015 : l'Afrique renouvelle son doublé. Le Point. 19 November 2015.
- 5.Ilevbare, Justice. Moving Nigerians from slums to their own green homes. The Straits Times. June 16, 2018.
- 6.Science and Technology: Chinwe Ohajuruka.
- 7.National Geographic. The Great Energy Challenge: Stories and solutions for powering the world.
- 8.Ilevbare, Justice. One company's plan to create affordable green housing in Nigeria. The Christian Science Monitor. June 14, 2018.
- 9.EnviroNews Nigeria. Affordable, green housing designer may be decorated. 20 September 2015.
- 10.Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. December 2023.
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