Diamniadio, a Senegalese smart city

Diamniadio, a crossroads city located 30km away from Dakar, in the department of Rufisque, was chosen by the Senegalese authorities in 2012 to relief the capital of its economic activities and administrative services and respond to the demographic urbanization dynamics. 

Engineers and urban planners put their skills to good use to make Diamniadio an urban space of a new kind: a smart city.

The new administrative city includes smart buildings gathering 16 ministers with an occupant capacity of 10,000 civil servants.
Société Générale de banques au Sénégal supported the financing of SHPEREX, the ministerial center.

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In addition to decongest the city of Dakar and reduce the rental burden of the State, the project of the ministerial spheres aims to improve the service provided to users of public services. Besides the spheres, Diamniadio will also host the United Nations House and the headquarters of the oil companies that will complete the range of these infrastructures. The financing is a mode of public-private partnership called BOT ("Build - Operate - Transfer"): at the end of a rental period, the Senegalese State will be transferred ownership of buildings.

The opening of Diamniadio and its new equipment is giving a new wind to Dakar, especially when it comes to business and event tourism.

To prevent Diamniadio from becoming a juxtaposition of services set up in separated departments, the designers have planned to spread more than 40 000 accommodations of different standing to cement the neighborhoods of the city together, based on a concept of social and functional diversity.

Since August 2013, the 40km-long electrified connection of the Train express régional (TER) is one of the major means of transport expected to serve the new city and its airport.