{"id":8144,"date":"2025-11-02T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/?page_id=8144"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:13:34","slug":"mr-nguyen-cong-thanh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/en\/mr-nguyen-cong-thanh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Nguyen Cong Thanh"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"section bg-gradient dark has-parallax\" id=\"section_1061686795\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  \" data-parallax-container=\".section\" data-parallax-background data-parallax=\"-5\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"section-bg-overlay absolute fill\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-bg -->\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-349822736\">\n<div class=\"col pb-0 small-12 large-12\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n<h3 class=\"ss-title uppercase\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\">Mr. Nguyen Cong Thanh<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-content -->\n\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#section_1061686795 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n#section_1061686795 .section-bg-overlay {\n  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);\n}\n#section_1061686795 .section-bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: 1093;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section section-bg-pattern\" id=\"section_1185472655\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-bg -->\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-1246388919\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-1246388919 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1488693434\">\n<div class=\"col pb-0 medium-3 small-12 large-3 medium-col-first\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_374785578\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mr-nguyen-cong-thanh-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#image_374785578 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col pb-0 medium-9 small-12 large-9\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n<h4 class=\"text-center ss-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"text-gradient\">BIOGRAPHY<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n\t<div id=\"gap-1847510382\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-1847510382 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Mr. Thanh was trained in the 70s of the last century by the former Soviet Union. He has 12 years of teaching experience at the Hanoi University of Civil Engineering; 6 years working at the Hanoi Water Supply Program, supported by government \u00f2 Finland; 14 years as a senior operation officer in the Urban Development Unit and Head of the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank in Vietnam; and nearly 20 years working for other international organizations (BTC, GTZ\/GIZ, DANIDA, MFA (Finland), etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The projects Mr. Thanh has participated in are mostly in the fields of urban development, urban and rural water supply and sanitation, and water resources management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In those projects, Mr. Thanh has undertaken many different tasks, including technical, institutional arrangement for project implementation, organization for operation and maintenance after the project ends, documentation lessons learned from each project to share with stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-2124477154\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-2124477154 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<h4 class=\"text-center ss-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"text-gradient\">TOPIC<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">PROPOSAL FOR APPLYING THE SPONGE CITY MODEL IN URBAN RAINWATER DRAINAGE ADAPTABLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN LY VAN LAM WARD, CA MAU PROVINCE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-center ss-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"text-gradient\">ABSTRACT<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Using a specific example on proposing a sponge city model in Ly Van Lam ward, Ca Mau province, the presentation describing the process of selecting technical essential solutions \u2013 \u201cgreen\u201d drainage infrastructure of the sponge city and integrating them into urban planning, different land use functional groups, to reduce impermeable surface areas (corrugated iron roofs, asphalt, concrete, etc.) in the urban area, creating conditions for retention, infiltration, and regulation of rainwater to help reduce peak flows, reduce the flow coefficient when calculating \u201cgrey\u201d drainage infrastructure. This helps reduce investment and operating maintenance costs, while creating conditions for regulating and reusing rainwater for purposes that do not require high water quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presentation also comparing with traditional rainwater drainage and flood prevention options to highlight the economic, environmental and social benefits of sponge city model<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-1125748541\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-1125748541 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-content -->\n\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#section_1185472655 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8144\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}