Our last two days in Haiti were less eventful; especially compared to the first 7 days. We had tried to set-up some building assessment activity and some meetings for Sunday but those plans fell through. We instead used the opportunity to consolidate our observations and start working on the next steps.
We also used the opportunity to explore Port-au-Prince and Petionville a bit more. When we returned from Petionville very late in the evening on Sunday, it was amazing how ...
Posted by Matthew Barnard on April 1, 2010 9:36 PM
Day 5
Highlights:
1. The seismic performance of the buildings constructed with the gingerbread architectural style continues to amaze. We studied four adjacent buildings, of which one was a house of the gingerbread style, and the gingerbread house was the only one standing or habitable.
2. The Portail St. Joseph area had frequent failures of brick URM's. This is the greatest concentration of brick URM's that we have seen so far.
3. One wheel barrow of recycled rebar = 40 ...
Posted by Matthew Barnard on March 26, 2010 9:41 PM
Day 4 part 2
by: Matt Barnard
Highlights:
1. This is the day 4 blog for Mike and Matt. We were split from Henry and Mark for half of the day and have provided this entry to capture our rather different experience.
2. Riding in a taptap; a whole new way to get around town.
3. Visited Leogane and Grand Goave. Both cities are much closer than Port-au-Prince to the epicenter.
4. Concrete is often weak and can simply be ...
Posted by Matthew Barnard on March 26, 2010 8:21 PM
Day 1 Report on Haiti Earthquake by Degenkolb Haiti Team
Yesterday morning, I was running the annual ACE Trades Day event in Whittier. After 24 hours and a beautiful 35,000 foot view of the Bahamas, I am sitting with our team contemplating what we just saw after our first drive around Port-au-Prince. And it was unbelievable.
Flying into Port-au-Prince, you knew this was going to be different. Even from the air, you could see the ...
Posted by Matthew Barnard on March 22, 2010 8:43 PM
