Pardon me if this was discussed before. I was listening to NPR (I think) last week and they were doing a story on Haiti and in the background noise I clearly heard someone pounding nails into plywood. That got me thinking. How to re-build in Haiti? Where is the plywood comming from? Would it be hurricane proof? Seems like reinforced concrete is best for hurricanes (Florida)and proper wood frame is best for earthquakes (California) but what’s best for Haiti. If we (us taxpayers) do it wrong we have wasted the money. What’s the right way?
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Trade part of Michigan with good abandoned houses for the island move the islanders there, and create a new state on the island. Then the US could have a new building boom.
Seriously, I don't know what is best.
Properly designed and constructed reinforced concrete would work well. Properly designed sticks and plywood, would also work well. The key items are properly designed and constructed.
Seems the whole place was built with undesigned, unreinforced concrete, and improperly designed and constructed masonry. Whitch is a huge part of the current problem, because it all fell in on top of the people when the quake struck.
fastest cheapest and utilizes non skilled labour are aluminum forms. Wall Tie make and sell systems for third world applications. A crew can stand, pour and strip a house a day.
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Mark
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