Video: A Forgotten Disaster: Haiti's 2021 Earthquake | Week 2 - Jérémie
Miyamoto International continues its inside look into the Haitian reconstruction efforts, carrying on its path throughout southwest Haiti after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck on Aug. 14, 2021, leaving an estimated 650,000 people in need of aid. Arriving at Jérémie, join us as we keep on with our assessment of the extensive structural damage on schools, hospitals, bridges and other key public buildings and structures.
Urban Renewal Fund Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary Connecting Communities for Sustainable Urban Renewal: Innovations and Inspirations Cum "Community is Renewing" Community Online Exhibition
Image 1: Online Exhibition on the 10th Anniversary of Urban Renewal Fund HONG KONG SAR - 23 September 2021 - The Urban Renewal Fund was founded in 2011, with "People First, Districts Based, Public Participatory" as its conception of urban renewal, serving citizens affected or dislocated by urban renewal projects, and promoting heritage preservation and revitalisation of local districts. s the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Urban Renewal Fund approaches, it celebrates the occa...
New ASCE Press Book Aids Stakeholders on Excavation Projects
Reston, Va. –Every day in the United States construction projects involve thousands of excavations. The new ASCE Press book, Underground Utilities for Construction Practitioners and Homeowners offers guidance for stakeholders to reduce damage to underground utilities during excavation. Authors Ahmed Al-Bayati and Louis Panzer stress that safe excavation is a shared responsibility. In this publication, they provide an overview of the location process that is generally followed across the United S...
Video: A Forgotten Disaster: Haiti's 2021 Earthquake
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Haiti on August 14, leaving an estimated 650,000 people in need of aid. Although this story has all but disappeared from headlines, the fact remains that over 120,000 structures, including homes, schools, and churches, were destroyed, with many more suffering serious damage. The majority of these structures are in remote, hard-to-reach areas with little hope of assistance reaching them anytime soon. Get an inside look at the Haitian reconstruction effo...
Earthquake Structural Engineers Arrive in Haiti's Earthquake Disaster Zone
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Earthquake structural engineers and disaster recovery experts from Miyamoto International arrived in southern Haiti’s disaster zone on Monday to assist with damage assessments, urban search and rescue, and recovery strategies after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the island on Saturday. The epicenter of the quake was approximately 125 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Jeremie, Les Cayes, and Baradères were three of the most severely damaged urban a...
Death toll of powerful earthquake in Haiti soars to 1,297
A woman carries her child as she walks in the remains of her home destroyed by Saturday´s 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn) LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching storm. Saturday’s earthquake also left...
New ASCE Manual of Practice 144 Provides a Framework to Plan and Design for Hazards
Reston, Va. – Natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms, affect a large portion of the world’s population. Infrastructure resilience and sustainability are critical system characteristics to prepare and endure as a society. ASCE’s new book, Hazard-Resilient Infrastructure: Analysis and Design, MOP 144, provides guidance and underlying framework for creating consistency across hazards, systems, and sectors in the design of new infrastructure systems and in enhancing the...
Stantec completes infrastructure improvements for Quay Sarasota
The project positions the area for the next phases of waterfront development in downtown Sarasota, Florida SARASOTA, FL - TSX, NYSE:STN: Leading global design firm Stantec has completed infrastructure improvements in Sarasota, Florida as part of Quay Sarasota—a new mixed-use waterfront district positioned on a 14-acre downtown site on Sarasota Bay. The project includes roadway and infrastructure improvements to serve the private mixed-use development as well as a roundabout at the intersect...
Novel studies to inform moat management at Tilbury Fort
© English Heritage English Heritage has appointed specialist marine consultancy ABPmer to help determine how best to manage water-levels in the distinctive twin moats around Tilbury Fort, to include how they might be used to enhance biodiversity. Tilbury Fort protected London’s seaward approaches from the time it was built, between 1670 and 1685, until the Second World War. After travelling from an earlier fort on the present site to a hill in nearby West Tilbury, Elizabeth I deliver...
Growth of the Life Science and Consumer Goods Market Sectors Offers Development and Repositioning Opportunities for Underutilized Commercial and Industrial Real Estate
Montroy Andersen DeMarco designed the repositioning and redevelopment of a 150,000-sq.-ft. former office building in East Hanover, NJ into the U.S. headquarters and laboratories of Givaudan Fragrance, the largest and most technologically advanced facility in the North American fragrance industry The project encompassed structural reinforcements and expanded MEP systems to accommodate research processes and equipment. Photo by Paul Warchol Design, real estate, and construction expert...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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