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Engineer Team Deploys to Haiti

(Taken from a USACE press release.) In support of the national response efforts led by the U.S. State Department, USAID, and U.S. Southern Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has deployed an initial team of four engineers in […]

U.S. Structural Engineers begin on-site damage assessments in Haiti

Published 20 January 2010-Homeland Security Newswire U.S. engineers are going to Haiti to study the earthquake and its ramifications for structural engineering; the structural engineers emergency response committee (SEER) of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) — the […]

Haiti Quake: A Plan for Reconstruction

Cameron Sinclair Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network Posted: January 17, 2010 03:27 PM For those not used to working in disasters the first week is chaotic, filled with stories of heroism and despair. The first […]