Reconstruction of the school of Dessources in Leogane
Ubertini Christian
Factsheet, English, 4 pages
Summary
The massive earthquake of 12 January 2010 damaged or destroyed nearly the 80% of the schooling infrastructure in the affected departments, highlighting dramatically the poor construction quality in the country, the absence of norms and standards for public building and the incapacity of the authority to regulate the system. As a result, the MoE, froze, for more than 2 years, all permits for new permanent school construction mainly because they were not in position to guide and control the reconstruction process up to adequate standards. In the meantime, the MoE and the Ministry of Public Works, issued revised architectural and structural norms which set new and ambitious standards, especially for the seismic resistance, based on seismic maps taking into account an event with a return period of 2’500 years, meaning for Haiti a max. PGA of 8.4G. In order to meet these structural standards, a complete rethink of the usual construction technique was necessary, especially for 2 storey buildings largely needed in the urban and peri-urban affected areas.
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Construction | Construction Techniques | Storm resistant | Educational buildings | Earthquake resistant