"Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering."
Peter Haas is working through AIDG, the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, to teach Haiti's builders modern building and engineering practices. He says: " We haven't heard about why the buildings failed. After all, it was the buildings, not the earthquake, that killed 220,000 people, that injured 330,000, that displaced 1.3 million people, that cut off food and water and supplies for an entire nation."
To read or hear his speech go to:
TED talk: Peter Haas and Haiti's disaster of engineering
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