“Haiti was not a natural disaster,“ says TED Fellow Peter Haas: “It was a disaster of engineering.“ As the country rebuilds after January’s deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas’s group, AIDG, is helping Haiti’s builders learn modern building and engineering practices, to assemble a strong country brick by brick.
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