Media
- May 15, 2013
- DloHaiti Taps VC Funding as it Brings Haiti Clean Water and Jobs
Investors in dloHaiti’s Series A round included firms that focus on social ventures: Leopard Capital, IFC InfraVentures (an investment arm of the World Bank Group) and Netherlands Development Finance (FMO), along with Miyamoto International.
- By Wall Street Journal Blogs
- March 23, 2013
- Cheaper way to quake-proof
Kit Miyamoto, who leads Miyamoto Impact, said this was shown in Christchurch where most of those killed in the quakes lost their lives in the CTV building, a big, heavy concrete building that had structural problems. And he believes the threat in Wellington is greater than it was in Christchurch.
"The Christchurch event was big but it only had five seconds of strong motion. This place has the potential to have motion like that for 30 seconds."
- By The Dominion Post
- March 20, 2013
- NZ Catholic Church gets proactive on quake strengthening
Chairman Kit Miyamoto said it was important people and companies with larger property portfolios took a wide look at their buildings before they decided on a strengthening plan. An approach such as the archdiocese was taking was a "total risk management programme", rather than a reaction to individual cases, he said. "To me the archdiocese programme is one of best practice."
- By The Dominion Post
- March 14, 2013
- California Fitness to open downtown by late summer
California Family Fitness revealed a proposal last September to build a new 32,000-square-foot club at 1012 K St. This week the company said it definitely will proceed with the $3.5 million project.
- By Sacramento Business Journal
- January 21, 2013
- Shwedagon Pagoda
An international earthquake engineering expert, the president and CEO, Dr. Hideki Kit Miyamoto from Japan said that "the Shwedagon pagoda and the multi-story at the Yangon should be use a high performance earthquake engineering approach to the design to reduce steel weight and the need for concrete grade beams with the use of fluid viscous dampers for resistance of the earthquake."
- By The Messenger
- January 21, 2013
- Miyamoto sees tremendous growth opportunities in Asia
"We are talking to many developers [in Thailand] right now, and we are going to work with commercial buildings, both new and existing ones like bank headquarters and schools. Hospitals are also very dangerous buildings," said Mr Miyamoto.
- By Bangkok Post
- Haitians rebuild Haiti: 105,000 people impacted
PORT-AU-PRINCE – As the third anniversary of the earthquake approaches, Haiti Public Works (MTPTC), supported by Miyamoto and various partners has repaired and strengthened 14,952 damaged households in the region, which has affected more than 105,000 people.
- By Structural Engineering Magazine
- Le Rivage to become region's first Westin Hotel
- By Sacramento Business Journal
- Sacramento-area firms boost revenue with Bay Area work
- By Sacramento Business Journal
- Kit Miyamoto wins AIA Honor Award
- By Structural Engineer Magazine
- Gimme shelter New, possibly last affordable-housing complex opens in downtown Sacramento
- By Sacramento News & Review
- Quake danger is over-estimated, says expert
- By The Dominion Post
- Miyamoto Impact interview: Certainty Sought on Risk
- By The Press
- Miyamoto Named Top Player by ZweigWhite
- By The Zweig Letter
- A $20M Restoration - Expert says Cathedral could be restored
- By infonews.co.nz
- Christchurch's soft soil red zone and CBD can be rebuilt on
- By infonews.co.nz
- H. Kit Miyamoto: All About Disaster Mitigation
H. Kit Miyamoto, a structural engineer and an expert in seismic-resistant design, has enormous experience bringing engineering relief to the scenes of disasters and helping local leaders restore safety and order amid danger and chaos.
- By ENR Magazine
- Repairs to Quake Damaged Houses in Haiti Provide Safety to Thousands, Many More Still Living in Deteriorating Conditions
More than 35,000 Haitians are now living in homes it has repaired, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) has announced. However, two years after the 2010 earthquake more than 500,000 people are living in dangerous houses that had been damaged by the earthquake and are liable to collapse.
- By NY Times
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