UNOPS South of Haiti Post EQ Assessments with the Ministry of Public Works 

UNOPS South of Haiti Post EQ Assessments with the Ministry of Public Works 

On August 14th, 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake ruptured the southern peninsula of Haiti, a mountainous region covered by a tropical forest. From October 2021 to March 2022, Miyamoto, in partnership with UNOPS and the Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC), held a massive damage and repair assessment project on a scale and timeframe never witnessed before across three southern departments: Sud, Grande Anse and Nippes. To achieve this schedule, the team trained 400 Haitian engineers in the advanced techniques and technologies that would be used in the assessments. One such technology was a top-of-the-line digital platform that utilized QR coding to categorize all the assessed structures in the damage index; the QR codes allowed homeowners to download this information with ease. Using this field app, the engineers gathered real time results on cellular enabled tablets, containing not only the damage index of a structure but as well as the repair methods and material quantity needed to bring said structure back to a safe and livable condition. In an astonishing five months and amidst difficult terrain, the teams managed to assess a total of 179,861 buildings. This program also revealed that 70 percent of schools were damaged and unusable, but the majority of these schools could be repaired better and reopened to students and faculty quickly. 

Client

Haitian Ministry of Public Works

Year

2022

Scale

179,861 Buildings

Location

Haiti

UNOPS South of Haiti Post EQ Assessments with the Ministry of Public Works 

On August 14th, 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake ruptured the southern peninsula of Haiti, a mountainous region covered by a tropical forest. From October 2021 to March 2022, Miyamoto, in partnership with UNOPS and the Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC), held a massive damage and repair assessment project on a scale and timeframe never witnessed before across three southern departments: Sud, Grande Anse and Nippes. To achieve this schedule, the team trained 400 Haitian engineers in the advanced techniques and technologies that would be used in the assessments. One such technology was a top-of-the-line digital platform that utilized QR coding to categorize all the assessed structures in the damage index; the QR codes allowed homeowners to download this information with ease. Using this field app, the engineers gathered real time results on cellular enabled tablets, containing not only the damage index of a structure but as well as the repair methods and material quantity needed to bring said structure back to a safe and livable condition. In an astonishing five months and amidst difficult terrain, the teams managed to assess a total of 179,861 buildings. This program also revealed that 70 percent of schools were damaged and unusable, but the majority of these schools could be repaired better and reopened to students and faculty quickly. 

Client

Haitian Ministry of Public Works

Year

2022

Scale

179,861 Buildings

Location

Haiti

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