Engineer: "This was not an earthquake disaster"
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
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Architectural Engineering Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Design Engineering Ethics Engineering Mechanics General Engineering, Engineering Science Geological Engineering |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Visuals |
| Media Type: | Image |
| Author(s): |
Katie Baker
Organization: Wired Blog |
| Description: | Blog with photos of lecture given at UC Berkeley. "The audience at last Tuesday's UC Berkeley lecture given by Eduardo Fierro, one of the first U.S. earthquake engineers to visit post-quake Haiti, collectively cringed as Fierro showed slide after slide of haphazard columns, brittle frames, and slipshod rods and joints. "This was not an earthquake disaster," Fierro said. "[This] was caused by people that didn't know how to use codes, that built things in bad shape. These were the people that caused the tragedy." Fierro, a Peruvian native who has worked around the Pacific rim, arrived in Haiti within two days of the earthquake to investigate the destruction caused to the country's built environment. From Port Au Prince to smaller cities like Leogane, from cathedrals to schools to power plants, Fierro found that the same architectural mistakes were made over and over again. |
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| Keywords: | Haiti earthquake, earthquakes, seismic construction |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data (c) Design a system, component, or process (f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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| Publication Date: | 2010 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/engineer-this-was... |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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