Port au Prince, Haiti

About Port au Prince, Haiti

Integrated sustainable infrastructure calculations and designs for a 235-hectare post-disaster redevelopment masterplan following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

• The infrastructure was in very, very poor condition prior to the earthquake, and was completely destroyed in the earthquake event.
• The designs contemplated and analyzed three different scenarios for redevelopment: block, corridor and entire core.
• The infrastructure plans incorporated rainwater harvesting, water supply treatment, package wastewater treatment plants, recycling of wastewater, quantity take-offs and cost estimating to analyze and compare the three scenarios.

Challenges

Complete earthquake devastation of a third world capital city that was already in very poor condition in terms of infrastructure and governmental systems. Citizen distrust of municipal or centralized systems due to past failures.

Solutions

Scenario modeling and analysis so that both government and individual property owners could approach reconstruction in a meaningful way, and depending on available funds. Though block-by-block or corridor-by-corridor reconstruction was more costly than a complete one-time reconstruction project, those scenarios were preferred due to their smaller increments.

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