Rebuilding Haiti – Why Steel Buildings Are the Answer

Haiti has recently experienced a horrific natural disaster. A massive earth quake rocked the country from it foundation, literally. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured and just as many people are now living in unsafe tent cities. How did this happen overnight? Basically it is a combination of lax building codes, poor construction techniques and inadequate building materials. Haiti is actually lucky that a major Hurricane has not caused this type of destruction previous to this earthquake with the type of structures that have been built.

So what is the answer for Haiti? What structures should Haiti use to rebuild their country? The answer is simple. Steel buildings are the obvious choice. There is no other structure on the planet that has a cost to strength ratio like a steel building. When building with steel, you get a very strong structure and at very economical price. Sure a wood or concrete structure can be build strong, but at high cost comparatively speaking. Pre-fab metal buildings can be designed to withstand hurricane force winds, high seismic loads, blizzard snow storms and even resistant to fires. There are steel buildings in every corner of the world and this is not by accident. The high popularity of steel buildings are due to the great strength, high versatility and economical costs.

What about engineering time, fabrication time, and construction time? There is no other structure in the world that can beat a metal building in these areas. There is sophisticated software that is used to design and engineer metal buildings with speed and incredible accuracy. Today’s machinery used to fabricate the steel parts are all Computer Numeric Controlled, eliminating any mistakes or errors. Time needed for construction is by far the fastest compared to conventional structures. All the parts of a steel building are pre-designed to fit together. There is no cutting, measuring, welding or guess work in the field. A small crew of erectors can put up of over 8000 square feet of building a week!

Nowadays, building with the environment in mind is of utmost importance. Our planet must be respected and our actions carefully chosen. When building with steel, you are helping to preserve our environment. Not only is a metal building 100% recyclable, it is partially made for recycled steel. There are even paint finishes that are Energy Star Rated for their energy saving characteristics. These metal building colors are even warranted for up to 40 years! There are no other structures in the world that can make these claims.

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Safe Homes for Haiti in Under 60 Days

MBMI steel buildings created a proposal to rebuild Haiti with metal buildings. Building with steel buildings will be economical and extremely efficient, MBMI calculated four hundred 800 sq. foot units in less than 60 days. MBMI created two options to rebuild option 1 is fifty 40×40 units 2 homes per unit, which will equal one hundred homes with 800 sqft. in each. Option 2 is twenty-five 40×80 units 4 homes per unit, which will equal one hundred homes with 800 sqft. in each. MBMI has also included solar panels for the green building movement. It has been calculated to complete the job in under 60 days!

MBMI Steel Buildings is Donating $200.00 to Haiti for Every Building Sold

MBMI Steel Buildings donates $200.00 from its metal building sales to speed up Haiti’s recovery from the world’s 2nd worst natural disasters. The money is being donated to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund which was established to help in the rebuilding of Haiti. MBMI wants this initiative to help inspire others to donate.

The donation will help the areas that have been most impacted. The earthquake killed over 218,000 people and caused over $14,000,000,000.00 (14 Billion) in damage. Thousands of people are left with no choice but to live in unsafe tent cities where tropical storms, mudslides and uncontrollable disease are only a few of the life threatening issues they must face.

Haiti- How to Prevent and Protect from Future Earthquake’s

Haiti’s earthquake is an important lesson for the world, Haiti’s poor construction was the real cause for the death toll being so high, there is a good article on ezinearticles.com about: Rebuilding Haiti – Why Steel Buildings Are the Answer. With all the money being donated, Haiti can be rebuilt more efficiently, stronger and greener than with the use of a traditional building. The one question that usually comes to mind when someone thinks of a steel building is an unattractive looking warehouse, well that is false, for today’s metal buildings can be built more attractive then a traditional structure. MBMI encourages everyone to donate.

Sheltering Haiti

Haiti’s government has identified tent camps holding more than 200,000 people who could be in great danger if they are not moved before seasonal heavy rains begin in the next couple of weeks. These camps are in flood plains or directly under unstable hillsides. With heavy rains on the way and precious little time, there are not many solutions available.

What the Haitian people need is shelter, a roof over there heads and they need it now! One solution for shelter is steel buildings. Steel buildings are efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly. If a chunk of donation money would go towards metal buildings, Haiti could potentially save thousands of peoples lives. Metal buildings can be designed to withstand heavy seismic coefficients (Earthquakes), heavy wind loads (Hurricanes) and even heavy snow loads.

Why do Some Roofs Collapse in Winter While Many Don’t?

Besides the workmanship of the builder and the condition of the roofing materials, codes the building was designed to are also a major factor. Did you know that a lot of municipalities base the snow load on a so called 100 year storm? Whether you believe we are entering a new Ice Age or believe that global warming is causing bigger snow storms, the recent storms experienced all over the world, setting new snowfall records, could be a climate trend and not just an anomaly. Record amounts of snow over the last two winters may change code requirements by increasing snow loads. Hurricane Katrina caused wind load requirements to be increased in Louisiana just like hurricane Andrew changed South Florida building codes. If Haiti had buildings designed to CA standards the death toll would have been much lower.

Can we Rebuild Haiti with Steel Buildings?

Haiti’s earthquake left Haiti a huge mess, and some say it cannot be rebuilt, I disagree. If Haiti was built right before the earthquake hit, hundreds of thousands of people would of survived, the earthquake was only an influence to this massacre, the real problem was the poor constructions. So how can Haiti be rebuilt? and how can it be rebuilt to withstand another earthquake? or are the people in Haiti expected to live in tents?

Ive been doing lots of research on Haiti’s situation and I know that Haiti can be rebuilt with steel buildings. Steel buildings are quicker to assemble, they are less expensive, and extremely strong.

How Steel Buildings can Help Haiti!

Steel structures and steel buildings are the obvious choice for Haiti’s reconstruction. There is nothing wrong with concrete and block but this material is more costly than steel and not nearly as good in seismic conditions. Improper design of concrete buildings is what led to this catastrophe in the first place. If Haiti was built with buildings designed with the proper seismic loads in mind, most of the structures where still be standing and thousands of live would have been saved.

So why steel buildings? The inherent properties of a steel structure are its strength and flexibility. Steel is much more flexible than concrete. A steel building is able to absorb the seismic forces much better than a concrete structure. If a structure is unable to absorb these seismic forces, it will fail. There are other advantages of steel as well. Steel is more cost effective than concrete and can be erected in a fraction of the time.

A steel building company with expertise in hurricane areas as well as high seismic areas is needed to help rebuild Haiti. Design and engineering can be done in just a couple weeks and steel can be manufactured in under a month. Steel components can literally be in Haiti in less than 2 months and erected in just a couple of weeks. There is no other solution that is this cost effective, simple, fast and strong!