Build Back Better Conference finely happened at Hotel Karibe, Jan 30 to Feb 2, 2011
Ivan Olsen
by Staff Writers
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 2, 2011
From hemp to Styrofoam, from bamboo to recycled rubble from Haiti's streets, ideas are flowing here on how best to rebuild the 200,000homes and buildings damaged or lost in last year's quake.
More than a year after the capital was devastated in the January 12, 2010 earthquake, real reconstruction has yet to start with Port-au-Prince streets still strewn with an estimated 10 million cubic meters (yards) of rubble.
A long-delayed conference this week gathered hundreds of international firms aiming to help the Caribbean country "build back better."
At Hotel Karibe, international and local homebuilders shared blueprints and dollhouse sized-models of Haitian homes at an outdoor exposition..............................................
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AND MORE NEWS ON THIS AT GOOGLE NEWS
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Haiti Housing Designs to be Unveiled This Month
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2011/01/110111haiti_housing_designs.asp
also check out there main site on Haiti Reconctruction
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/haiti/default.asp
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Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) Report: Efforts to Build Haiti Back Better are Well Underway with $3 Billion in Approved Projects Ready for Implementation
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Area woman hopes to help put Haitians into permanent housing
http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_df1c3f12-1fc5-11e0-a6ba-001cc4c002e0.html
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Haiti Reconstruction Hope
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110127/cleisure/cleisure4.html
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Haiti: A year after the earthquake, still waiting for reconstruction
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