Michael and some of his team will be leaving for Haiti on the 30th June.

They will be going for five or six days to do a reconnaissance of the areas and a trial of what they feel is suitable.

The current game plan will involve taking a concrete demo saw and cutting up the rubble from collapsed buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince. The next stage will be to place this rubble into highway gabion baskets that will be used as huge building blocks (If you google image ‘gabion baskets’ you will see the kind of thing Michael is looking at). These building blocks will make the first 4ft of an earthquake resistant circular structure.

The next stage will be to implement a water harvesting roof using a bird cage rebar thin shell cement dome. Should this work this will be the first stage in his attempt to facilitate clean up and permanent water harvesting structures in one move.

There are no plans to build any permanent structures on this visit. As mentioned it is a reconnaissance mission looking at ‘what’ and ‘where’ to stage a future build using these methods. Michael and his team however do plan to demonstrate this method of permanent construction in a demo wall whilst they are there on this short trip.

The picture shows the look of this building when finished with a contained Earthship sewage system.