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Kit Miyamoto meets many people through his work. Here he drinks tea with a displaced family in earthquake ravaged Nepal. The Miyamoto firm is active doing damage assessments there.

Through the course of his travels – Miyamoto has been around the world – he has discovered a pattern. Partic- ularly in the developing world, it’s not necessarily the building codes that are to blame. Rather, it’s the lack of access to quality engineering and quality materials that cause most of the problems. Structures were nev- er built to withstand an earthquake, so when an earth- quake strikes, those buildings don’t survive. “After an earthquake, you lose everything. We know what works and what doesn’t, and how the public sector should coordinate with the commercial sector.” That was the case in China, where buildings made of cast-in-place concrete with unreinforced masonry walls collapsed. The Sichuan Earthquake of 2008, as it is known, at a magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 69,000 people. “That was really bad,” Miyamoto says of the China quake. See MIYAMOTO, page 8

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