Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Post-Earthquake
Structural Engineering Report
1. In Patient Building
Structural System
A two storey building: 16 metres by 29 metres in plan.
The ground floor of the building is a concrete slab on grade.
Second floor and roof are concrete flat slabs, each approximately 0.30 metres thick.
Both slabs are supported on two rows of inside round concrete columns, spaced at
approximately 5.5 metres in both directions.