Day 6 of the Post Disaster Assessment in the Philippines

The engineers have done enough of the survey work now that they know what to look for, noting similarities and differences between sites.  One thing that begins to sink in after going through these damaged buildings is the massive scale of the disaster.  See more at the ASCE website.    On Saturday, May 3, a team of seven civil engineers from ASCE’s Technical Council on Forensic Engineering, in cooperation with the Technical Council on Wind Engineering, left for the Philippines on a week-long mission to conduct post-disaster assessments, documenting evidence of structural and geo-system damage to historic and residential structures and public infrastructure. Mark E. Leeman, P.E., M.ASCE, vice president of Facility Engineering Associates of Fairfax, Virginia, chronicles the team’s experiences in this exclusive daily report for ASCE. This is the fifth installment in the series