A new building on the Quisqueya University (UniQ) campus in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is the first on the campus to be built according to seismic design principles. It reflects the dawn of a new reality in Haiti, where there had been no building codes and no legal requirements to prepare plans and submit them for approval by a government-run building department, "so we established an educational program to teach Haitian engineers about seismic mitigation in design and construction," says Andre Filiatrault, the former director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and a leader in international post-earthquake damage assessment and the education of Haitian engineers. The goal of the MCEER-UniQ partnership and seminars is to help Haiti establish its own community of earthquake engineers.
