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A team of more than 200 Haitian engineers and a team of engineers from Miyamoto International has performed assessments on over 50,000 structures in Haiti in the past five weeks.

Principal Kit Miyamoto of Miyamoto International says the project’s goal is to assess damage on 100,000 structures in the greater Port-au-Prince area using local workers. A partnership between the Haitian government, United Nations Office of Project Services, World Bank and Miyamoto International, the project also trained over 200 Haitian engineers on how to perform damage assessments.

鈥淭hese people are hard working, good engineers,鈥� Miyamoto said. 鈥淭hey come to work rain or shine. We’ve been performing about 2,000 assessments each day.鈥�

During a damage assessment, buildings were given red, yellow or green tags based on condition. Miyamoto said that about 45 percent of the structures were green, or safe to inhabit, 35 percent were yellow, or damaged but safe to enter, and 20 percent were red, or unsafe to enter.

Damage assessments at this point in Haiti’s recovery are key, Kit said, since nearly one million Haitians are still living in tent cities, and the rainy season is starting. Along with the International Organization for Migration, the team has identified several sites with shelter where people can be moved.

鈥淲e’ll be here until things get done,鈥� Miyamoto said. 鈥淭he last thing you want to do in a situation like this is show up and leave.鈥�