More than 125 Haitian architects, engineers and other local industry professionals now have new construction management skills to take back to rebuilding projects in the earthquake-ravaged nation, thanks to a pro bono training program in its third year at Boston's Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT).
The institute's 80-hour "train-the-trainer" program is developing a core of Haitians to spread modern CM and project management practices to hundreds of other local professionals to boost restoration two years after Haiti's devastating magnitude-7.0 quake and to improve its notoriously shoddy construction. Grads must contractually agree to train peers at home.