Aouad Part of OEA's Emergency Taskforce After Beirut Blast
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Aouad was invited to be part of a special taskforce run by the Order of Engineers in Beirut to come up with ideas on the methodology and priorities for intervention in the heritage neighborhoods affected by destruction in the vicinity of Beirut port. Some of those ideas proposed are:
Challenges facing surveys, damage assessments, and the future of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Securing people's needs for housing, work, services and the return of life. Adjusting the urgent construction process to secure deserving needs so that they do not turn into randomness.
Preserving the fabric of old neighborhoods with priority is to strengthen the buildings at risk of collapse and to strengthen the damaged ones in order to restore and rehabilitate.
The compensation mechanism for the people.
Encouraging people to rebuild their homes, through general urban projects that rehabilitate a building or group.
An action is soon to be made public underlying the essence of the taskforce’s mission which comprises:
A comprehensive overview of the rehabilitation of the destroyed areas in Beirut;
The social and economic factors through which the citizen can live, learn, work and have a good quality of life;
The management and organization of the planning and rebuilding;
The preservation of the heritage.
The taskforce will be meeting weekly and one of its first achievements is that it was able to put the affected area under study until further studies.
