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Two Michigan Tech classes worked in Bolivia in July and August 2005. The walls keep rising….Last year the first floor bathrooms and a school room were constructed on the new Walter Henry School site. This year another room was added on ground floor as well as 3 rooms above. Next year the freshmen through juniors will occupy these new school rooms! Design projects this year ranged from analyzing the existing structural design including testing concrete strengths and performing soil borings. Students designed septic systems for four government schools with malfunctioning bathrooms and septic systems. School master planning is also included in for schools with rapid student growth. They also conducted drinking water quality studies at the schools. Other class members designed storm drainage solutions for the 7th ring in District 10 and another team proposed redesign solutions to standing water problems in a paved drainage canal on the 6th ring. The final team is conducting a feasibility study of the garbage dumping and pollution in the swamps formed by former brick factories in the area. These areas are breeding ground for disease as well as play areas for the children. The District 10 sub-mayor and Santa Cruz city offices’ were extremely helpful and supportive of the design projects. Three former International Design Students returned as mentors: Marc Plotkin (2001), Tim Elmore (2002), and Tim Martin (2003). MTU ChE Alum Nancy Bach also joined us.
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Linda D. Phillips, PE, PMP, CDT,
Michigan Tech
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