Our first Engineers Without Borders (EWB) team, working on the El Llanito water supply project, left Nicaragua 9 January. Our second team arrived on the 7th so we had overlap and opportunity to do a handoff. Our Responsible Engineer In Charge (REIC), Phil Bowman, and the new arrivals left on 18 January. I posted about Phil’s summary, but want to add this for context. We are so pleased with the community engagement and all the work they have accomplished. They have completed almost all of the trenching - much faster than we had anticipated. We’re monitoring our … [Read more...] about Additional context about next steps for El Llanito EWB project
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Successful Early Implementation trip for EWB El Llanito, Nicaragua
Thanks Phil, Great report! Congratulations to the team, the water committee, the community, and Alcance, for making such wonderful progress on this important project. In the kickoff meeting, Bayardo Obando from Alcance told the story of how the community has wanted and worked on this water project since 1996. It touched me in terms of how important it is for us to complete this with them. Phil gets kudos for managing the workflow through the entire two-team visit, as does Javier for supporting us long-distance in dealing with tough questions about the design. We had … [Read more...] about Successful Early Implementation trip for EWB El Llanito, Nicaragua
Leaving Gamboa, Panama
I’m was at Canopy B&B, waiting for ride to airport. Now I’m in line at the airport. I had great time here. I came to visit Andrew Quitmeyer, at Digital Naturalism Laboratories (DINA: https://www.dinacon.org) via invitation from Shannon Dosemagen, long-time Public Lab friend. You can see what Public Lab is about at: https://publiclab.org/ I’d been intrigued by a map and 3-D model of Gamboa that Andy had made from a drone flight. I brought my new Mavic Mini that I had maybe 6 min of flight time with. Andy coached me, and we flew a section of Gamboa Marsh where a music festival had … [Read more...] about Leaving Gamboa, Panama
First tap stand complete
The apron will come later. We want to wait till we put the pipe in the open trench alongside it and bury that so we can put the apron on top of that area. … [Read more...] about First tap stand complete
Slab poured for Well Support Building for El Llanito, Nicaragua water supply project
We’re relieved this is poured and curing. Thanks to all who worked Sunday to get this completed. … [Read more...] about Slab poured for Well Support Building for El Llanito, Nicaragua water supply project