They form a Guidance Committee for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The General Office of Seismic Evaluation and Vulnerability of Infrastructure and Buildings (Onesvie) announced yesterday that it will work with the Japanese professor, Juan José Castro, on important aspects to strengthen policies aimed at reducing seismic vulnerability in buildings, infrastructure and lifelines in the Dominican Republic.
Castro, a professor at Ryukyus University in Japanand an advisor to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), made reconnaissance trips and held specific meetings to establish strategies that would allow for the realization and refocusing of a plan in that regard.
Accompanied by Leonardo Reyes Madera , general director of Onesvie, and a large technical team of specialists from the government entity, they toured the area where a Structural Laboratory will be built in Santiago de los Caballeros , while in Imbert Puerto Plata , together with technicians from the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (Minerd), they observed the reinforcement process of the Juan N. Ravelo Primary School and the José Francisco Peña Gómez Basic School, in the municipality of Pedro Brand.
Professor Juan José Castro, along with Onesvie authorities, visits several buildings. (EXTERNAL SOURCE).
In that same order, the specialist held an important meeting at the National School of Risk Management (Esnageri) with technical members of the RD Seismic Table belonging to different institutions of the Dominican State and the private sector that handle aspects of risk management in the face of disasters.
At the aforementioned meeting, they decided to form the Guidance Committee for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings, whose mission will be to evaluate agile and effective used successfully in Japan in programs and projects to reduce seismic vulnerability; it will be available and for the exclusive use of all universities in the country.
It is recalled that, in December 2023, Professor Castro visited the Dominican Republic to follow up on the training program “Strengthening the Diagnostic Capacity of the Seismic Resistance of Buildings”; he met with technicians from Onesvie and the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM); the training was the result of an agreement between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the general management of Onesvie.
