The Caribbean Region
and other geographic locations, which were recently critically damaged by
natural disasters, has an opportunity to rebuild and construct better and
stronger. Opportunities do now exist presently to better plan, design and commission
utilities, with adequate levels of redundancies, to reliably deliver essential emergency
and basic life supporting services. New sustainable designed structures are
desperately needed to reconstruct local economies and restructure lifestyles. The
right tech, combined with the right process, empowers teams to make the right
decisions at the right time. Data Driven Decisions have completely overhauled, what was an
industry heavily dependent on paper-based ways of drafting, designing, and
managing project scope.
A nation’s human and
natural resources are its key economic earners and as such must receive the highest
levels of protection. Infrastructure, inclusive of; water, electricity, transportation
and telecommunication networks, development, is one of the nation’s methods of
increasing such resource value. These structures must, from time to time, at a minimum,
be maintained and upgraded with new, state of the art, materials and anchoring
engineering improvements to preserve its value and functions. Protection
against both natural and manmade disasters, such as; storms and earthquakes,
sabotage and terrorism, is essential. Hence, monitoring the latest research and
development of structural improvement methods and the accompanying construction
technique is vital.
Workable and
Sustainable Containment are being Designed for; Residential, single dwelling
or story, or multiple dwellings or stories, homes, in much a similar fashion to
car designing. Similarly, Work Places; such as, Industrial Parks or Plants, Commercial
Structures, Hotels, Hospitals, Schools, Police Stations, Community Centers, and
Entertainment Spaces, are becoming standardized to reduce cost and improve
efficiency. Production line Manufactured Detachable Pods are receiving
specialty design finishing while, maintaining standard approved building measures
to fit widespread foundations, similar to roads. The legal
authorities will soon, if not, has already mandated such standard building
measures applied to foundations size, columns height and ring beam length and
width. Now Pods will come
with standard Locking Mechanisms, Interior Walls, Flooring, Ceiling, Kitchen,
Wash and Bath Rooms, with Plumbing and Electricity Wiring connections, etc.
Data is
readily accessible to engineers, procurement teams, and project managers via the
use of sophisticated platforms. The nation’s Land Ownership Database linked to
geological surveys, identifying bedrock and other surface types, is used to
manage building planning codes. The said Database is linked to historical
weather patterns to predict safety levels and erosion rates. Data is available
on the construction stock; import and manufacture of key infrastructural
components, and heavy equipment accessibility. All construction industry national Databases
are linked to each other via a comprehensive and active manpower availability
registration records. Hence, publicly providing for both structural maintenance
and expansion works, and easy disaster recovery.
Finance, in much
the same ways, Government (The Collective People) can borrow low interest,
long-term loans from international lending agencies to build, maintain and
repair its Infrastructure. The Government also can insure its building
foundations and structures while, insisting that all individual pod owners
carry their own insurances. The Government is also paying, via taxation, for
storing additional, ready for sale pods and the data management. Individuals
are encouraged to pre-order and purchase pods, using mortgages, as a starter
home or to expand their home, keeping families close. Hence, benefiting from
all the advantages of home ownership while, by reducing disaster recovery
commitments, creating a no or low personal tax zone.
Rationale
T.A.J
& Associates Company Limited
uses this occasion to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically
and by the mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment
opportunity, not to invoke any social action.
