Building materials

[bcholmes]

A point that I just made on TalkRadio 1010: the most common building material in Haiti is cement block and concrete. The vast majority of buildings in Haiti are made out of this material.

In Haiti, they don't want the cement to be too strong, because when people want to tear down a wall, they pretty much do it by hand with chisel and hammer. It's easy to understand that a lot of these buildings will collapse, and the detritus will be very heavy and hard to move.