“Death by a 1000 shovels”

Great Moments with Shovels

Life on the Beach

Great Moments with Shovels

The Search for Buried Treasure

Great Moments with Shovels

Bonding with Friends

Shovels can be Dangerous

What are you thinking?

Shovels of Death

Haiti: January 12, 2010

Shovels of Death

7.0 Magnitude

Haiti: January 12, 2010

Shovels of Death

20 million cubic yards of rubble

Haiti: January 12, 2010

Shovels of Death

1.2 Million Homeless

Haiti: January 12, 2010

Shovels of Death

230,000 Dead

Why Blame ShovelsWhy Blame Shovels

The Poor use Shovels

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Shovels and Backs

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Shovels and Buckets

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Shovels and Low Cement

1-Sack = 1 Days Pay +

Low Cement Content

Beg, Borrow or Steal

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Shovels and Extra Water

Ease Mixing Process

Ease Scooping

Pours easier

Flows into forms

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Shovels and Bad Aggregate

Beach sand

No quality controls

Dirt mining

Rubble recycling

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"The Haitian-made concrete had an average compressive strength of 1,300 pounds per square inch."

Kimberly Kurtis, chair of the American Concrete Institute's Materials Science and Georgia Tech Professor.

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Well below the standard of 3000 PSI

As low as 770 PSI…

Question… Why did Chile succeed and Haiti failed?

525 Dead in 2010 Quake 230,000 Dead in 2010 Quake

Haiti Earthquake Review

• 7.0 Magnitude, Shallow Quake• Between 250,000 and 300,000 died• Similar Number Seriously Injured• Over 1,500,000 homeless in 30 sec.• 20,000,000 cubic meters of rubble

Broken Supply Chain

Quake in Chile, 46 days later

• 6th largest quake in History• 8.8 on Richter Scale• 510 times as strong as the Haiti Quake

• Estimated 525 people died

Working Supply Chain

End Result of Shovel Mixing

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To the Rescue…

More Shovels

Perpetual Rescue…

And More Shovels

Perpetual Results…

Stop the Shovels

Killed by Their Own Hands

We can change this!

Las Vegas Las Vegas

Millions of Cubic Yards…

Curing Poor Supply Chains

Trustworthy Concrete!

1. Inform charities/NGOs about poor concrete production practices

2. Facilitate the development of appropriate concrete technology

3. Teach charities/NGOs methods to improve concrete supply chains

4. Assist charities to transfer this knowledge to the poor they serve

Information Campaign

Appropriate Technology

Supply Chains

Local Business Training

Retire the Shovels

Cement Trust Symposium• July 11th and 12th 2013• In the Heart of the Oregon Wine Country and Home to

the “Spruce Goose”.• Thought Leaders are Invited• A Strategic Planning Focus

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