Disaster Waste Recovery’s Martin Bjerregaard on the demolition-led relief effort.
We have been following the developments in the Haiti relief effort since 12 January 2010 when a devastating earthquake hit the tiny, poverty-stricken island, killing some 300,000 of its inhabitants and rendering a further one million homeless.
But while we watched the demolition-lef releif effort from afar, Martin Bjerregaard has seen it up close and personal. As a representative of the not-for-profit NGO Disaster Waste Recovery, Bjerregaard was among the first on the scene and has played a pivotal role on the island ever since.
On Friday 28 September 2012, Bjerregaard was a guest speaker at the Institute of Demolition Engineers’ Autumn seminar in London.
This exclusive video was shot during the event.
