Engineering Students Make a Mess to Save Lives with Specially Designed Disaster Training Center
April 1, 2009
Engineering students created a specially designed disaster training center that simulates a building collapse--a pile of carefully placed rubble. Steel and concrete debris are securely positioned to mimic the type of confined crawl spaces and obstacles rescue workers would encounter in a real situation.
RESCUE WORKER TRAINING: In order to train rescue workers in a realistic, but structurally stable environment, civil engineers designed a forty by one hundred sixty foot pile of rubble, designed to replicate the conditions of an apartment building collapsed atop a parking garage. It enables rescue teams to simulate an eight hour search and rescue operation, as they make their way through a pile of steel, concrete, and crushed vehicles, attempting to locate mock victims trapped inside.
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