The first full day with the Howard University Engineers Without Borders was filled with incessant activity and concrete decisions. Right after breakfast, the EWB team leader Brian Stephenson laid out the pressing issues: there were measurements to verify and details to be decided upon. The rest of the morning was spent in the theater space, with Tiffany, Brett and Kurt filling pages full of sketches and numbers, so when our wonderful architect Cristina Morelli arrived in the afternoon, everyone, including Marlene, Marcella and Veronique, was able to hash through all the issues, one by one, in a three-hour-long session that flew by in a frenzy of intense discussion, with rapid-fire translations between Italian, Portuguese and English flying across the table. At this point, we will be able to make the definitive design for the ICBIE theater and start concrete plans for construction.
In the coming days, we will begin to meet with builders and firms that supply construction materials, so that we can determine precise cost estimates and time lines for the work to begin!
