Tag: H. Kit Miyamoto
A Curse or Savior?
Advancements in Engineering Can Bring Prosperity, But There Are Also Human Costs
H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D., S.E.
Slicing through a wide red river, our small boat approaches the...
From 1,400 Feet
Looking down at the world, both failure and success are easy to see.
H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D., S.E.
I am standing at 1,400 feet...
Hope in liquified land
Disaster triggers resolve to build safer, more resilient communities.
H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D., S.E. in Jakarta, Indonesia
I am standing on liquified land that swallowed more...
Art of business — or life — planning
Focusing on what’s important makes it easier to capture opportunities.
H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D., S.E., in Johannesburg, South Africa
Business planning is something like life planning....
How Mexico City will be rebuilt
The mission is to reconstruct safer buildings and provide financially feasible solutions for people who lost their homes.
By H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D., S.E.
It’s Sunday...
How the construction industry saves the world
Public support and private-sector investment is driving Turkey’s infrastructure expansion.
I am in Istanbul meeting with the director of construction from Turkish Airlines, which is...
Business Development is for Everyone?
Engineers thrive on identifying issues and solving them.
I am flying back from Washington, D.C., where our team and I spent a week together in...
Make the world a better place
We had a very special evening last month. The “Night of 1000 Drawings” event in downtown Los Angeles, organized by our nonprofit, Miyamoto Relief,...
Eight years after
On Jan. 12, 2018, landing at the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti, I smell a mixture of gas exhaust and tropical heated air. A Haitian...
