Introduction to this index.

Rebuilding Rabaul (ENB) Papua New Guinea has taken careful planning involving assessment of hazards and risks, classification of volcanic effects, followed by the formation of the town plan and development of the engineering plan. This paper explains these processes.

It has been put here as a follow up study to aid students who have investigated the damage caused to Rabaul by the volcanic eruptions which began on 19 September, 1994. Students may have been introduced to this event during Geography Action Week 1997 or the book from Cambridge University Press called Hazards.

The paper is provided here as Portable Document Files (pdf) which allow it to be read online or printed in its original form.

Portable Document Files (pdf)

For those seeking higher quality, especially for printing, there are a couple of pages from each chapter available in Portable (Adobe) Definition Files (pdf).
The booklet is printed in high quality black and white (greyscale) and the preview examples can be downloaded from the links labelled  . These files include colour images, but are of relatively low definition (300dpi) to keep the files smaller. They should print quite well on standard 300-600dpi printers.

Be warned; the pdf files can be fairly large and slow to download.

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Index

Web version


The  web version of the 22 page document is fairly large because of the many and large images and takes a fair while to load. Consequently it is only available here as text and without most images at present. The larger images of figures difficult to read in the pdf files are available by clicking the appropriate links.

The PDF version gives a good idea of the figures anyway.

This file was converted by Microsoft Word which ignores International Standards for HTML for some of the top set characters and the odd errors have not yet been corrected.

PDF version


This paper was originally presented by SMEC International for the 1999 Engineering Excellence Awards.

It is published here with the permission of SMEC International (© 1999) for fair use by students and teachers in school classrooms.

The following sections are taken from the 22 page paper and presented in sections as pdf files which are more suitable for printing..

Summary, Features of Excellence
  pages 1-4   (64kb)
Assessment of Hazards and Risks
  pages 5-7  (24kb)
Classification of Volcanic Effects
   pages 8-10  (78kb)
Formulation of the Town Plan
   pages 11-12  (9kb)
Development of the Engineering Plan (1)
   pages 13-15  (172kb)
Development of the Engineering Plan (2)
   pages 16-18  (360kb)
Project Data, Organisation and Staff
   pages 19-21  (41kb)
Conclusion
   page 22  (5kb)
The whole paper
This is big and takes a few minutes (possibly 3-5) to download.
   Rebuilding Rabaul, 19 page version  (912kb)

Helpful textbook


For information about a textbook that introduces this topic and encourages investigation, decision-making and action click on this link:  Hazards.
Yes, I know that this is a blatant, gratuitous plug, but the book is worth a quick look. It was shortlisted for the "Academy Awards" of the industry by the Australian Publishers Association!

All text & graphics © 1999 McElroy