ERP Update...Centro Rehabilitacion Integral Paceno (CRIP)

As my main project of our Poverty Reduction Strategy work in La Paz, I was in charge of design, budgeting, and proposal submittal for the remodel of an existing physical rehabilitation center. We received 312,000.00 Lempiras ($16,500) from the national organization to complete this project. In March we selected a contractor and the demolition began just before Easter.








The work includes reorganization of interior spaces to allow for more patient privacy, the addition of a new bathroom and storage room, and the reconfiguration of the building entry. My favorite part of this project was the front entry redesign. The existing slope of the entry ramp was so steep that it was completely inaccessible to handicapped persons, the main clients of the center, so I redesigned the ramp to allow for patients to enter the center of their own ability. We unfortunately had to remove the existing Ficus trees to allow for the switchback ramp, but they were also damaging the sidewalk, so we will put back green plants and trees where these trees were removed.

The color plan is my proposed design. In the photos you can see the before photo with the Ficus trees, some of the interior partition walls, and workers putting up the perimeter fence.