The National University of La Plata (UNLP) developed a special water evacuation plan to face a "rainy emergency", such as the one registered on April 2 in that town, this in order to preserve its historical, cultural and building heritage.
After the storm, professionals at the service of the Secretariat of Planning, Works and Services of the UNLP carried out a thorough analysis in all the faculties, schools and dependencies of the house of studies, in which they knew the magnitude of the damages caused by the passage of water.
At the end of the analysis, it was concluded that the most appropriate and recommended thing for all properties is to have a rainwater emergency system on roofs and basements, thereby preventing future damage to infrastructure and serious deterioration in goods and technological equipment.
For Guillermo Nizan, secretary of Works of the institution, most of the university buildings are not prepared to face the type of climatic phenomena that it has now and that are different from the time in which the buildings were conceived.
As explained, the water evacuation plan contemplates the installation of cisterns with extraction pumps in basements and subsoils, and gargoyles of drains in gutters embedded in roofs and terraces. In addition, the purchase and installation of generator sets is planned.
The intervention will affect more than 60 academic, laboratory, administrative and institute buildings of the 17 faculties, colleges and dependencies of the UNLP.
