Herb Nordmeyer Herb Nordmeyer retired from a successful career in cementitious product de-velopment and in troubleshooting failures (usually other people failures) following the economic downturn of 2008. He set up a wilderness kayak guiding service, started writin books with his granddaughters, and doing consulting work around the United States, especially serving as an expert witness where construction fail-ures have occurred. After being pushed into making one trip to Haiti in 2013, he accepted an impos-sible challenge to find or develop technology so the poorest of the poor could build disaster-resistant homes for a material cost of not more than $1,000 US. He failed. The cost was just under $3,000 US for materials. He continues to make from 4 to 6 trips to Haiti per year, building and teaching others to build low-cost, disaster-resistant housing. His second book in Haitian Creole (Kalite Beton Kaka - that is Quality Concrete from Crap) was published in December 2018. He seldom has time to go kayaking anymore, and the granddaughters he wrote books with have grown up and moved on. He continues to consult. "My goal is to teach and solve problems in a manner so I educate those around me and inspire them to do their best. This will lead to all of us listening to and learning from one another." Read More Read Less