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Richard Martin
E-Mail: ngpinc5@comcast.net

Chairman of NGP, Inc., is a community development professional and product designer with both domestic and international experience for more than 35 years.

A former professor of design in the mechanical engineering department of Stanford University and a professor of building construction and industrial design at Georgia Tech. Martin has conducted research projects for industry and the National Science Foundation focusing on sustainable housing.

He founded the Center for Rehabilitation Technology at Georgia Tech (specializing in development of technology to assist disabled persons), the Laboratory of Sustainable Design in construction, and is on the board of The National Center for Appropriate Technology.

His current projects include housing and community development in Haiti in the Caribbean to counter the effects of community decay and the ravages of natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.

In July of 2000, Martin designed and built a school for the Mandeville Diocese, Mandeville, Jamaica.

Following the Jamaica project, Martin worked with Ambassador Andrew Young's Good Works Foundation to construct a
prototype shipping container school in Haiti.

One of the goals of that undertaking was to teach Haitians skills that could be used in their economically struggling country.

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