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Americas Now Game changer For this week’s Game Changer on “Americas Now,” meet Argentina’s Nicolas Garcia Mayor. Nicolas has designed an emergency shelter for victims of natural disasters. Called CMAX, it looks like a tent, folds up and can be transported too. It even comes with collapsible furniture. The world has seen more and more extreme weather and storm systems, in recent years.  And according to the United Nations, 22 million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2013. Garcia Mayor’s goal...

Housing the Displaced – by James Pero, Mechanical Engineering Share ASME It isn’t often that a grad school project can land you a visit with the Pope. But anyone who’d like to try may want to talk to Nicolás García Mayor. In 2001, at the age of 21, he developed the Cmax System as a graduate student in industrial design at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina. Named for his younger brother, Carlos Maximiliano, the Cmax is...