Dec. 10 Workshop On Overcoming Risk From Extreme Weather Thru Green Infrastructure In Community Redevelopment, Lancaster; Submit Your Site

The Water Environment Federation Stormwater Institute will host a December 10 Workshop On Strategies For Overcoming Risk From Extreme Weather Through Green Infrastructure In Community Redevelopment at the Farm & Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road in Lancaster from 8:30 to Noon.

Submit your site and have a chance to be picked for up to 80-hours of no-cost design services.

This half day workshop will explore the anatomy of community revitalization. Hear from national experts and local practitioners. Get creative and cost-effective solutions to tackle site constraints and extreme weather through Green Infrastructure design. 

You will learn-- 

-- What are green infrastructure (GI) and resiliency (R)?

-- How are GI/R strategies related?

-- How can innovative GI/R strategies overcome site challenges?

-- How do local redevelopment plans align with resiliency?

-- How is resiliency being adopted in redevelopment nationally?

Speakers include--

-- Rebecca Stack is a civil engineer, educator, and principal of Designgreen. Her 20-year career spans construction site management to complex green infrastructure design to urban ecology education. As a former code official, she has extensive practical experience at the interface of practice and regulation.

She was a key figure in Washington, D.C.’s adoption of its stormwater retention standards, off-site retention trading program and Green Area Ratio. Her company manages the District's green roof incentive program and is leading the design of multiple innovative stormwater management demonstration projects.

-- Marcus Quigley, EcoLucid, is an innovator and engineer working to inspire world-class teams to transform, build, and grow enterprises and organizations to solve our most urgent and complex civil and environmental problems at scales that dramatically improve outcomes for people and communities. 

He brings more than 25 years of deep technical, business, and industry experience leading and managing major programs and projects and creating and growing organizations.

-- Mary Gattis has worked for over 30-years on environmental issues across public, private and non-profit sectors. 

Mary shares her knowledge gleaned from extensive, close working experiences with local and state governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed and with regional regulators at EPA. She brings unique Brownfields redevelopment insights to the event.

Come to network with industry colleagues. Meet experts across the private and public sectors. Participate in design activities. Contribute to a nationally distributed model process for communities engaged in building resilience.

Submit Your Site

Participants who submit their challenge sites, in advance, may be featured in a nationally-distributed site catalog on resilient redevelopment. Site submissions may be selected for charrette activities.  

One submission will also be awarded up to 80-hours of no-cost design services.  Click Here to submit your site.

Click Here to register for this free workshop and for more information.

For more information on stormwater programs, visit the Water Environment Federation Stormwater Institute webpage.

(Note: This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement CB96336601 to Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does the EPA endorse trade names or recommend the use of commercial products mentioned in this document.) 

[Posted: November 19, 2019]  www.PaEnvironmentDigest.com