Pratt Institute

Please join Pratt Program for Sustainable Planning and Development for our Spring 2012 Lecture Series!
Free and open to the public!

Events held at: Pratt Manhattan, 144 West 14th St., Room 213 (between 6th and 7th Avenues)

Environmental Justice in New York

Presented by Eddie Bautista, Executive Director NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA).

6:00 pm - 8:00pm

2/3 An Evening with NYC-EJA Members: 

with representatives from UPROSE, El Puente, Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice, The Point, Nos Quedamos and Morningside Heights/West Harlem Sanitation Coalition.

2/10 NYC Solid Waste Management Plan

with Gavin Kearney of NY Lawyers for the Public Interest; Eric Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Brian Mahanna of the NYC Mayor's Office

2/24 Incineration (a.k.a. Thermal "Waste-to-Energy")

with David Bragdon, Director, Mayor's Office of Long Term Planning & Sustainability; Laura Haight, NY Public Interest Research Group; Nicky Sheets, NJ Environmental Justice Alliance

3/23 Brownfield Reclamation

with Dan Walsh, Director of Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation; Jody Kass, New Partners for Community Revitalization

Keeping it Cool: Fighting Climate Change with Preservation

Presented by Ned Kaufman, Kaufman Heritage Conservation

6:00 pm - 8:00pm

1/27 Preserving Heritage (and the Planet): Preservation at the End of the Oil Age

with Stephen Tilly, Principal, Stephen Tilly Architect

2/17 Synergies of Stewardship, Technology, and Design: Restoring the Earth

with Jean Carroon, FAIA, Principal, Goody Clancy, author of Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

3/9 The Greenest Building is... One That's Already Built

with Carl Elefante, FAIA, Director of Sustainable Design, Quinn Evans Architects

3/30 Unlocking the Green Opportunity in New York's Old Buildings

with Lisa Kersavage, Senior Director, Preservation and Sustainability, Municipal Art Society

Insider Case Study of an NYC Development Project: Riverside Center

Presented by William Menking, Executive Editor, The Architect's Newspaper; and David Gruber

6:00 pm - 8:00pm

Riverside Center is a controversial, large-scale development project proposed for approximately 8 acres of land located in the southwestern corner of Manhattan's Upper West Side, proposed by the Extell Development Company, and certified by the NYC Department of City Planning on May 24, 2010. This series will examine the original proposal, the controversies surrounding it, the role of the community board and the many other community based organizations that were involved as well as the parts played by the various City agencies and other decisions makers in the overall project. Guest speakers will give an insider's opportunity to learn about the development process from various view points and will introduce the class to the various hurdles and regulations that must be faced to complete a development in NYC.

4/6 Roy Kim, Senior Vice President, Design, Extell Development Company

4/13 Mel Wymore, former Chair, Community Board 7

4/20 Brian Cook, Director of Planning, Office of Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President

CM/FM Lecture Series

Presented by James G. Howie, RA, AIA

Meet the speaker at 6:15 PM; Lectures begin promptly at 6:30 PM

1/30 Restructuring a Distressed Development

with Harry L. Posin, President, Label & Co. Developments, Inc.

Learn how a development was redesigned, refinanced and launched for success. This will be a hands-on perspective, including market research, financing, government approvals, construction and project management.

2/29 What's Shaking the City? Seismic Design in NY

with Dr. Sissy Nikolaou, PE, Senior Associate, Mueser Rutledge Engineers

Seismic design parameters in building codes are generic, and, as a result, conservative. The Virginia quake, felt in NYC last August, as well as the recent mega-earthquakes of Japan and Chile, show the influence of these events on the planet, seismic design thinking, and the New York construction industry.

3/20 Real Life / Real Time Dispute Resolution

with Joel Sciascia, General Counsel, Pavarini McGovern

A lesser known, but increasingly popular, form of alternate dispute resolution is called Dispute Resolution Boards (DRB). The history and structure of a typical DRB & case studies will demonstrate how a DRB was employed to solve contract interpretation issues. 

4/19 Disaster Mitigation: Protecting Buildings

with Chris Marrion, PE, FSFPE, Marrion Consulting

Disaster mitigation through performance-based design/analysis provides numerous benefits, allowing objectives and credible hazards to be addressed, and to develop risk-informed, sustainable, cost-effective solutions. This talk will focus on historic buildings application and protecting cultural resources.