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DESIGN TEAM R&D: MANHATTAN REGIONAL MEETING – SITE VISITS AND WORKING SESSIONS

September 11, 2013 – September 12, 2013 All Day Site visits in Red Hook, South Street Seaport, and Battery Park City Two days touring sites around New York City introduced teams to physical and social infrastructural vulnerabilities in high-density urban environments. Assembling a group of experts in energy and transportation affairs, we analyzed New York […]

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DESIGN TEAMS ANNOUNCED

August 9, 2013 All Day The President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force announced the selection of ten multidisciplinary design teams to participate in Rebuild By Design. These teams, proceeding to the competition’s research and design development stages, were selected from more than 140 applicants representing the top engineering, architecture, design, landscape architecture, and planning firms as well

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LAUNCH OF REBUILD BY DESIGN STAGE I

All Day  NYU Institute for Public Knowledge  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched Rebuild By Design by issuing a Request for Qualifications to compete in an innovative process meant to develop regionally-scalable but locally-contextual solutions that increase resilience in the Sandy-affected region. This event was held at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge

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RBD_U Kick Off Event

“Resilience by Design University” (RBD_U), launched with several schools, including University of Pennsylvania School of Design, New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge (NYU/IPK) and the Yale School of Architecture, are setting up interdisciplinary conversations about resilience. It’s aim is to strengthen resilience in the schools’ curricula. In April 2015, students were invited to NYU/IPK

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JOHANNA LAWTON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Johanna Lawton is the Deputy Director at Rebuild by Design, driving resilient infrastructure initiatives at local, state, and national levels, as well as collaborative stakeholder engagements to develop community-centered climate adaption solutions. Lawton’s work focuses on equitable long-term planning and policy-development for climate relocation and displacement, extreme heat adaptation, and flood mitigation, with an emphasis

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HENK OVINK, PRINCIPAL

Henk Ovink is the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. “Worldwide, water is the connecting issue, the number one global risk and the opportunity for comprehensive cultural change.” Ovink is Principal of Rebuild by Design and was Senior Advisor to the former US Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task.

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