DISUR is selected by the American Architectural Foundation
Members of Project PR#127 will participate in the Sustainable Cities Design Academy
(Ponce, Puerto Rico - February 9, 2012) The American Architectural Foundation announced that eight public-private development teams will receive leadership training and technical assistance through the Foundation’s Sustainable Cities Design Academy. Among the teams is DISUR’s PR#127-Guayanilla-Peñuelas-“From Scrap the Future is Born”. The project team is the only group from Puerto Rico selected to participate in the workshops, to be held July in Baltimore, Maryland.
“We anticipate that the output of our participation in the Sustainable Cities Design Academy will contribute significantly to the land reuse plan for area brownfields,” said David Southgate, Project Manager for DISUR. “Being selected is a great honor for Puerto Rico and a real boost to the Project.”
Project PR#127 is part of EPA's Area-wide Brownfields Planning Pilot Program, directed towards Brownfields impacted communities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The funds are used for planning the evaluation, cleanup, rehabilitation and reuse of the former petrochemical lands along Puerto Rico road 127, some 3,500 acres that include nine neighborhoods in the rural municipalities of Peñuelas a Guayanillla, Puerto Rico.
DISUR’s team was selected for their proposed project known as “Peñuelas Parque Solar”, formerly Union Carbide LLC, among several Brownfields in a largely abandonded petrochemical complex. The project proposes the development of a solar panel farm and a solar panel fabrication facility.
“It is an honor for DISUR that our project team was selected to participate in the Sustainable Cities Design Academy. Certainly, this participation will provide ideas for the design and possible development of a renewable energy project, in accordance with our mission to promote economic development in the southern region,” stated María E. Meléndez Altieri, Mayor of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce and President of DISUR.
Through various design workshops, experts of the American Architectural Foundation will provide resources, education and best practices to help these teams formulate action plans and make environmentally responsable design decisions when addressing the specific design challenges of their cities.
The Sustainable Cities Design Academy was established in 2009. Since then, 23 development teams across the United States have benefited from the program.
For additional information about the American Architectural Foundation and the Sustainable Cities Design Academy, visit www.archfoundation.org .
Established in 1943 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the American Architectural Foundation is a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the power of architecture to improve lives and transform communities. Through national programs including the Sustainable Cities Design Academy, Great Schools by Design, the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, and the Architecture+Design Education Network, the Foundation promotes design leadership and literacy at local level, where everyday decisions can have a transformative impact on the places that shape our lives and our society. The Foundation is on the ground in more than 75 cities across the country, helping local leaders to use design as a catalyst for innovation and action.
DISUR is a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and maximize competitiveness and sustainable socioeconomic development of the Southern Region of Puerto Rico. DISUR also integrates the efforts and resources from the public, private, academic sectors, as well as the citizens who are residents of the Southern area in order to achieve a better quality of life. The organization brings together the efforts of fifteen communities in South Puerto Rico: Adjuntas, Arroyo, Coamo, Guánica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Jayuya, Juana Díaz, Patillas, Peñuelas, Ponce, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Villalba, and Yauco. For more information visit http://www.disur.org/en , http://twitter.com/disurPR or http://www.facebook.com/DISURPR
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