| The What, Why and How of Sustainable Development |
| Sustainable Development: A Feature of PB’s
2003 Technical Exchange Program |
| By Suzanne Johnson Crocker, St. Louis, Missouri,
1-314-206-4242, JohnsonSuz@pbworld.com |
The main topics presented at the 2003 Technical
Exchange Program are introduced in this article.
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| In November 2003, PB gathered nearly 150 professional associates,
senior professional associates, and principal professional associates
in Stevenson, Washington for its Technical Exchange Program (TEP).
This three-day event focused on two main themes—sustainable
development, co-chaired by Julie Hoover and Peter Kydd; and professional
development, co-chaired by Bruce Podwal and Susana Florian. The
final sessions integrated the two topics and illustrated the strong
relationship between them.
For a few, this event served as a primer in sustainable development,
while for most, it served as an opportunity to interact in deep
discussions with professionals in other disciplines about sustainable
development technology, information transfer and theory. Keynote
addresses by Tom O’Neill, Mike Schneider, and Julie Hoover,
called for recognizing the need and ability for PB to meet clients’
demands for sustainable development. Evidence of our capability
was highlighted by 20 posters covering even more projects. The subjects
covered included:
- Sustainable Infrastructure: National Aboriginal Health Strategy
- Trade Coast Central Master Plan 1
- Sustainable Remediation
- Llandarcy Urban Village, South Wales
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: Cogan Hall Farm Development
2
- Options Study: Effects of the End of Life Vehicles 3
- Greening Government Programme for UK’s Ordnance Survey
and the Environmental Agency 4
- PBs Environmental Management System 5
- Bridges and Civil Engineering Structures
- BREEAM and Modular Services
- Sustainable Development in the English Dales 6
- Thermal Desalination Performance 7
- A Vision for Knowledge Management at PB
- Hazelwood East High School, St. Louis, Missouri
- Twin Creeks Transit Oriented Development Master Plan, Central
Point, Oregon, U.S
- Comprehensive Port Improvement Plan: Port of New York and New
Jersey
- PLACE3S (Planning for Community Energy, Economic
and Environmental Sustainability, an urban planning method and
GIS tool) 8
- PB’s Public Involvement Services
- Cleveland Lakefront Vision Plan.
The posters and presentations, can be found on PB’s Sustainable
Development PAN site along with a wealth of other information on
the TEP and on sustainable development. Since the TEP, many participants
have shared what they learned with their local offices by using
the presentations from the event.
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| Suzanne Johnson Crocker works with the architectural
team of PB Buildings. She created and is the coordinator for PB’s
Sustainable Development practice area network (PAN) and is the leader
of the buildings portion of PB’s Sustainable Development Initiative.
Suzanne has given a number of presentations on sustainable development
topics at seminars and universities, and delivered several in-house
workshops.
Related Web Sites:
• Comprehensive Port Improvement Plan:
http://www.cpiponline.org/
• PLACE3S: http://www.energy.ca.gov/places/,
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/articles/place3s.shtml, http://www.pbbulletin.com/Volume19_Issue_2/html/toolbox_2.html
• PB’s Sustainable Development PAN:
PB WorldNet : http://pbworldnet/launcher.asp?action=5&v=3&w=558839&x=-1&y=540&z=558839
Internet: http://www.pbworldnet.com/launcher.asp?action=5&v=3&w=558839&x=-1&y=540&z=558839.
1 For more information on this project, please see “TradeCoast Central Master Plan,” a following article by Tony Duncan.
2 For more information on this project, please see “A sustainable Urban Drainage System: Cogan Hall in Penarth, South Wales” a following article by Stephen Taylor.
3 For more information on this study, please see “Integrated Appraisal of Options to Mitigate the Effects of the End of Life Vehicles Directive on Last Owners in Wales,” a following article by Philip Cumming.
4 For more information on the project for UK’s Environmental Agency, please see “Sustainable Development at the Strategic Planning Stage” a following article by Peter Kydd.
5 For more information on how the EMS was further developed, please see “ISO 14001: Communicating our Environmental Management System” a following article by Kathryn Vowles.
6 For more information on this project, please see “Renewable Energy Plan in the English Dales,” a following article by Ian Burdon and Daniel Dufton.
7 For more information on thermal desalination, please see “Independent Water and Power Projects: PB Invention to Improve Desalination” a following article by Paul Willson.
8 For more information about the development of this tool and how
it is being used to help communities to understand how their growth
and development decisions can contribute to improved sustainability,
please see two PB Network articles by Sara Stein—“More Planning with PLACE3S” by Sara Stein, Issue No. 50, September 2001, pp. 43-35; and “Planning with PLACE3S” by Sara Stein, Issue No. 49, March 2001, pp. 71-72.
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