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Contact the Affiliates directly (their logos are linked to their websites) if you wish to include them in an RFP.  Or, feel free to contact Revitalization Institute if you wish to obtain guidance on which firm(s) would be most appropriate to design/execute your restoration project or your revitalization program.

• Affiliates are designated as "Enrolled" when they are accepted as an Affiliate.  Once their staff training is complete, they are designated as "Authorized".

• Note: Some firms are designated "Charter Affiliates".  Prior to November 1, 2005, a small number of pioneering organizations helped us design the policies and functions of the Affiliate Network (thank you!). 

 

ZweigWhite is a construction industry leader in publishing, consulting, & trade shows.

 

Almost half a century old, and 1800 employees strong, Weston Solutions is an example of organizational revitalization based on restorative development. In the early 90’s, Roy F. Weston, Inc. was having financial difficulties, and most observers expected them to either fold or merge. Instead, their employees purchased 100% of the firm, changing the name to Weston Solutions, Inc., and developing core competencies in a number of restorative disciplines.  Here’s an excerpt from Weston’s mission statement: “Restoring resource efficiency…to solve emerging, complex problems relating to environment and redevelopment”. That’s a mission statement for the 21st century: It addresses integration challenges (“complex problems”), it addresses both natural and built (“environment and redevelopment”), and it addresses the increase of assets, rather than merely their conservation (“restoring resource efficiency”).

With over 9000 employees, 38-year-old Tetra Tech has enjoyed one of the fastest growth rates in the civil engineering field, ever since their strategic refocus on restorative development during the early 90’s. Tetra Tech operates worldwide in at least eight of the twelve sectors of restorative development; from fisheries, ecosystems, agriculture, and watersheds to brownfields, infrastructure, disasters, and heritage. An example of Tetra Tech’s integrated approach is their work in the Philippines, where the 7-year first-phase of project to restore watersheds, fisheries, and communities just been completed, and the second phase is just beginning. Another example can be found in Tetra Tech’s many Chicago projects. Chicago might well qualify as the most restorative large city in North America (in fact, Mayor Daley was quoted as saying “Economic development in Chicago is brownfields redevelopment”). Many people consider Chicago the birthplace of the brownfields restoration industry, and they can also boast of broad variety of restorative development, from prairie and river restoration, to a vast array of heritage and infrastructure restoration.

Holland & Knight is an international law firm with practice groups and industry-based teams comprising over 1200 lawyers and professionals. Some of the practice areas that relate to natural resource restoration and community revitalization include: Brownfields (transactions, environmental insurance); Health & Safety Litigation (lead, asbestos, & other remediation); Tax Credits (Historic, Brownfields, Low-Income Housing, New Markets); Infrastructure (Transportation, Energy, etc.); Environmental Advocacy and Natural Resource Issues; Water Law; Affordable Housing/Community Development; Banking & Finance; Construction & Design; Eminent Domain & Condemnation; Indian Law (economic development); Land Use; Multifamily Housing (HOPE VI, etc.); Public Finance; Public Policy & Regulation; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs); and Residential & Planned Development.

The Noisette Project--is a private, award-winning example of integrated revitalization.  As the largest sustainable urban redevelopment project in the world, the Noisette Project serves a "living laboratory" of integrated practices. Noisette is a 3,000 acre city-within-a-city. It is an area of North Charleston, South Carolina targeted for integrated restoration as a sustainable community – modeled on the belief that cities must be equally responsive to social needs, environmental responsibility and economic vitality (the philosophy embodied by people, planet, prosperity). Historic Noisette neighborhoods like Liberty Hill – founded in 1878 as a community of freed slaves – include many homes occupied by fifth generation owners. Other assets of interest include a network of tidal creeks, marshes and protected wetlands bordering the Cooper River, many of which will be restored by the project. There’s also a range of well-preserved architectural structures and details, especially on property developed by the U.S. Navy. Their engineers arrived in 1901 to build a major base and shipyard, then the Navy’s collection of residential and industrial structures was vacated during the base closures of 1995. That base closure was the trigger for development of the Noisette concept.  Their world-class design team has set the standard for large-scale integrated community revitalization.

 

Integrative Design Collaborative of Arlington, MA, is the consulting practice of William G. Reed, AIA, LEED AP (CEO), a practicing architect for 25 years, and one of the nation's leading experts on green design. As one of the developers of the LEED system for the U.S. Green Building Council, Bill lends an invaluable expertise to the Technical Council's work on Revitalization Institute's Integrated Revitalization Guide. He approaches regenerative design as the framework from which all technical and functional decisions are derived; the ultimate goal being the improvement in the overall quality of the physical, social and spiritual life of our living places.  At Integrative Design Collaborative, Bill focuses exclusively on green building and community planning issues. This includes design, development, consulting and facilitation of whole-system design processes for developers, architects, and government organizations, as well as education and research that emphasizes alternatives to conventional design, building and management of the built and natural environment.

Resolution Fund, LLC  is the leading firm focused on helping communities, regions, and nations create renewal engines™. to enhance their capacity for self-revitalization.   With a renewal engine, communities form a shared vision of their future, create a culture of renewal, and are able to launch a series of partnerships that design, fund and implement their restoration, remediation, redevelopment, and regeneration projects. The $100 trillion market that's driving the global restoration economy provides communities with all the restorable assets they need to dramatically revitalize themselves. Resolution Fund also specializes in integrated catastrophe recovery strategies for areas hit by natural, anthropogenic, or economic disasters, or by armed conflict. Another specialty is restorative biofuel production strategies that regenerate agriculture lands, ecosystems, and watersheds while revitalizing rural economies.  This is as opposed to the current approach that turns edible crops into fuels, and that underwrites the destruction of wildlife habitat for biofuel farming.  Resolution Fund's other major functon is to link restorative investors and redevelopers with ideal opportunities in renewal-friendly communities.

Christopher Allen + Associates is a strategic services company, helping clients assemble the knowledge and resources needed for profitable and progressive development projects. Support services focus on three main areas: Real Estate Development; Economic Development; & Business Planning & Facilitation.  Begun in 1988, the company comprises Associates, Advisors, and Subcontractors, drawing upon a broad international network of colleagues. They provide strategic and management services to private sector, public agency, and nonprofit clients. Specializing in research and analysis, strategic planning, and sustainable development.  Public sector clients have included the US Department of Energy, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and the United Nations Man and Biosphere Program.  International works includes Europe, Southeast Asia, and Mexico.

Villavaso & Associates is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based firm providing comprehensive services in the areas of Environmental Consulting, Zoning/Planning and Land Use Law to local, national and international clients. Clients include real estate developers, solid waste management corporations, other professional firms and local and regional governments.  The firm's President, Stephen D. Villavaso, FAICP, J.D. is a land use attorney and certified planner who is currently serving as President of the Louisiana chapter of the American Planning Association.  He also teaches graduate courses in Land Use, Zoning & Urban Law, and Solid Waste Management at the University of New Orleans' College of Urban and Public Affairs.

 

ReNew Canada was created by We Communications to address the infrastructure information needs of municipal, provincial, corporate and professional industries who rethink, restore, rebuild, revitalize and renew communities across Canada. Our infrastructure has or is reaching life cycle and capacity limits; every day we increase the gap between what we need, what we got and how much it will cost to build or repair it. To the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and counting.  ReNew Canada introduces government and business leaders with sources of financing, expertise and service of supplier partners so combined, they can play a significant role in bridging this gap and making sustainable urban growth happen.

 

BEM Systems, Inc. is a full-service environmental engineering and consulting firm providing innovative solutions to complex environmental, health, and safety issues facing private industry, state transportation agencies and federal clients. Formed in 1990, BEM is a leader in environmental restoration management, GIS, and other information systems. Headquartered in New Jersey, BEM has regional offices throughout the United States.