The City of San Marcos, TX is developing a new zoning code for the city and is addressing critical sustainability issues, particularly in regard to the limestone recharge area, which is very susceptible to direct pollution when development occurs within the geologically sensitive area. CGI collaborated with a wide range of sophisticated stakeholders to draft [...]
Rosetown is a neighborhood on the southwest side of Kingston that experienced devastating gang wars in 2008-9. The Princes Foundation established a local Rosetown Foundation to help the neighborhood rebound. CGI used the DPZ-designed redevelopment plan to work with the community to help rebuild a corridor through the entire community to provide water, sewer, electricity [...]
Civil Engineering Street and Grading Design
Subsidiarity, Cost-Estimating on the Fly, Transect-Based Infrastructure Including Costs
Green Infrastructure
Integrated sustainable infrastructure calculations and designs for a 235-hectare post-disaster redevelopment masterplan following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The infrastructure was in very, very poor condition prior to the earthquake, and was completely destroyed in the earthquake event. The designs contemplated and analyzed three different scenarios for redevelopment: block, corridor and entire core. The infrastructure plans [...]
Civil Engineering Reviews
Two small towns in Colorado had flooding issues in their downtowns. CGI analyzed the watershed, found immediate opportunities to solve the flooding with green streets, helped obtain CDBG funding to design and build the green streets, and provided a regulatory framework that would improve drainage performance as new development comes on line. The project was [...]
