The Town of Shallotte is committed to enhancing its Central Business District as the economic, civic and cultural core of the community while activating the beautiful Shallotte River. As part of this commitment, the Town of Shallotte has contracted with the UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) to conceive of and execute on [...]
Vista Field is an adaptive reuse redevelopment of a 103 acre former airfield in Kennewick, WA. CGI provided infrastructure designs during the public charrette. Designs and patterns were developed to reuse (rather than demolish) the runways and taxi ways to achieve significant savings.
Cobb Cavern is a greenfield eco-district masterplanned community on 1700 acres with three neighborhood centers. CGI provided conceptual infrastructure engineering and feedback during the design charrette.
Light infrastructure for a food truck and shipping container cultural center.
For the past six decades the waste inherent in cheap oil, overblown national public works standards, and car-dominance have resulted in gold-plating (incorporating costly features or refinements into something unnecessarily; often in the name of excessive “factors of safety” or “redundancy”). This gold- plating presents barriers to accomplishing good urbanism in the form of initial [...]
Subsidiarity, Cost-Estimating on the Fly, Transect-Based Infrastructure Including Costs
