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| #e.22892 | Thursday 10:00AM to 11:30AM
March 7,
2013 | CM | 1.00 |
Incorporating Active Design Guidelines into Contracts and StandardsAPA New York Metro ChapterNew York, NY Free event Nearly 80% of American adults and 50% of children do not get the recommended amount of physical activity. Over the past decade, research has shown how the built environment- the physical surroundings where we live, work, learn, and play- impacts our decisions to be active. The Active Design Guidelines were created through a collaboration of NYC agencies, researchers, planners, and architects to show how these places can be improved to support better health outcomes for individuals and the community.
DASH-NY is hosting a live webinar with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for representatives from local health departments, professional planners and architects, community-based organizations and others interested in learning about effective strategies to promote the use of Active Design throughout the built environment. This webinar will focus on incorporating Active Design into public sector projects, RFPs, contracts, and professional standards.
Speakers include representatives from the New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, Department of Design and Construction, and School Construction Authority.
Participants will learn:
• How the active design guidelines can be used to create design that promotes health
• How to frame the benefits of healthy/sustainable design to different audiences
• Tools and strategies to have active design guidelines incorporated into contracts, RFPs, and professional standards
• Successes and lessons learned by the NYC Department of Design and Construction and NYC School Construction Authority through their experience incorporating the active design guidelines.
More Instructors: Karen Lee Karen K. Lee, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, currently heads the Built Environment Program at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr. Lee is the lead for the NYC Health Department. in its work with 12 city agencies and other non-government partners in the development of the Active Design Guidelines (www.nyc.gov/adg), published in January 2010. Dr. Lee is also lead for NYC’s Health Department in its partnership with the American Institue of Architects New York Chapter in organizing the annual NYC Fit City conferences. Before coming to NYC, she was with the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Joanna Frank Joanna Frank, is Director of Active Design at NYC Department of Design and Construction. Previously she was Director of the FRESH program. The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program is an initiative started by Mayor Bloomberg's Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan and the City Council as a response to the findings of the Food Policy Taskforce study that showed many low income areas of the City are underserved by supermarkets and have the highest rates of diet related disease. In that capacity, she works with New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and New York City Department of Planning to guide and manage the FRESH program to promote access to healthy food. Immediately prior to working on FRESH, Ms. Frank oversaw the design and construction of a LEED Gold certified grocery store in Brooklyn, NY which opened in 2009. Ms. Frank spent the preceding 6 years as a partner of Bright City Development, LLC developing mixed use residential buildings using sustainable design criteria and pioneering the use of green roofs in residential construction. Ms. Frank has spent her career integrating responsible development with financial viability. Ms. Frank is a member of Hungry New York and holds an Architecture Degree from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. E. Bruce Barrett E. Bruce Barrett, NYC School Construction Authority, Vice President, Architecture & Engineering (0 Ratings)
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