Environmental Planning Workshops

Great Lakes Environmental Planning & the Delta Institute

Courses

Energy Performance Contracting for Public Housing Authorities (PHA’s)

June 4th-8th, 2007 (Chicago)

Location: 77 West Jackson, Metcalf Federal Building, Room 2205, Chicago, IL, 60604

$895 for Public Housing Authorities
$1,350 for Energy Service Corporations

Register for the workshop.

Energy Performance Contacting is HUD’s principal method for PHA’s to raise capital to lower energy costs and make dwelling units more comfortable. This course uses role-playing and a case study approach to give participants the tools to implement EPC and is the only comprehensive course offered in the US. Class size is limited.

View the Press Release.

The agenda is now available to view.

Hotel Information

Union League Club of Chicago
65 W. Jackson Blvd (Next door to the EPC training site)
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 427-7800 for Reservations
Federal government and other workshop participants $169/night not including tax.

(Please make reservations prior to May 1st, 2007. All rooms are based on a first-come, first-served basis. Refer to name of conference "HUD EPC Chicago Meeting" for discounted room rate. Directions and other information about the Union League Club are available. General information about the hotel can be found on the website at www.ulcc.org)

For more information, please contact Eugene Goldfarb

Nuts & Bolts of Redeveloping Contaminated Properties for Local Government

August 27th-August 31st, 2007 (Kansas City)

The Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110 Map

$350

Register for the workshop.

Many urban centers have been left with vacant contaminated land that blights local neighborhood and undermines the local tax base. Participants learn how many communities have overcome obstacles and stimulated successful redevelopment by characterizing and assembling parcels, cleaning them up, and using public funds to attract private redevelopment. Class size is limited.

The agenda is now available to view as a pdf.

Hotel Information

Quarterage Hotel
560 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO 64111
(800) 942-4233

$91/night (Single rate, non-smoking room).
(Hotel is 15 minutes away from the conference site. Free bus service will be provided from the hotel to the discovery center. Please use the name of the conference when making reservations to get the group rate.)

Sheraton Suites Country Club Plaza
770 West 47th Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
(888) 627-7043

$91/night (Single rate, non-smoking room).
(Hotel is 1.5 miles from the conference site. Please use the name of the conference and reference EPA when making reservations to get the group rate.)

For more information, please contact Eugene Goldfarb

The Delta Institute is a non-profit community and economic development organization headquartered in Chicago that is pioneering new, cooperative approaches to economic and environmental improvement. These initiatives seek to integrate environmentalism with community and economic development, working through the tensions sometimes found at the nexus of these two disciplines, and crafting new policies and practices to develop healthy, economically sound communities.

Great Lakes Environmental Planning specializes in environmental training covering such topics as sustainability, environmental assessment, historic preservation including 106 procedures and tax incentives, energy efficient rehab and construction, and Brownfield redevelopment.

For more information on these and other training programs, please contact
Elise Zelechowski
Delta Institute
312.554.0900 ext. 20

All program correspondence can be made to the Delta Institute.