Perkins Eastman has been selected to develop a number of key master and community plans at home and abroad.
The firm will create a comprehensive facilities master plan for
Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) that will address the institution’s four campuses, six centers and administrative offices. The system-wide project includes a ten-month evaluation of enrollment and teaching trends. Perkins Eastman will also assist CCAC with filing an EMI zoning plan for its Allegheny campus. "Our role is assessing how they're using space programmatically on all of their campuses," says Alan Schlossberg, with Perkins Eastman. Pennsylvania's largest community college, CCAC operates 1.4 million square feet of space and serves 13,500 students.
In East Liberty, Perkins Eastman will develop a “green vision” plan that is expected to guide ongoing development and investment. “Every local community has a role to play in regional well-being. It's a process that brings together ELDI, the community and a number of organizations working throughout the city, to create a more healthy and sustainable environment, with the idea that such an ambitious goal will have tremendous impact
as a model and require the coordinated efforts of many
different entities," says Stefani Danes, with Perkins Eastman.
On the global front, Perkins Eastman will create a community plan for a 1,136-acre site in Orenburg, Russia. "A new generation of people who have grown up in a non-Soviet society are looking at housing options. This will be a model of a new kind of neighborhood that uses best practices from this country to combine affordability, sustainability and livability,” adds Danes, who says Orenburg needs alternatives to existing high-rise housing.
Writer:
Jennifer BaronSource: Stefani Danes, Alan Schlossberg and Lori Miller, Perkins Eastman
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