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The 8th Annual Design on the Delaware Conference will offer two general sessions and six sessions in six program tracks and tours.

Click here for a complete listing of conference programs with descriptions and to register.

 

Programs by Topic

 
Community Design (CD)

  • CD1: Penn Park — A New Urban Park & Campus Athletic Amenity
  • CD2: Industry Works — A Land Use and Market Strategy for Philadelphia
  • CD3: Leveraging a Legacy — Infill Philadelphia Industrial Sites
  • CD4: Philadelphia's Race Street Pier
  • CD5: Going Mod — Reducing Housing Costs in Philadelphia with Modular Construction
  • CD6: Imagining the Next 50 — Philadelphia's Percentage for Art Program

Design (DN)

  • DN1: Rivers Casino — A Case Study of Brownfield Redevelopment
  • DN2: An Integrated Approach to Design — A Case Study in STEM Facilities Design
  • DN3: Collaboration with a Visualization Artist to the Benefit of a Project
  • DN4: Integrating Architecture & Engineering for High Performance Design
  • DN5: Lighting the Franklin Institute's New "Changing Earth" & "Electricity" Galleries
  • DN6: Plan for the Central Delaware — Transforming Philadelphia's Waterfront
  • DN7: VisitAbility for Urban Neighborhoods — A Design Charrette

Green/LEED (GL)

  • GL1: Penn Charter Charts Course for Gold
  • GL2: Drop Ceilings, Small Windows & Outdated Systems — Can it still be Green?
  • GL3: Bringing in the Rain — Stormwater Management as an Amenity
  • GL4: Innovative LEED Strategies that Excel in Today's Economy
  • GL5: Bartram's Garden — 3,000 Years of Sustainable Design
  • GL6: Passive House Standard Design & Construction — A Case Study

Planning (PL)

  • PL1: A Preview of Philadelphia's New Zoning Code
  • PL2: Parking Problems in the Walkable City
  • PL3: North Broad Street — Planning Update
  • PL4: Nurturing Sustainability through Campus Planning at Haverford College
  • PL5: Building a Successful Regional Bicycle & Pedestrian Network — The GREAT PA/NJ TIGER—Funded Project
  • PL6: Planning for Compact, Walkable, Mixed Use Development

Practice Management (PM)

  • PM1: Social Networking — The New Tools of our Trade
  • PM2: Risky Business — Insuring the Future of IPD
  • PM3: Legally Green — Law & Liability Summary for Sustainable Design
  • PM4: Transitioning Ownership Effectively — Internal Elevation, Merger, and Acquisition
  • PM5: Design Vs. Construction — Gaps in Technology & Training
  • PM6: Good Plans Gone Bad — Typical Accessibility Errors in Design & Construction

Preservation/Restoration (PR)

  • PR1: Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store — Preservation & Green Design
  • PR2: The Baptist Temple
  • PR3: Preservation & Progress at the University of Pennsylvania — A Case Study of the Historic Music Building Renovation & Addition
  • PR4: Historic Renovation — Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center
  • PR5: Nemours Mansion & Gardens — A Case Study of the Conservation & Maintenance of a Historic Property
  • PR6: Native American Housing — Preservation & Sustainability

Tours (TR)/(FR)

  • TR2: Penn Charter Charts Course for Gold
  • TR3: The Baptist Temple
  • TR4: Bartram's Garden — 3,000 Years of Sustainable Design
  • TR5: Race Street Pier
  • TR6: The Connelly House — Affordable, Sustainable Housing for the Formerly Homeless
  • FR1: TOUR — Penn's Music Building