Hurricane Sandy

VIDEO: Flood-Protection Plans Worth $298M Go to Hoboken, N.J., Meadowlands Towns

Construction Equipment Guide: Longtime northern New Jersey residents will likely never forget Superstorm Sandy’s brutal impact in the fall of 2012. Now, new projects in the Meadowlands and Hoboken areas aim to reduce the chances of any future storms causing so much flooding in the region. North Jersey’s flood protection plans took a key step […]

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SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters Wins 2023 Obel Award

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Architectural Record: Living Breakwaters, a 2,400-linear-foot coastal resiliency project conceived to minimize future flooding and erosion risk along the Superstorm Sandy–ravaged south shore of Staten Island while enhancing the marine ecosystem of the Lower New York Bay, has been recognized with the 2023 Obel Award. Now in its fifth cycle, the annual international architecture prize—a flagship program of the Copenhagen-based

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New Jersey Reallocates $59.4 Million in Superstorm Sandy Relief Funds

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Shore Link Network: The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has made public a proposed amendment to the Superstorm Sandy Action Plan for public comment. This amendment aims to reallocate $59.44 million in Superstorm Sandy Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds towards resiliency projects and Hurricane Ida recovery initiatives. The Deputy Commissioner of DCA,

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5 YEARS LATER: REFLECTIONS FROM THE DESIGNERS

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On June 20, 2013, the Rebuild by Design (RBD) design competition for rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy was launched by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and President Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. The competition asked multi-disciplinary teams of architects, planners, designers, engineers and academics to work with the Sandy Region to develop

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REBUILDING WITH RESILIENCE: LESSONS FROM THE REBUILD BY DESIGN COMPETITION AFTER HURRICANE SANDY

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ABOUT The six winning* Hurricane Sandy Design Competition projects were selected to demonstrate innovative approaches for rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Sandy in ways that will enhance physical, social, economic, and environmental resilience. Two years into implementation, these projects are providing important lessons about how officials at all levels of government can design and construct infrastructure projects

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ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT REPORT

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Best Practices for Government in Community Engagement As the seven funded Hurricane Sandy Design Competition projects are implemented, Rebuild has observed many creative community engagement strategies from the project teams. “Best Practices for Elements of Engagement” captures these observations, highlighting effective engagement practices among the seven projects. Demonstrate the Value of Community Participation Make Sharing

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STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL GOVERNMENT-COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

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In November 2014, Rebuild by Design brought together community leaders, design and planning experts, and government officials to discuss their experiences in creating and implementing large-scale infrastructure projects. They also highlighted key strategies for continuing to make government-community collaboration effective, even as government agencies continue to engage community stakeholders in the development of their Hurricane

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POLICY ROUNDTABLE: PROMOTING RESILIENCE IN POLICY AND PRACTICE

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Throughout the Rebuild By Design Hurricane Sandy Design Competition, teams encountered policy, regulatory, and planning barriers that shaped their design proposals and ideas, which demonstrated that many existing frameworks do not fully support resilience. As communities move towards implementing innovative, resilient projects, these challenges could become even more problematic. To ensure the policy lessons learned

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VIDEO: Flood-Protection Plans Worth $298M Go to Hoboken, N.J., Meadowlands Towns

SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters Wins 2023 Obel Award

New Jersey Reallocates $59.4 Million in Superstorm Sandy Relief Funds

5 YEARS LATER: REFLECTIONS FROM THE DESIGNERS

REBUILDING WITH RESILIENCE: LESSONS FROM THE REBUILD BY DESIGN COMPETITION AFTER HURRICANE SANDY

ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT REPORT

STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL GOVERNMENT-COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

POLICY ROUNDTABLE: PROMOTING RESILIENCE IN POLICY AND PRACTICE

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