NCI Director, Bill Lennertz, participated in a presentation three weeks ago at Greenbuild with former USGBC chair, Sandy Wiggins from Consilience LLC and Jennifer Rezeli from ReVision Architects, both NCI certificate holders. The session featured lessons from Sandy and Jenn’s sustainable charrette practice as well as content from the NCI Sustainable Charrette Summit held last [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Benefits of Charrettes'
Notes from the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference in Boston, MA
December 11th, 2008 · Comments Off
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · Charrette Organization and Management · NCI Publications/Resources
NCI presents Sustainable Charrettes at Greenbuild in Boston this week
November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
NCI Executive Director, Bill Lennertz, will join Sandy Wiggins and Jennifer Rezeli in session PL08 called, Sustainability Immersion: Community Change through Sustainable Design Charrettes on November 21st at 9 AM. The session is based on work from the NCI Sustainable Neighborhood Charrette Curriculum Summit, held in Chicago last June, hosted by Farr Associates and sponsored [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · Public Participation · Trainings/Events
Free Scripted Presentation on the NCI Charrette System
October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
How can you concisely describe the NCI Charrette System™ to elected officials, commissioners or community members? Answer: Download and present the free NCI Charrette System™ scripted PowerPoint presentation. With the NCI Charrette System scripted PowerPoint, you can show the slides and read the script to describe the benefits of public involvement, what a charrette is [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · NCI Publications/Resources
Tips for selling charrettes
October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
One of the most common questions we receive at NCI is how to convince a sponsoring agency or client to do a charrette for their project. Some sponsors are concerned that charrettes take too much time and/or are too expensive. Here are a few benefit statements for making the case to use a charrette. Charrettes [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes
Planning Sustainably – Without a Crystal Ball
October 8th, 2008 · Comments Off
“…we should use the time-tested, vernacular, pervasive, and virtuous Charrette as a sustainable planning process.”
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes
Free Scripted Presentation on the NCI Charrette System
September 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
How can you concisely describe the NCI Charrette System to elected officials, commissioners or community members? Answer: Download and present the free NCI Charrette System scripted PowerPoint presentation. With the NCI Charrette System scripted PowerPoint, you can show the slides and read the script to describe the benefits of public involvement, what a charrette is [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · NCI Publications/Resources · Public Participation
Tip of the Month: Budget slashed? Try running your own charrette
July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
In response to shrinking project budgets, more and more planning agencies are developing the in-house capacity to conduct charrettes. Director of Fayetteville Long Range Planning, Karen Minkel, has assembled a staff of planners and designers who possess the diverse talents from both planning and design disciplines necessary to run a community charrette. Last year, Karen [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · Charrette Preparation
Tip of the Month: True collaboration solves complex problems
June 12th, 2008 · Comments Off
For some time now we have been urging our students not to think of a charrette as a public involvement process but rather as an accelerated, collaborative design process. Although charrettes include a successful method for involving broad groups of stakeholders, the power of the charrette goes beyond its role as a design-based public involvement [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes
Tip of the Month: Charrettes, the antidote to a multi-tasking world
May 14th, 2008 · Comments Off
We live in an age of multi-tasking. As I write this piece I am distracted by the multiple windows open on my computer. My email program alerts me every time a new message arrives, the phone rings as people try to reach me with unrelated issues, colleagues stop by with questions. Computers and the Internet [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes
Tip of the Month: Keeping the momentum years after the charrette in Hercules, California
April 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
One of the case studies in The Charrette Handbook takes place in Hercules, California. It chronicles a charrette that took place in 2000 to plan an urban center for the suburban town. Dover, Kohl and Partners created a form-based code that has successfully guided development under the charrette vision of a traditional town center. Since [...]
Categories: Benefits of Charrettes · Plan Implementation





