Amy Chester from Rebuild By Design talks about the initiative's regional approach to designing and developing resiliency projects.

1. Coming Together to
Rebuild the Sandy Region
Amy Chester, Managing Director
Rebuild by Design
achester@rebuildbydesign.org

2. TWO YEARS AGO..

3. 3
PHYSICAL RESILIENCE

4. and
SOCIAL RESILIENCE

5. Managing risks and uncertainties

6. Center for
American
Progress
Report

7. What is Rebuild by Design?

8. GOVERNMENT +
PARTNERS

10. 10 TEAMS
1 REGION
• Architects
• Engineers
• Scientists
• Academics
• Urban
Designers
• Planners
• Water Experts
• Policy and
Finance
Experts
• Artists

11. WOULD YOU BET THE HOUSE ON THIS?
Image by OMA

12. COLLPARBOOCRESASTION

13. ARCHITECTURE
IMAGE: OMA TEAM

14. LANDSCAPE
IMAGE: SCAPE TEAM

15. URBAN DESIGN
IMAGE: PENN DESIGN / OLIN

16. URBAN PLANNING
IMAGE: OMA TEAM

17. REGIONAL APPROACH
IMAGE: WXY/West8

19. ALL SCALES AND TIME
SCALES and TIME
IMAGE: BIG TEAM

25. 10 Projects | 1 Region

26. Q: How is a Wall Not a Wall?
THE BIG U: The BIG Team

27. Q: How do we turn our backyard in to our front yard,
protect from flooding and provide new economic activity?
REGIONAL
RESILIENCE
NEW MEADOWLANDS: MIT + ZUS + Urbanisten

28. Q: How do we maintain our economy, ecology and
culture given new climate realities?
Resilience and the Beach: Sasaki/ARUP/Rutgers

29. Q: How can we manage water comprehensively?
RESIST, DELAY, STORE, DISCHARGE: OMA

31. $920 Million in Federal
Disaster Funds

32. $380 Million for New
Jersey Projects

33. IMPLEMENTATION

34. IMPLEMENTATION
Grantees
NYS, NJ, NYC, CT
Agencies
Housing and Urban
Development (HUD)
-Register Notice
-Technical Advisory
Committees
-Oversight of Funds
Rebuild by Design
-Support Community
Coalitions
-Additional Research
-Spread the Word in the
Region and Beyond
Stakeholder Coalitions
-Hold Everyone
Accountable

35. LESSONS LEARNED
• Do not assume we understand
the problems
• We must act regionally
• We must act collaboratively:
Our networks are
interdependent.
• We cannot separate the human
from the physical
• Stakeholders must be included
from the beginning

36. • There are new players in
charge, how do they
understand the depth of
the projects?
• How do we keep the
community coalitions
together – what is an
ongoing support
mechanism?
• How do we ensure the
innovation lasts through
value engineering and
budget cuts?
• How can we meet
expectations?
OPPORTUNITIES AND
CHALLENGES

38. POLICY,
FINANCE,
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT,
RESARCH,
and
REPLICABILITY IN OTHER
REGIONS

39. AT RISK
IMAGE: BIG TEAM