The NJ Brownfields Assistance Center serves New Jersey communities by providing free training and guidance on how to get brownfields cleaned up for productive redevelopment. Their work includes assistance to community groups developing a strategy for moving local brownfields toward redevelopment, identification of funding and financing sources as well as guidance through the environmental regulatory process.
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Interior design students Shela Picon placed 1st for Night Owl Cafe and Constance Chu for the Sprout: Wellness Center, work they completed in their second year interior design studio with Prof. Goldman.
News post submitted by Dr. Rima Taher.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but walkability could be evaluated by algorithms, according to new research from an unconventional professor in NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design.
"Most people assume that architects have some tool to visualize or analyze how people will use the building. It's not true, they don't," explained Assistant Professor Mathew Schwartz.
Working closely with New Jersey Transit staff, municipal planners, and other stakeholders, a fall studio at HCAD taught by Darius Sollohub will conceptually investigate both the interior and exterior areas of Newark Penn Station. The studio will serve as a design vanguard that anticipates a $190 million Request for Proposals that will soon be issued for improvements to Newark’s Penn Station and its environs. Concepts developed by students and based on stakeholder input will diversify the ideas that the future design teams can work with to improve the station.
On behalf of Newark’s Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Junius Williams, the city’s historian and chair of the Museum Advisory Committee (MAC), with a team of students from NJIT, is leading the effort to transform the 1st Precinct police building, an historic symbol of oppression, into a community museum and a home for the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery.
Hillier College Prof. Tony Schuman is being recognized again this year with the Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence. Originally awarded last year, celebrations and the official award were postponed until this year. Schuman has also earned the 2021 designation of Master Teacher from the provost's office.
The recently formed Newark Design Collaborative (NDC) is engaging four students in a research project to study how other schools of architecture across the country have structured their community design engagement initiatives, from issues of scope and mission to practical details like funding and liability. The student team members conducting the research include Ebony Payne, Sam Roberts, Noelle Kruse and Silas McBride.
A virtual museum of robot design is now open that curates the work of faculty, staff and students from Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Newark College of Engineering and Ying Wu College of Computing.
