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Context-Sensitive Design Solutions
Session: Context-Sensitive Design Solutions April 1, 8:45 AM Scott Bradley, ASLA Ronald S. DeNadai, P.E. Ed Hassinger, P.E. Doug Mann, ASLA Roads and highways are vital to establishing community connections, creating memorable transportation facilities, ensuring facilities accommodate the community’s needs, preserving the natural environment and providing safe access to all modes of transportation. These elements comprise what is entailed in delivering context-sensitive solutions. How these elements come together is presented through case studies that use a context-sensitive approach. In addition, this presentation provides examples of how communities and public agencies are working together to determine how road improvements are made. Since public concerns about quality of life continue to increase, context-sensitive design is essential to neighborhood preservation and economic development. Context-Sensitive Design Solutions Author and Copyright Information Copyright 2003 by author Contact Information: Scott Bradley, ASLA has 19 years of varied private and public experience as a landscape architect in Minnesota and administers planning, funding and implementation of multiple statewide departmental and federal landscape programs. Bradley is also a member of the National Transportation Research Board's committee on Landscape and Environmental Design. Ronald S. DeNadai, P.E. is Vice President and National Director of Surface Transportation for with Edwards and Kelsey and has 30 years of experience working on surface transportation projects throughout the United States. DeNadai is a recognized leader on environmental issues and has authored numerous Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) that include context sensitive solutions. De Nadai has guest lectured on numerous environmental and CSS issues at the University of Pennsylvania. Ed Hassinger, P.E. is a District Engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation directing District 6-0 in St. Louis. Hassinger is overseeing two of the largest public works projects in the country that underscore the context-sensitive solutions process. The projects, setting a nationwide precedent for success in applying CSS, are The New I-64 ($800 million) and the new Mississippi River Bridge Crossing ($1 billion), both in St. Louis. Doug Mann, ASLA is a Vice President and National Director of Transportation Enhancement for HNTB Corporation. He is involved in the development and management of the urban design and planning functions associated with all context-sensitive solutions projects. Mann is seen as a national leader on CSS and has directed CSS training programs. |