Martin Sell, AIA, Horizon Design Build Manage, Madison

      As planners and facilitators, architects find themselves in a lucrative position with the ability to help develop contaminated industrial property. However, land development-especially the development of contaminated property-can be scary. Often, the stumbling block to a successful remediation project is the need for facilitation between many different entities such as government agencies, landowners, utilities, and remediation engineers. We’ll help you discover how architects can be those facilitators.

Learning objectives:

• Identify contaminated properties with potential for development and structure land purchase agreements that benefit architects and owners
• Facilitate decision-making between diverse interest groups in a brownfield redevelopment project
• Minimize risk related to the development of contaminated properties and analyze both the short- and long-term benefits of real estate opportunities.