UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An upcoming Penn State Extension land-use webinar will deal with utilizing cargo delivery containers to create housing.
Presenting the 75-minute webinar at midday July 19 shall be Della Rucker, member of the American Institute of Licensed Planners, an authorized financial developer, and principal on the Smart Financial system Workshop.
In keeping with webinar organizers, typical housing development is simply too pricey and rigid to satisfy many pressing housing wants. By using delivery containers for housing design and development, communities can profit from scalable manufacturing of housing models and parts, amongst different benefits.
Rucker will focus on the advantages of “cargotecture” design and development for residents, owners, planning and housing businesses, and communities. She additionally will handle the important thing necessities for efficiently implementing this method on a bigger scale. Attendees will find out how cargo containers can contribute to the creation of economical, disaster-resilient housing and promote group vitality, notably for traditionally deprived communities.
Opting to fabricate these housing models off-site, fairly than developing them on-site, affords important benefits when it comes to price per unit, development high quality and code compliance, organizers stated. This method additionally permits for personalization of the housing models with architectural remedies that go well with the material of the group.
The webinar will discover how container-based development addresses particular challenges confronted by typical development and might result in benefits in environmental resilience, price efficiencies and suppleness in response to altering life circumstances.
Attendees additionally will find out about obstacles related to container development, together with fabrication price components and misperceptions about zoning and constructing code impacts. The webinar will cowl potential purposes and techniques of container-based development, in addition to establish potential obstacles to its implementation in a selected context.
“Utilizing Cargo Delivery Containers to Create Housing” is the primary webinar in Penn State Extension’s Summer time/Fall 2023 Land-Use Webinar Sequence, which runs month-to-month till Nov. 15. The sequence is aimed toward informing municipal elected and appointed officers, planners, landowners, farmers, and group organizations about land-use points and choices of their communities.
All webinars are recorded and out there for future viewing. Different packages within the sequence will embody:
— Aug. 16: “Pennsylvania WalkWorks: Pennsylvania Division of Well being Funding for Strolling, Biking and Accessibility?”
— Sept. 20: “Adaption-Innovation Principle and Group Planning.”
— Oct. 18: “Accent Dwelling Models: Eradicating Limitations and Encouraging Development From the Floor Up.”
— Nov. 15: “Planner’s Use of Social Media.”
The price of the webinar sequence is $50 for all 5 periods, or $95 for all 5 periods for individuals who wish to obtain AICP certification-maintenance credit from the American Planning Affiliation. The associated fee is also $95 for all 5 periods for skilled engineers needing PDH credit. As well as, registered panorama architects can obtain continuing-education credit for a price of $65.
For anybody all for a selected matter from the sequence, particular person session registration is out there for a price of $15 per session.
For extra info, contact Peter Wulfhorst at 570-296-3400 or by e-mail at ptw3@psu.edu. To register for the webinars, go to the Penn State Extension web site.
