Southern Providers
Bell Engineering
Type: Engineering
Founded in Lexington, Kentucky in 1914 by Howard K. Bell, Bell Engineering has earned a solid reputation as a provider of solutions-based, innovative engineering and landscape architecture applications that fulfill the needs of communities and industries around the US.
Bell Engineering employs experts in civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical, operations and value engineering, industrial pretreatment and landscape architecture and urban planning -- all prepared to work with you to solve issues that you encounter.
Berkley Group
Type: Government Consulting
The Berkley Group is a local government consulting firm with experts specializing in administration, executive recruitment, organizational assessment, planning, zoning, environmental program support, finance, public works, project management, community involvement, public safety and more. We bring a collaborative approach to our projects and an array of professional resources. We have strong ties to the Commonwealth of Virginia and understand the challenges facing local governments today.
Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX)
Type: Planning, Policy Advocacy
CPEX is a non-profit organization that coordinates urban, rural and regional planning efforts in Louisiana. They provide best-practice planning models, innovative policy ideas, and technical assistance to individual communities that wish to create and enact master plans dealing with transportation and infrastructure needs, environmental issues, and quality design for the built environment. CPEX brings community members and leaders together and provides guidance as they work toward a shared vision for future growth and development.
Delta Design Build Workshop
Type: Design
Delta Design Build Workshop (Delta DB) is a social impact design-build firm in the Mississippi Delta. We seek to increase equity, particularly racial equity, through affordable housing construction and rehabilitation, planning and creation of public spaces, and job training. We are led by the tenets that process is as important as products, waste is a social construct, and local leadership is necessary to realize impact. Since 2014, Delta DB has worked in partnership with nonprofits, traditionally marginalized communities, and small municipalities throughout the Mississippi Delta to collaboratively develop safe, healthy, and dignified affordable housing and economic opportunity.
Orchestra Partners
Type: Planning and Redevelopment
Orchestra Partners is a planning and redevelopment advisor that helps small/medium sized cities revitalize their Main Street. They do this through a turn-key, 3-step process that highlights why they are so unique: They help finance and implement the plans they create.
Resilience Infrastructure & Disaster Response Center (RIDER)
Type: Sustainable Infrastructure, Disaster Response
RIDER Center is founded on the mission of achieving adaptive capacity and resilience for the communities affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic.
RIDER unites engineers, social scientists, social workers, health, public policy, communication, and information specialists synergistically towards developing emergency plans that fit the distinct needs of both urban and rural communities to solve the real-world problem of the “resilience divide.”
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