Greening Brownfield Properties (2010)
Link to Final Report:
Year project was Completed:
2010
Client Organization:
ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc
Client Website:
Secondary Client Organization:
ExxonMobil Environmental Services Company
SNRE Faculty Advisor:
Michael Moore
Master Students Involved in Project:
- Jennifer Casler, MBA/MS Sustainable Systems
- Yang Chen, MA Applied Economics/MS Environmental Policy and Planning
- Joshua Cregger, MS Environmental Policy and Planning
- Scott Kalafatis, Master of Urban Planning/MS Environmental Policy and Planning
- Timothy Meernik, MS Sustainable Systems
- Mukesh Patir, MS Environmental Policy and Planning
- Jingyuan Wang, MLA
Contact Phone:
713-656-4978
Contact e-mail:
Summary of Project Idea:
The project's objective is to produce a framework for ExxonMobil to evaluate the ecological, financial, and social benefits of adopting greening strategies when redeveloping its brownfield properties. This framework will be developed through the assessment of a City of Houston owned brownfield site. Strategies that will be incorporated in this framework and be pursued in our assessment include:
- Generating different "green" landscape designs for a specific brownfield site.
- Assessing the ecological benefits of undertaking the different greening options.
- Determining the social benefits of undertaking the different greening options.
- Capturing the change in property values caused by the conversion of brownfields into greenspaces.