RAMSA Partner Randy Correll will present "East Hampton, the Enduring Summer Colony" at the National Arts Club members' event on May 23, 2013. Mr. Correll will dispcuss RAMSA's contributions to preserving and reimagining East Hampton's architecture and culture, from repurposing colonial-era farm buildings to create a new town hall, to improving early 20^th century civic institutions—the East Hampton Library and Guild Hall—to reinterpreting a modernist artist's house studio for 21^st century living.

RAMSA Partners Meghan McDermott and Graham S. Wyatt will provide a preview of RAMSA's Navy Yard Master Plan 2013 Update during the Urban Land Institute's tour of Philadelphia's Navy Yard as part of ULI's Place Making 2013 conference. The Plan provides a framework to attract the investment in infrastructure, open space, building renovations, and construction necessary to begin establishing the Navy Yard as a progressive, urban campus for office, industrial, research, and residential activity. With the new update, the Navy Yard now proposes to grow to 6.2 million square feet of office and research space, 5.7 million square feet for industrial use, and 1,018 residential units, representing significant private investment and supporting more than 10,000 additional jobs over the next 15 years.

The tour will visit the U.S. Department of Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB HUB); the Navy's Yard's Corporate Center, which includes GlaxoSmithKline's new LEED Double-Platinum offices at 5 Crescent Drive; and the Urban Outfitters Headquarters campus.

ULI’s Place Making 2013 conference (June 24-25, 2013) at The Inn at Penn will provide practical information on the elements that are essential to increasing profits in mixed-use development, guidance as to where and how to get financing, new information on demographic trends and policies that will affect your business, and connections to potential business partners. Registration is now open.

RAMSA Partners Kevin Smith and Graham S. Wyatt will present "Classrooms and Beyond: The Latest in Business School Learning Environments" at the Society for College and University Planning's 48^th annual international conference in San Diego. Joining them on the panel will be Ginger Breon, Assistant Dean for Administration and Chief Information Officer of the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, and Anna Chrulkiewicz, Associate Dean of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University.

The session will discuss business education learning environment case studies that explore the relationship between pedagogical goals and classroom design choices, including the effective use and integration of instructional technologies. Participants, organized into groups of five or six, will brainstorm and identify desirable characteristics of learning environments that best support effective learning for particular business education disciplines. Learning outcomes will include identifying, analyzing, and assessing key features of high-performing learning environments; determining methods for supporting effective business education learning objectives with improved classroom design; and comparing and contrasting discipline-specific learning environment designs and the ways in they can these contribute to effective learning.

SCUP–48 will focus on cultivating integration, providing a unique opportunity to bring all sectors of higher education together. Registration for the conference is now open.