The AIA New Jersey Public Awareness Committee Presents Transportation in a Post Pandemic Era

Public transportation played a critical role during COVID and will continue to do so as we navigate the road to recovery. Public transit provided bus and rail service so that essential workers can get to hospitals, pharmacies, grocery stores, and all the other places we who stayed home needed to support us. The crisis underscored how important is functional transit, to keep people and purchased objects moving using an established equitable system of safe, clean buses, trains, and subways.

The better design solutions to Transportation post-COVID will be those that evolve from the bottom up; increasing upon their spontaneous success, enhancing it forward.

Learning Objectives:

1. Health: Participants will learn what design changes are expected and/ or necessary to ensure greater protection of the physical health and well-being of all transportation and facility occupants and users post COVID, what each municipality will need to do to accept changes in transportation post-COVID, like greater social distancing, changes in queuing, more hands-free operation and circulation throughout the transportation system.

2. Safety: Participants will learn what code changes may be necessary, municipal rules for safety. The presentation will demonstrate architecturally, what will that look like to protect occupants, users, and any others affected by buildings or sites from harm.

3. Health: Participants will learn how municipalities can protect and enhance the emotional, and social well-being of transportation occupants, users, and any others affected by buildings and sites by properly communicating and demonstrating the elevated health and safety measures put in place. This education and knowledge will calm and relieve the users, reducing stress and anxiety as people return to using public transportation post-COVID.

4. Welfare: Participants will learn those aspects of professional practice that enable equitable access, elevate the human experience, encourage social interaction, and benefit the environment. Similar to restaurants seating in the street, transportation and associated circulation will need to spill for safe separation. This may mean changes in zoning, street closures, creating pedestrian commercial zones, Architecturally, creating bazar atmosphere or farmers market tents or social gathering spaces. These changes elevate the human experience, encourage social interaction, and enable more equitable access.

Speakers:

Suzanne DiGeronimo, FAIA

As President of DiGeronimo Architects Ms. DiGeronimo, has over 30 years of experience in architecture. Her project management expertise focuses on quality control with strict compliance to schedule and cost controls. She has steered the firm to deliver a quality architectural product to clients, including public agencies and private businesses. The firm’s size allows Ms. DiGeronimo’s total personal commitment to each project and to each client. Her intimate knowledge of each project ensures successful completion.

As Managing Principal, Ms. DiGeronimo establishes the firm’s overall goals and objectives and coordinates their implementation. She applies Quality Assurance/Quality Control management techniques to guide each project. She has trained architects, across the U.S in Quality Management for the AIA. She has received training from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Total Quality Management (TQM) practice and principles and is knowledgeable in ISO 9000 procedures.

Suzanne is licensed to practice architecture in 7 states. She is an NJ Professional Planner, Certified Interior Designer, and member of NCARB. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from The Cooper Union School of Architecture.

Richard Schaefer, PE

Richard Schaefer is the Chief Engineer of Design and Environmental for NJ TRANSIT and has served in that role since 2019 leading the capital planning effort, in-house architectural and engineering design services, environmental and energy group, and the standards and quality group. A structural bridge engineer by discipline, Rich has over 23 years of diversified experience designing and building infrastructure projects in the northeast region and around the country varying from simple overpass replacement to complex cable-supported bridge rehabilitation. He has extensive experience building and implementing capital programs with a focus on buildable solutions that make the most of the dollars spent. Rich also serves as an adjunct professor at NJIT where he teaches a master’s class in bridge design. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

And Moderated by AIA NJ Advocacy Consultant, Stacey Ruhle Kliesch, AIA

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