Through its Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County is looking for ways to improve community health by developing a mobile application to aid in physical and mental wellness. This application will be used as a tool to promote and track the use of parks, trails, and open space and the reported impacts on […]
Primary Partner Type: County Government
Building Lifecycle Utility Cost Analysis
Prince George’s County Parks & Recreation builds, operates, and maintains a number of facilities with significant lifespans. To better understand the impact of capital investment and building code changes that might lead to reducing long term operating costs, the Department seeks a comparative analysis using available utilities usage data from six large, well established facilities. […]
Asset Management UX Design Study
Prince George’s County Parks & Recreation (PGDPR) uses an enterprise asset management (EAM) system and work order processing system operated jointly with other jurisdictions. While the system has been in use for some time, user adoption has been a challenge. To promote greater user adoption and data quality, the county asked the project team to […]
Food Access and Equity in Prince George’s County
The semester was divided into a group of students who studied a comprehensive comprehensive analysis of food equity in Prince George’s County, with a focus on the most vulnerable communities including to determine appropriate definitions of food access, food security, food equity, and to conduct a spatial analysis of Prince George’s county. The students used […]
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Envisioning the Future at Prince George’s Plaza, MD
The semester was divided in 3 projects. For project 3, the studio worked with Prince George’s Planning Department on creating urban design schemes for the Prince George’s Plaza Transit District including analyzing relvevant case studies, site visit to Prince George’s Plaza, site documentation/analysis, and design proposals rooted from historical research while responding to complex contemporary […]
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SOLAR SCHOOLS PROJECT
A 2016 report on Energy and Water Efficiency measures developed to be applied to buildings of the public-school network, as the result of the partnership of Belo Horizonte municipality and the World Bank, pointed out they are supposed to entice an economy equivalent to 48% of expenditures with energy costs. This represents a very substantial […]
Sullivan County Board of Tourism Strategic Recommendations
The Sullivan County Tourism Commission set forth the objective to identify strategies for increasing tourism year-round in Sullivan County and Sullivan. The BUS401 course students were placed in three groups and set to provide end-deliverables of these strategies. The demographics of the population underscored some important populations to target with identified strategies of surveying and […]
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Liberty County Strategic Plan
In 2015, Liberty County (pop. 76,000) invited TxTC to the community. Three catalyzing events resulted in the county working collaboratively with its cities to develop an innovative plan for long-term resiliency. Plans were drafted to build the third loop around Houston, or the Grand Parkway Highway 99 Unincorporated land was subdivided into 900 small lots—only […]