BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:DevelopME Committee’s Lunch &\; Learn Event – Meet t he Land Use Designer and Environmental Professional X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230321T233000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230321T233000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DevelopME Committee’s Lunch &\; Learn Event – Meet the La nd Use Designer and Environmental Professional DESCRIPTION:Meet the Land Use Designer and Environmental Professional †“ Defining their Role in the Development Process\n\nJoin MEREDA’s Emer ging Leaders Committee for its next Lunch &\; Learn Event!\n\nIn this second installment of the DevelopME series of panel discussions organiz ed to understand the roles and responsibilities of professionals engaged in development projects\, we introduce a land use designer and an envir onmental professional. While our first panel offered insight from a brok er’s perspective\, this conversation will focus on when you should con sider hiring a land-use design professional and what questions and infor mation they provide to the team. We also explore how (but more important ly\, when) it’s best to engage with an environmental professional and how they can guide the development team on the feasibility of developmen t projects after the initial environmental assessment when teams navigat e challenges associated with environmental impacts.\n\nMeet the Presente rs:\nLucas J. Benedict is a Senior Project Manager and Licensed Professi onal Geologist at Credere Associates\, LLC in Westbrook\, Maine. With ne arly two decades of experience as an Environmental Professional\, he and his Credere ‘associates’ specialize in sustainable Brownfields Prog rams and redevelopment projects across New England. Lucas not only helps private- and public-sector clients mitigate business risks tied to envi ronmental challenges such as ‘Urban Fill’\, hazardous wastes\, and b uilding materials containing PCBs\, asbestos\, and heavy metals\, but al so oversees Environmental Remediation/Construction contracts for the Fed eral Government/Department of Defense\, managing tasks that include reme diation\, abatement\, general construction\, repairs\, and demolition.\n \nHenry Hess is a seasoned Landscape Architect and Project Manager at Se bago Technics. With over a decade of expertise in land and master planni ng\, site design\, due diligence\, planting design\, permitting\, and co nstruction\, Henry’s skills as a Maine Registered Landscape Architect have been instrumental in shaping communities across various cities and towns in Maine.\n\nSince joining Sebago Technics in 2018\, Henry’s lea dership in Landscape Architecture has consistently delivered creative so lutions to complex site challenges. In recognition of his outstanding co ntributions\, he was promoted to the role of Project Manager in 2023. In this capacity\, he Is responsible for overseeing the overall developmen t\, budget\, schedule\, and approval of projects while skillfully mainta ining strong relationships and communication with clients and regulatory authorities.\n\nDevelopME Committee Co-chairs\, Matt Pitzer of Simpson Gumpertz &\; Heger and Gwen Hulit of Bangor Savings Bank will moderat e the program.\n\nThis event is Sponsored by Sebago Technics and Credere Associates\, LLC. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/developme-committees-lunc h-learn-event-meet-the-land-use-designer-and-environmental-professional/ UID:urn:uuid:c5d0be26-cf59-4230-a4f6-24cb997c0fdd STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260504T141205Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T130000 LOCATION:88 Spring Street\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR