PAST SELECTED MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES

 

Vieux Carre Commission, New Orleans, Louisiana-We provided a code analysis for historic structures. We prepared a comparison chart of building types. We identified and enumerated the building characteristics which did not meet code requirements and we reviewed all regulatory codes affecting those buildings or proposed new construction.

 

Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana-We provided a study, which included a historic evaluation of the facility and the legislation enacted relative to the Charity Hospital System. We prepared an overview of programs and services, studied the clinical training for both physicians and allied health personnel, and gathered information relative to the patient origin, socio-economic characteristics of the population, and the demographic characteristic of the population.

 

State of Louisiana/Delivery of Health Care Services-We did a study that have determined that the Charity Hospital System in New Orleans was in the need of expertise and assistance concerning health care. Our responsibility was to provide for the State, a Health Care Planning Program as related to the Health Care Delivery goals and recommendations.

 

State of Louisiana Residential Program of Requirements for the Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children-This study was to describe a co-educational Residential Center for the short-term, structured, individualized treatment of 300 emotionally disturbed children and adolescents in Louisiana's health services Area Region I, composed of Planning Districts I and III. Our mission of the Residential Center was to improve the mental health status of the younger population of the State in response to the increasing number of emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

 

Department of Transportation, State of Louisiana-Right-of-Way Acquisition & Relocation Study-We worked with the Department of Transportation in developing for the public relocation assistance programs and acquisitions. The Mississippi River Bridge in New Orleans was constructed, and later required the addition of a second bridge. This necessitated the State having to purchase extensive pieces of property in the downtown district. Accordingly, the Department of Transportation and our company worked together not only to ensure timely acquisitions and relocation but to encourage to the degree possible affected individuals and businesses, to carefully evaluate their possibilities for relocation within Orleans Parish.

 

Department of Natural Resources, State of Louisiana-We were commissioned by The Department of Natural Resources to provide an energy conservation program proposal relative to Class A, B, and C audits. Their request was based upon their need to develop a phased development that would allow materials and procedures to be thoroughly tested before full-scale distribution.

 

Department of Natural Resources- We examined the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' mandatory responsibilities and operating programs. We then developed a uniform flexible prototype for the State of Louisiana, and in compliance with Federal requirements for public education/participation. We ensured that a coordinated public education/participation strategy was developed and implemented corresponding to major developments in the technical work performed by all participating agencies in and for the State of Louisiana.

 

Department of Natural Resources/Weeks Island Channel/New Iberia- The State of Louisiana and the Federal government required that an alternative means for the development of a channel from the Port of New Iberia/Weeks Island Strategic Petroleum Area to the Gulf of Mexico be studied. As a result of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve program that was mandated by Congress in 1975, the United States was mandated to provide enough petroleum reserves to minimize the effect of any future interruption in the oil supply.