HUD REBUILD BY DESIGN: AIA EBlast Encourages Firms of All Sizes to Consider Competing

From the AIA Eblast announcing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development design competition with responses to RFQs due July 19:

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force just launched REBUILD BY DESIGN, a multi-stage design competition to address the pressing needs of those still displaced by Hurricane Sandy. Billions of dollars of recovery funding will be guided by the proposals that are submitted through this competition.

Staff at HUD has reached out to the AIA and to me personally because they recognize the talent, passion, and creativity of our members is essential to the success of this effort. Although several of the awards will likely go to large firms who will make proposals for regional infrastructure, there is room for projects of all scales and I am confident that firms of any size have a fair shot in this competition, if they are innovative in their thinking and purposeful in their approach.

Link to the full Eblast.
Link to the REBUILD BY DESIGN webpage.