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Fort Adams Trust
Board Members. And NCA Principle John K. Grosvenor, AIA is
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NEWPORT COLLABORATIVE
ARCHITECTS
AND FORT ADAMS TRUST RECEIVE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AWARD
NEWPORT, R.I. (October 00, 2009) –Newport Collaborative Architects,
Inc.(NCA) and Fort Adams Trust received the 2009 First Annual
Achievement in Rhode Island Sustainable Tourism Award (ARISTA). ARISTA
was established by the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development
Laboratory of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council. The distinction
rewards individuals, groups or agencies that work to integrate
environmental, social, historical, cultural and economic planning in
their tourism development work.
NCA has been Fort Adams Trusts’ architects for nearly a decade. In
2000, NCA created the Fort Adams Facilities Master Plan that engaged the
community and led to the fund-raising and implementation of over $8
million of improvements to the National Historic Landmark. NCA’s
restoration projects include rehabilitating the North Casemates into an
event facility and museum, designing a waterproofing system for the
earthen ramparts, converting five casemates into a reproduction of 19th
century barracks to be used for youth groups, civic groups, re-enactors
and conference attendees, and restoring the Redoubt and Jail.
“Fort Adams Redoubt and Jail represent one of the first State-owned
historic properties to meet the US Green Building Council’s LEED
standards,” said NCA Principal John K. Grosvenor, AIA.
“Fort Adams Trust was excited to work with NCA to carry out an
authentic restoration and reconstruction while at the same time
incorporating energy saving and sustainability goals to the maximum
extent. The results have been excellent, and we are able to explain to
our visitors the many interesting features of the building and the
benefits of green construction, beginning with the fact that restoring
an old structure preserves all of the embodied energy represented by the
materials and labor that went into building the structure in the first
place,” said Eric Hertfelder, Executive Director, Fort Adams Trust.
“We have some great agencies doing great work across America,” said
Dr. Robert D. Billington, President of the Blackstone Valley Tourism
Council. “It’s time we shed some light on their work. We hope the ARISTA
will continue to grow in importance and size through the years,”
Billington added.
The Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory,
established in 2005, is certified in Tourism Governance under the United
Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO.org)
as a program of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC).
The BVTC was established in 1985 and has recently been recognized in
Destination Development worldwide by the World Travel and Tourism
Council (WTTC.org). The mission of the
Sustainable Tourism Laboratory (Sustainabletourismlab.com)
is to help any community intent on doing so, to develop tourism in a
sustainable way. Using the principles of Civic Tourism, Geotourism and
Sustainable Tourism, the Sustainable Tourism Laboratory works to share
its knowledge and expertise with other tourism communities. For more
information contact (401) 724-2200 or visit
www.sustainabletourismlab.com
NCA was established in Newport, R.I. in 1981. With offices located at
38 Washington Square in Newport and 333 Westminster Street in
Providence, the full-service firm is one of the region’s leading firms
and specializes in architecture, historic preservation, planning and
interior design. NCA’s residential, preservation, planning, education
and hospitality projects have earned over 85 national and regional
design awards. NCA’s principals John K. Grosvenor, AIA, J. Michael
Abbott, AIA, Glenn R. Gardiner, AIA, LEED AP, Mohamad Farzan, AIA, RIBA,
James Libby, AIA, LEED AP, Jack Evans, and Scott Winkler, AIA, LEED AP
maintain professional registration in R.I., Mass., N.H., C.T., N.J., I.L.
and S.C., as well as certification from the National Council of
Architectural Registration Boards that permits practice throughout the
United States. For more information contact (401) 846-9583, (401)
272-2144 or visit
www.ncarchitects.com.
Fort Adams Trust was founded in 1994 as a nonprofit 501 (c) (3)
organization and is charged by its articles of incorporation with
directing and supporting the stabilization, restoration, maintenance,
and operation of Fort Adams as a historic site; conducting educational,
cultural, and interpretive programs and activities; generating revenues
that will financially sustain the Trust's programs; conducting
fundraising activities to finance the stabilization, restoration and
maintenance of the Fort during the short and long term; holding special
events; operating a museum; employing a staff; maintaining a membership;
and all other business consistent with the operation of an historic
site. The Trust has prepared, with the help of past grants, a strategic
master plan that encompasses these diverse requirements. For more
information contact (401) 841-0707 or visit
www.fortadams.org
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