Research Fellow
Center for Sustainable Communities
Associate Professor
Dept of Community & Regional Planning
Temple University
Mr. Nalbandian joined the Center for Sustainable Communities in March
2002 as a Research Fellow. He has more than 35 years of experience as
practitioner, manager, consultant and teacher in earth and environmental
sciences and environmental planning. He has directed and participated
in: geologic and hydrologic investigations for the planning and design
of major land development projects in the U.S. and abroad; environmental
investigations and remediation of hundreds of industrial and commercial
facilities; major environmental impact studies of regional
transportation systems; policy formulations, planning and implementation
for mined land reclamation programs and projects; and geological and
geochemical exploration for metallic ores and petroleum in the U.S.,
Canada and Africa. Mr. Nalbandian was Visiting Professor at the
University of Texas and University of Pennsylvania and Associate
Professor of Planning at Howard University.
Mr. Nalbandian recently consulted to the National
Cathedral, Washington, D.C. on the stormwater management component of
the restoration plan for the Olmsted Woods, part of the Cathedral
enclave. Together with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and
Andropogon Associates, he has conducted a series of environmental
studies for a new master plan for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor
campuses. He was a member of the core team that planned the reuse of
Denver's Stapleton International Airport, consulting on geology,
hydrology, geomorphology, hazardous waste investigations and remediation
plans. He has consulted to the World Bank on metropolitan planning
projects in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mumbai (Bombay), India. From 1988
through 1996, Mr. Nalbandian coordinated and directed more than 200
environmental investigations and remediation projects for Ford Motor
Company and its subsidiaries at sites in the U.S., Canada, Australia and
Europe. In Woodlands, Texas, a 17,000-acre new town for 120,000
residents near Houston, he recommended a "natural" storm drainage system
that saved $14.2 million in front end construction costs and comprises
the major part of the town's open space.
Mr. Nalbandian is a member of the American Institute
of Professional Geologists, a licensed Professional Geologist in
Pennsylvania and Alaska, a Charter Member of the American Institute of
Certified Planners, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.
