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connecticut’s industrial heritage

Businesses Approved or Now Operating In

Bridgeport’s EcoTech Park: • Dominion Fuel Cell – 15MW, 15,000 homes

• Green Energy Park – 22 AC on landfill, 9000 solar panels,

2 fuel cells, windmills; 5MW

• 2 Anaerobic Digesters – Food Waste & Sludge (new law

for commercial food waste)

• Compost & Greenhouse Facility/ Urban Agriculture

• Mattress & Book Recycling (mattress law in effect now, tires

next)

• Bio-Fuel Production – brown grease (instead of burning);

sends to Santa for mixing – 2020 – 20% biofuels

• Algae – Sea Green Organics liquid fertilizer

Businesses Approved or Now Operating In

Bridgeport’s EcoTech Park:

• Enviro-Express – Liquified Natural Gas filling station, facility

for vehicle conversion planned. (Fracking??)

• District Heating Loop – hot water

• Green Workforce Housing – 317 units, $150M

• Flexi-Pave permeable paving – recycled rubber

• Autoclave – Hospital wast

• Green Depot – green building supplies

Eco-Tech Park Themes: • Industrial Ecology, Industrial Symbiosis

• Policy:

- Environmental

- Economic

- Social

• Green Technologies:

- Urban Aquaculture, Agriculture

- Renewable Energy

- Recycled materials

• Environmental Planning:

- Green Infrastructure

- Brownfields

- Affordable Housing

- Coastal Planning & Climate Change

• Measurement & Analysis– green gains

• Economic Development:

- Bringing Jobs and Manufacturing Back to the U.S.

- Public/Private Partnerships

• Related Social Movements:

- Maker Movement

- Social Justice

- Local Self-Reliance

Some of the Client’s Questions:

• Who can we attract?

• What kinds of infrastructure are needed?

• What kinds of marketing?

• What kinds of policies?

Bridgeport Eco-Tech Park Project Components for Spring 2015:

This exciting, growing, and innovative initiative has many moving parts and lacks a body

of information and study that can be used to develop a public awareness, marketing

and communication plan. Initial efforts for spring of 2015 will be comprised of the

following work through UConn courses:

• LAND 4450 Landscape Architecture Capstone: District Mapping & Visioning

• LAND 3230W Environmental Planning and Landscape Design: Supporting research

and writing for work above in the form of Literature Reviews, Comparative Case

Studies, Land-based Eco-technology Research & Programming

• EVST 4000W Environmental Studies Capstone: Individual students will select topics,

based on their interests, for their capstone research paper that provide information,

analysis or examples to support the Eco-Tech Park development

• POLS 3412 Global Environmental Politics: One part of the class will work on policy

research with a global comparative emphasis to provide support for developing new

and needed local and state policy or examine policy problems in relation to the Eco-

Tech Park

industrial ecology

Industrial symbiosis

environmental technology

adaptive reuse