From feasibility to final construction: A comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of modern land development.
This 6.5-hour course examines site feasibility and conceptual planning for residential project types, including single-family and multi-family structures. The course focuses on the elements of residential site design: layout, grading, drainage, roadway planning, septic system planning, and stormwater management.
The course provides a comprehensive exploration of the principles, processes, and strategies involved in optimizing residential landscapes. The course delves into the critical elements of site analysis, spatial organization, and environmental integration required to transform a raw parcel of land into a cohesive, functional, and aesthetically pleasing living environment. Key topics include navigating complex zoning regulations, managing topographic constraints, and designing seamless vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems.
By examining the delicate balance between built structures and natural ecosystems, this overview highlights the effective integration of hardscaping, softscaping, and sustainable design practices. Ultimately, it offers a thorough examination of the art and science behind planning resilient, harmonious, and highly functional residential sites.
Online Courses for Engineers
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Owner and Registered Professional Engineer, Meisner Brem Corporation
Mr. Brem has been a registered professional engineer since 1987 in California and holds active registration in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. He has led his own small civil engineering and land surveying practice for over 32 years with two offices and up to 28 employees. His experience includes designing private land developments, stormwater management systems, sanitary sewer systems, wastewater treatment facilities, and roadways. His firm provides land surveying, construction management, engineering site design, and a host of other professional services primarily for private, for-profit companies. He has been involved in the design of over 4,000 residential single-family house lots—many of which were open space or cluster developments—thousands of condominium units, and over 3 million square feet of commercial, industrial, and institutional space. He has advised MassDEP on numerous task forces and committees, including serving as a present full member of the Stormwater Advisory Committee and the Title 5 Septic System Stakeholders Group. He is the past president, past treasurer, and member of the Board of Directors for HBRAM (the Massachusetts Homebuilders Association), past president of the Northeast Builders and Remodelers Association (NEBA), and a national delegate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) based in Washington, D.C. In 2024, Mr. Brem was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to serve on the prestigious Unlocking Housing Production Commission to advise the Governor and the Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities on strategies and recommendations to create over 230,000 new residential units in Massachusetts over the next 10 years. He is a proud 35+ year member of the Westford Rotary Club. He co-authored, with Harvard Law School Professors Joseph William Singer and Brandon Storm, a legal case study on real estate development entitled The Case of the Interfaith Neighbors (July 2016). In addition to engineering, Mr. Brem has been a land developer and homebuilder, recently constructing 25 residential homes in four separate projects in Massachusetts. He enjoys skiing, golfing, Cape Cod, and his family.
