ABOUT
My sustainable real estate development and design consultancy business is Trapanese Engineering 2.0, Inc., named for the legacy of my father, an engineer, Pete Trapanese. He was a forward-thinking man who endeavored to offer the world sustainability solutions before their time.
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From the time I was a young child, he taught me about passive and active solar engineered designs, advanced wastewater treatment systems, solids waste management, heat exchange systems, air quality refinement systems. Additionally, I inherited his sensitivity to the plight of those who are financially disenfranchised, and as such, I provide housing for all economic strata within my mixed-use designs – an integral aspect of current sustainable development.
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Through my own professional experiences, I know architectural history, medical operating room design, materials handling engineering, commercial interior design, product design, industrial design, graphic design, branding, marketing, hospitality design and management, real estate investing, interior design and real estate staging, residential and commercial kitchen design, and residential and commercial landscape design. I employ all my experiences to prepare refined, well-considered sustainable real estate development designs.
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I have coalesced my education and experiences as listed in order to generate a variety of proposed mixed-use developments, most recently in the Central Arizona region. My designs anticipate the local county's development directives for sustainability that have come to be relevant in recent years. My proposals have anticipated and addressed problems before they were brought to light to most engineers and environmental Scientists.
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I draw the distinction between environmental engineering and environmentalism, as I continue to apply scientific environmental engineering concepts to the environmental issues that have finally become relevant by virtue of the environmentalism generated within the current zeitgeist. It is the restrained and discriminating science and engineering for which I have possessed facility all my life and have honed over the last several decades, which I have employed to have already answered the environmentalists’ concerns.
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My designs are suitable to luxury resort living, while accommodating and including those of lower income strata in similar levels of luxury. Current directives in urban planning have presented models of 80/20 high/low-income residential accommodations which have proven to be very successful models for lower-income residents’ inclusion, thereby mitigating the archaic pockets of impoverished neighborhoods. Again, my layouts and mixed-use designs had already anticipated this sociological need.
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I am averse to one-off solutions to environmental issues. When considering Sustainable Real Estate Development, I assert that it is imperative to consider proper cohesive mass balance assessments across all related engineering disciplines, thereby reflecting solutions to all environmental issues vis-à-vis real estate development.
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As urban retrofitting is an impractical process, it is not within my purview to correct the ills of urban society. Rather, I prefer to offer complete modern design solutions to be built as new mixed-use developments that range in amenities to provide properly-quantified agricultural ventures through retail, office, storage, residential leasing. These include education and recreation for residents of all ages within the community and to those within the environs who occupy existing residential developments.
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