[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1637-1638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00520]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5924-N-01]
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``Innovation in
Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition''
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the third year of the Innovation in
Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. The
competition requires teams of graduate students from multiple
disciplines to submit plans in response to a real life affordable
housing design issue. The goals of this competition are: To encourage
research and innovation in quality affordable housing design that
strengthens the social and physical fabric of low and moderate-income
communities and neighborhoods, to raise practitioner and future
practitioner capacity to produce more livable and sustainable housing
for low and moderate-income people through disseminating best
practices, and to foster cross-cutting team-work within the design and
community development process.
DATES: February 8, 2016. The real life affordable housing design issue
was released on December 11, 2015. The deadline for phase one of the
competition will be February 8, 2016. Finalists will be announced on
February 19, 2016, and will have until April 19, 2016, to prepare their
presentations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachelle Levitt, Research Utilization
Division, Office of Policy Development and Research, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 8110,
Washington, DC 20410, telephone 202-402-5867. Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
Entrants in the Innovation in Affordable Housing Design are
requested to present their plans for a site owned by a public housing
authority (PHA). This presentation will include architectural designs,
neighborhood planning, and financial plans.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition
The competition is open to any contestant, defined as a team of
U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States who are
currently enrolled in a graduate level program at a university in the
United States. The team members must represent at least three related
academic disciplines and will be supported by a faculty advisor.
Individuals may not participate in more than one team.
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge (Challenge), an
individual or entity--
(1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under
the rules promulgated by HUD;
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section;
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group,
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States in order
to receive prize money;
(4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment;
(5) Shall not be a HUD employee working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty hours;
(6) May not be a judge of the competition, or any other party
involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the
Challenge or their immediate family (spouse, parents or step-parents,
siblings and step-siblings, and children and step-children);
(7) Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop challenge
applications under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2011
(COMPETES Act) unless consistent with the purpose of their grant award;
(8) Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract
to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
By participating in this Challenge, contestants agree to assume any
and all risks and waive claims against the Federal Government and its
related
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entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, for any injury,
death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits, whether
direct, indirect, or consequential, arising from participation in this
prize contest, whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises
through negligence or otherwise. By participating in this Challenge,
contestants agree to indemnify the Federal Government against third
party claims for damages arising from or related to Challenge
activities.
Registration Process for Participants
All Contestants could register on the competition Web site, http://www.huduser.ogov/challenge . Interested parties can also read all
official rules and sign up to receive more information and competition
updates on this site.
Submission Period Begins: 12:01 a.m., EDT, December 11, 2015.
Submission Period Ends: 11:59 p.m., EDT, February 8, 2016.
Amount of the Prize
The winning team of the competition will be awarded $20,000. The
runner-up team will be awarded $10,000. Prizes awarded under this
competition may be subject to Federal income taxes. HUD will comply
with the Internal Revenue Service withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected
Submissions to the competition will be assessed by an informed jury
of approximately five practitioners and experts in the fields of
architecture, urban planning, affordable housing, and other relevant
areas, in compliance with the requirements of the COMPETES Act. Jury
members will be named after the commencement of the competition.
The jury will make decisions based on the following criteria:
Completeness of design, applicability, financial and economic
viability, planning criterion, and innovation and creativity.
Additional Information
The finalists will be invited to a site visit of the PHA in early
March, with expenses paid for two team members. All rules and
competition information and updates can be found at www.huduser.gov/challenge.
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Upon submission, each team
warrants that the team members are the sole owners of the submission,
and that the submission is wholly original to the team and does not
infringe on any copyright or other rights of any third party of which
the team is aware.
Submission Rights: By participating in this Challenge, each Team
grants to HUD an irrevocable, paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive
license to post, link to, share, and display publicly on the Web. The
Public Housing Authority may use ideas from submissions in their future
efforts to address the affordable housing design issue.
Compliance With Rules and Contacting Contest Winners
Finalists and the Contest Winners must comply with all terms and
conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon
fulfilling all requirements herein. The initial finalists will be
notified by email after the date of the judging.
Privacy
Personal information provided to HUD by Contestants registering or
filling out the submission form through huduser.gov is protected by the
Privacy Act, and is used to respond to Contestants in matters regarding
their submission, announcements of entrants, finalists, and winners of
the Contest. Winners are permitted to cite that they won this contest.
General Conditions
HUD reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the
Competition, or any part of it, for any reason, at HUD's sole
discretion.
Participation in this competition constitutes a contestant's and
team's full and unconditional agreement to abide by the competition's
official rules found at http://www.huduser.gov/challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719
Dated: January 5, 2016.
Katherine O'Regan,
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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