NPI offers a series of professional training seminars for the management, development, and preservation of historic, cultural, and environmental resources related to historic preservation and cultural resource management.
- Identification and Evaluation
- Laws and Regulations
- Cultural and Natural Resource Management
- Native American Cultural Resources
- Property Management and Design Issues
- Curation, Conservation, and Stewardship
- On-site and Customized Training
- Who Should Attend
- Seminar Format and Certificates
- Faculty
- AIA/CES
*These seminars are not currently scheduled, but are available as on-site or customized seminars or may be scheduled in the future. Please contact us by telephone, mail, or email if you are interested in one of these seminars. Once there is a sufficient prospectives list, the seminar will be scheduled and potential attendees contacted so that they can formally register.
- Identification and Evaluation of Mid-20th-Century
Buildings (2 days) (AIA/CES)
- Identification and Management of Traditional
Cultural Places (2 days)
- CERCLA and NHPA Coordination for Superfund
Sites* (2 days)
- CRM Compliance for Non-Specialists* (3 days)
- NEPA Compliance and Cultural Resources (2 days)
- Section 4(f) Compliance for Transportation Projects
(2 days)
- Section 106: An Introduction (3 days)
- Section 106: A Review for Experienced Practitioners
(2 days)
- Section 106: Agreement Documents
(3 days)
Cultural and Natural Resource Management
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Tools for Cultural and Natural Resource Projects (3 days)
- Cultural and Natural Resources: An Integrated Management Strategy* (3 days)
- Decisionmaking for Cultural and Natural
Resources in the Legal Environment (2 days)
- GIS: Practical Applications for Cultural Resource
Projects (2 days)
- Historic Landscapes: Planning, Management, and
Cultural Landscape Reports (2 days) (AIA/CES)
Native American Cultural Resources
- Consultation and Protection of Native American
Sacred Lands (2 days)
- NAGPRA and ARPA: Applications and Requirements (2 days)
- Native American Cultural Property Law (2 days)
Property Management and Design Issues
- Green Strategies for Historic Buildings (1 day) (AIA/CES)
- Historic Property Management (3 days)
(AIA/CES)
- Historic Structures Reports: A Management Tool for Historic Properties (1 day) (AIA/CES)
- Preservation Maintenance: Understanding and Preserving Historic Buildings (2 days) (AIA/CES)
- Secretary of the Interior’s Standards:
Review Guidelines for Boards and Commisions* (2 days) (AIA/CES)
- Secretary of the Interior’s Standards: Treatment
Considerations (2 days) (AIA/CES)
Curation, Conservation, and Stewardship
- Archaeological Curation, Conservation, and
Collections Management (4 days)
- Cemetery Landscapes: A Practical Guide to Care and Maintenance (1 day)
- Cemetery Preservation (2 days)
- Conservation Strategies for Archaeologists (3 days)
- Digital and Traditional Photography of Cultural Resources (2 days) (AIA/CES)
On-site and Customized Training
NPI offers on-site and customized training to meet specific organizational needs. The seminars listed on the web site or in the brochure may be tailored to create single- or multiple-day workshops at a location and time convenient to the sponsor. NPI also can develop other preservation-related training seminars.
NPI seminars focus on topics of current concern to professionals involved in the management and stewardship of cultural and historic resources, charged with compliance and contracting, and/or involved in the cultural resource and environmental management process.
- Accessibility coordinators
- Architects and landscape architects
- Community and Native American tribal leaders
- Contractors, public administrators, attorneys, and environmental specialists
- Economic and tourism industry professionals
- Government and public utility company officials
- Historians, architectural historians, photographers, and writers
- Historic site administrators, museum curators, and collection managers
- Housing specialists and developers
- Landmark and zoning commission members
- Managers of historic structures, landscapes, and other properties
- Planning, design, engineering, and public works professionals
- Preservation, land use, and facility planners
The seminar format encourages discussion and allows time to focus on
issues of particular interest to the group. Participants return to the
workplace with new skills and knowledge immediately applicable to the
current concerns of their organizations or clients. NPI seminar participants
receive a certificate of training completion at the end of the semester
if one is requested on the registration form. Seminars vary in length.
They generally are held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NPI’s seminars are taught by nationally recognized educators, consultants,
and practitioners in historic preservation, archaeology, architecture
and landscape architecture, conservation, historical research, restoration,
and cultural resource management. NPI reserves the right to substitute
an instructor if necessary and will notify registered participants whenever
possible. To learn more about an instructor, click on their name.
- Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR
- Allyson Brooks, Ph.D.
- Jean Carroon, AIA, LEED
- Ernest A. Conrad, P.E., LEED, AP
- John J. Cullinane, AIA
- Tanya Denckla Cobb
- Ethel R. Eaton, Ph.D.
- Dave Gamble
- Debi Hacker
- Sherry Hutt, J.D., Ph.D.
- Robert Jackson
- William Lebovich
- Barbara H. Magid
- James C. Massey
- Shirley Maxwell
- Deidre McCarthy
- C. Timothy McKeown, Ph.D.
- Alfonso A. Narvaez
- Claudia Nissley
- Michael Trinkley, Ph.D.
- Joe Trnka, AICP, CEP
- Emily Williams
- Lisa Young
NPI is registered with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CES criteria. AIA members will receive 6 learning units each day for designated seminars; AIA members can complete a self-report form for other NPI seminars.