# Joe Brevard

> Joe Brevard is the Boston-based co-founder and CEO of the Collaborative, a multidisciplinary planning, design, engineering, transportation, and communications firm begun in 1990. An engineer by undergraduate training and an MIT-trained city planner, he has managed work ranging from Hartford's regional water-supply strategy to municipal planning, transit outreach, public participation, and the Collaborative's recent equity plan for Savannah's nearly 30-mile Tide to Town trail.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at the Collaborative
- **Organizations:** the Collaborative, Camp, Dresser and McKee, Collaborative Institute
- **Education:** BS in Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Master in City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graduate study in geography, political economy and development, Clark University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and has led the Collaborative since its 1990 launch as a four-person firm., Managed a comprehensive regional water-supply planning effort for the Hartford Metropolitan District Commission., Built a multidisciplinary practice spanning planning, design, engineering, transportation and communications.

## Career timeline

- **Before 1990** — Worked as a senior management consultant at Camp, Dresser and McKee and managed the Hartford metropolitan area's long-range water-supply planning effort.
- **1990** — Co-founded the Collaborative with Ed Shoucair as a four-person planning startup.
- **2001-2002** — Served as investigator for a Federal Transit Administration New Starts Roundtable technical-assistance project.
- **2010** — Participated for Planners Collaborative in the Massachusetts Statewide Airport System Plan project-management process.
- **2020** — Helped launch the Collaborative Summer Institute, whose first cohort included 12 undergraduate and graduate interns working on applied civic challenges.
- **2026** — The Collaborative published its Tide to Town equity plan for Savannah's nearly 30-mile, 62-neighborhood trail network.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and has led the Collaborative since its 1990 launch as a four-person firm.
- Managed a comprehensive regional water-supply planning effort for the Hartford Metropolitan District Commission.
- Built a multidisciplinary practice spanning planning, design, engineering, transportation and communications.
- Helped launch the Collaborative Summer Institute in 2020.
- Contributed to planning and public-participation work for municipal, state and federal clients across the United States.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — The Collaborative published its Tide to Town Plan for Savannah, pairing a nearly 30-mile trail with an equity strategy focused on housing stability, local jobs and neighborhood wealth.
- **2025-10** — Brevard and colleagues joined a planning team working with McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on a development plan attentive to the city's historic assets.
- **2026-04** — Brevard spoke about his mother Sarah Louise Van Allen's trip to the 1926 national spelling bee for a centennial newspaper retrospective.

## Links

- Website: https://www.thecollaborative.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-brevard-62098415
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thecollabstudio
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/thecollaborativeca

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Last updated: 2026-09-22