Please see full project RFP for information. The City of Newport, RI is seeking qualified consultants or contractors to produce a report accompanied by physical window adaptation demonstrations that offer several approaches to preserve existing wooden window fabric while removing the friction points that create hazardous lead dust. Specifically, the consultant will research and produce several adaptation or mitigation solutions for wood windows that allow homeowners to modify and safely operate their lead-hazard windows following all RI state lead laws. Strategies will be put into a report and demonstrated on several windows for review by RI Lead Inspectors to ensure the interventions qualify as Lead-Safe. Successful strategies will be incorporated as an appendix into Newport’s existing “Policy Statement on Window and Door Replacements”.

Alongside window adaptation strategies, the consultant’s report will update existing incentives, tax credits, and local grants to support lead safe efforts. If/where there are gaps in such financial tools, the consultant will research and/or identify incentives used in other communities that could inform Newport and Rhode Island. The goal of the project is to produce and share accessible adaptation and abatement strategies for the safe, affordable, and continued use of lead hazard windows rather than their removal and disposal.