Integrative Process
In the building sector, the integrative process is ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration that begins during early design.
Depending on the project, the team could include the owner, future occupants, neighborhood residents, facilities personnel, mechanical and structural engineers, the contractor, trades, or even key product suppliers. These people all work together to find efficiencies, potential cost savings, and unique solutions and opportunities that would not otherwise be discovered.
Integrative Process
Deep Dives
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Energy Modeling For Sustainability
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Evolving software for modeling energy dynamics makes it easier for architects and engineers to design green buildings.
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Mouth, Meet Money: Case Studies of Outcome-Based Design
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Performance-based incentives are a growing (and positive) trend. They’re not as risky as they sound, but there are some steps you should be taking to prepare.
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Pest Prevention: Steps Designers Can Take
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Integrated pest management (IPM) design strategies can reduce structural damage and unsanitary conditions, and improve our community’s health.
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Embracing the Economy as a Design Challenge
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How architects, community developers, and others are experimenting with new models to support progressive design.
Quick Takes
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Product Guidance
Unbiased information from our product experts helps you separate green from greenwash.
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In The News
We break news down to the essentials and provide expert analysis.
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Worker Safety on LEED Projects Questioned
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A 2009 study found no difference in worker safety on LEED projects, but a new study asks what factors might make LEED construction sites less safe, drawing a link from design to worker safety.
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2017 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards Emphasize Buildings That Teach
News Analysis
This year’s winning projects act as revolutionary models for a variety of challenging building types.
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What’s the Secret to High Performance?
News Analysis
A new report identifies common habits of the firms that produce the best-designed and most sustainable projects.
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A Framework for All: How AIA Is Democratizing Excellence
News Analysis
The AIA Framework for Design Excellence helps designers start vital conversations. Recent revisions have surfaced four core outcomes and sharpened focus on “how” to complement “why.”
Perspective
Thought-provoking opinions from the most trusted minds in sustainability.
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Learning Resources
Syllabus supplements and CEU content, with automatic reporting for AIA and GBCI.
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