OVERVIEW
When clients express vague goals like wanting their new building to be “green” or “healthy,” the team is often left with little idea of what they actually mean.
The stories and tools discussed here will help you:
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engage the client to tease out more specific goals
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provide educational materials to help clients make decisions
- suggest ways to measure success
IN-DEPTH
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Market-Rate Net-Zero-Carbon Design Emerges from Exercise
Case Study
As an exercise, HOK designed a market rate, net-zero-carbon office building in St. Louis. They calculated a payback period for added green features of 12 years.
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The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building
News Brief
This book from 7Group and Bill Reed focuses on reworking the design process to feed all of the interconnected needs of green buildings.
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Weighting Environmental Impact Categories
Primer
Life-cycle assessments (LCAs) score products or design options across a series of environmental impact categories. To compare two products with different impact profiles, it becomes necessary to weight those categories, a difficult process.
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Report Says Green Still Doesn't Drive Building Cost
News Analysis
"Cost of Green Revisited" finds that how green goals are achieved has more of an impact on building cost than the eventual level of performance.
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EPA Watershed Planning Tool Available
News Brief
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New Orleans Principles Published
News Analysis
BuildingGreen and the U.S. Green Building Council have published The New Orleans Principles, a collection of ten key principles to guide the planning and reconstruction of the city.
