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18 Jun 2009, Comments Off

CFC Reviews CMHC Design Report: IDP — Means

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The Direction: Green Buildings Rating Systems

Beyond Bruntland and The Natural Step, a strategy for achieving sustainability goals is still needed. We can develop strategies by imagining future success and then take the actions needed to get there.
In the building industry, much preparatory strategy work has been done by the various green building rating systems and energy and environmental assessment methods.
These systems categorize and detail the impacts, actions and indicators required at a building level. LEED® Canada,10 Green Globes, Go Green and other rating systems give us the compass we need as we steer towards sustainability, and as they are refined over time, they will become more effective. And, as we work to refine our building practices, our buildings will also become more sustainable.

The Instrument: Integrated

Design Process as a Tool:
Even with rating systems and energy design tools spelling out the actions needed to proceed, it is still not always clear where to start and what tools to use. IDP is one of the best tools we have to help define the most appropriate design path. It provides the means to apply the design strategies and move society towards sustainability, one project at a time. Reviewed by Moishe Alexander.

5 Apr 2009, Comments Off

CFC Reviews CMHC Design Report: IDP — How is IDP Different? — Facilitated

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The primary role of the facilitator is not to produce the building design or parts of it, but to be accountable for the process of integrated design. This is of course the key to good facilitation of any kind. The facilitator allows the team participants the mental space to do what they do best— in this case green design. The degree of process intervention or direction will depend on the skill of the group, with an inexperienced group typically needing more direction than a practiced group.
Can you, as design architect, act as facilitator? First, a facilitator requires certain communication abilities and attitudes for exploring ideas with the team and draw out ideas. Therefore, although the lead design architect can act as the facilitator, it is generally not a good idea, as you are wearing two hats—and probably neither very comfortably. Why make the process more difficult than it needs to be?
The facilitator can be someone else in the lead architect’s office or it can be someone brought in from the outside, who specializes in green building facilitation. The key is the difference in primary roles. Reviewed by Guiseppe Strazzeri.

3 Apr 2009, Comments Off

CFC Reviews CMHC Design Report: IDP — Means

Author: admin

The Direction: Green Buildings Rating Systems

Beyond Bruntland and The Natural Step, a strategy for achieving sustainability goals is still needed. We can develop strategies by imagining future success and then take the actions needed to get there.
In the building industry, much preparatory strategy work has been done by the various green building rating systems and energy and environmental assessment methods.
These systems categorize and detail the impacts, actions and indicators required at a building level. LEED® Canada,10 Green Globes, Go Green and other rating systems give us the compass we need as we steer towards sustainability, and as they are refined over time, they will become more effective. And, as we work to refine our building practices, our buildings will also become more sustainable.

The Instrument: Integrated

Design Process as a Tool:
Even with rating systems and energy design tools spelling out the actions needed to proceed, it is still not always clear where to start and what tools to use. IDP is one of the best tools we have to help define the most appropriate design path. It provides the means to apply the design strategies and move society towards sustainability, one project at a time. Reviewed by Moishe Alexander.

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