OUR FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESIGN Browning Day has established an actionable, firm-wide strategy for developing sustainable design best practices. Programming: Listen From the outset of discussions regarding programming, the project team should engage the client to establish quantitative and qualitative project requirements related to performance, environmental responsibility, and human health/wellness. This should take the form of a delivered document that becomes part of the Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR). Conceptual Design: Respond During conceptual design, the project team should respond to the sustainable design requirements and goals in specific ways. Through an integrative process, the project team shall engage the client and project stakeholders to initiate an integrative process charrette (also referred to as eco-charrette) to further refine the project’s sustainable design objectives and prompt an opportunity for multi-disciplinary engagement with the client and stakeholders. Whether in narrative form or through diagrams and figures, the design team shall track the best practices and specific strategies to be implemented on the project to meet the owner’s sustainable design requirements and goals – this includes performance targets, certifications, and other objectives. As part of the products-of-design for the conceptual design phase, this information should be clearly communicated to the client in a manner deemed more appropriate by the project team. This artifact will constitute the Basis of Design (BOD).
During the conceptual design phase, the project team should work with the client to establish to what degree commissioning will be executed as part of the project. If possible, the Commissioning Authority (CxA) should be engaged during the integrative process charrette. Schematic Design: Set Targets, Iterate, and Optimize As part of the schematic design process, the OPR shall be reviewed, revised as appropriate with the client, and leveraged to further develop the BOD, serving as a key driver for schematic design development. Sustainable design requirements and goals shall be reconciled with the various parameters of the project and revised appropriately. Through design performance modeling, project performance baselines shall be established and targets should be identified. A result of iterative analyses, the project design should be optimized to meet its quantitative and qualitative objectives. At this stage, the project should establish a track to pursue project certification in accordance with the OPR. The project should seek registration and an action plan to pursue certification should be developed and disseminated to the design team and client. The products-of-design for the schematic design phase should include project performance baselines and targets, the building certification action plan, and revised figures and diagrams to help communicate the project’s sustainable design requirements and goals. Design Development: Optimization The design development phase necessitates careful attention to ensure that the project’s sustainable design strategies are clearly communicated and integrated across the various disciplines involved in the design process.
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