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2008 DesignIntelligence Sustainable Design Survey
“Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard” is the theme of the 2008 sustainability issue from DesignIntellicence. Our survey tabulates the responses of leaders of the most successful design firms…
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- 08/11/08 Case Study: Ohio’s Shift to Sustainable Design Green building is embraced by a state with plentiful resources and conservative voters. Does this signal a tipping point?
- 08/11/08 Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard Formerly in the lexicon of crunchy-granola types alone, words like “sustainability” now hold cachet. That’s because Americans are going green. And that’s a word design firms can relate to.
- 08/11/08 The Making of Assumptions and Trusting to Luck: Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology. The current interest in improving building industry outcomes and enhancing collaboration among architectural, engineering, and construction players comes along at exactly the right time for green design to catch the wave.
- 08/11/08 Attention: Performance Marker Ahead Data is beginning to trickle out regarding actual performance as a result of the steps being taken to reduce energy use in buildings. The numbers indicate a need to raise the bar on performance standards.
- 08/11/08 Adaptive Structures: Building for Performance and Sustainability The technology to support adaptive building systems is both available and dependable. Adaptive façades are poised to capitalize on technology transfer from other disciplines, which can allow the building industry to mass produce sustainable building parts and bring down the cost of these systems to attractive levels.
- 08/11/08 The Sustainability Benefits of a Curious Approach We don’t yet understand the long-term causes and effects at the intersection of natural phenomena and human behavior. But we do know that creating long-term value in our resource-constrained world will require a unified approach to design.
- 05/14/08 Digital Design: Empowering Innovation and Environmental Response Three-dimensional modeling allows team members to push ideas to new levels while getting fast feedback that allows them to optimize all aspects of a building.
- 02/15/08 Sustainability in Strategy Designing or building green is no longer a distinguishing factor in the marketplace – it is expected and often demanded. But companies on the forefront of design and development have an obligation to inform, excite, and command more from clients than simply building green.
- 10/05/07 Legions of Foresight What story are you telling yourself, your colleagues, your clients about? Stories are the only way we can constructively create a context for to understand what might be ahead.
- 08/11/08 Case Study: Ohio’s Shift to Sustainable Design Green building is embraced by a state with plentiful resources and conservative voters. Does this signal a tipping point?
- 08/11/08 Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard Formerly in the lexicon of crunchy-granola types alone, words like “sustainability” now hold cachet. That’s because Americans are going green. And that’s a word design firms can relate to.
- 08/11/08 The Making of Assumptions and Trusting to Luck: Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology. The current interest in improving building industry outcomes and enhancing collaboration among architectural, engineering, and construction players comes along at exactly the right time for green design to catch the wave.
- 08/11/08 Attention: Performance Marker Ahead Data is beginning to trickle out regarding actual performance as a result of the steps being taken to reduce energy use in buildings. The numbers indicate a need to raise the bar on performance standards.
- 08/11/08 Adaptive Structures: Building for Performance and Sustainability The technology to support adaptive building systems is both available and dependable. Adaptive façades are poised to capitalize on technology transfer from other disciplines, which can allow the building industry to mass produce sustainable building parts and bring down the cost of these systems to attractive levels.
- 08/11/08 The Sustainability Benefits of a Curious Approach We don’t yet understand the long-term causes and effects at the intersection of natural phenomena and human behavior. But we do know that creating long-term value in our resource-constrained world will require a unified approach to design.
- 05/14/08 Digital Design: Empowering Innovation and Environmental Response Three-dimensional modeling allows team members to push ideas to new levels while getting fast feedback that allows them to optimize all aspects of a building.
- 02/15/08 Sustainability in Strategy Designing or building green is no longer a distinguishing factor in the marketplace – it is expected and often demanded. But companies on the forefront of design and development have an obligation to inform, excite, and command more from clients than simply building green.
- 10/05/07 Legions of Foresight What story are you telling yourself, your colleagues, your clients about? Stories are the only way we can constructively create a context for to understand what might be ahead.
- 06/07/07 A LEED on the Competition With the heightened interest in green and sustainable design, LEED professional certifications have become a popular tool for succesful AEC firms to distinguish their services from those of less progressive, insightful, or environmentally conscious firms. Green continues to be good.
