The integrated design process has goals beyond coming up with some blueprints; it aims to bring all people with a stake in the building - financers, designers, occupants, developers, and sub contractors— together to plan, communicate and work, always considering how each component will interact with others resulting in a well functioning whole system.
See how a new decision making format called a charretteA collaborative multi-day planning process that harnesses the talents and energies of all project stakeholders held in the pre-design phase to develop goals and objectives, define roles, and select strategies for maximizing the project’s environmental performance. This is when a green building rating system checklist would be introduced to the team. was used in Atlanta to provide optimum conditions for exchanging information and ideas, building a wide buy-in on goals, choices and methods, and facilitating maximum green improvements because of the ease and cost savings that accrue when a plan is well integrated and the vision is clear and mutual.
