Integrated Sustainable Design

By Guest Blogger Jon Dickinson

Sustainability is ingrained into LPA's firm culture and our common goals have led to many successful projects. To maintain this integrated, very collaborative culture and the esteem we’ve worked hard to achieve, it takes a constant challenge of the status quo.

Design Build. Lease-Leaseback. Integrated Project Delivery (or IPD). These are terms increasingly seen in the sustainability-minded, efficiency-oriented world of design, engineering, and construction. The basis of these methodologies is essentially the same: to include parties that traditionally enter later during the design process—such as the engineers and contractors—earlier, so that they can offer their expertise from the start, resulting in an integrated design that allows for a smoother construction process and a better performing building.

Steve Kendrick, AIA, LEED AP

LPA's 10 Principles of Absolute Design

In the spirit of these posts I'm posting my own top 5 must reads as they relate to architecture and life here at LPA:

A perfect example of optimized solar orientation can be found in Two Journey Medica Plaza -- one of our current projects in Aliso Viejo.