Residential real estate designed to enhance health, wellbeing, and happiness and transform the industry. When NAVA Realty developed Lakehouse in the Sloan Lake neighborhood of Denver its vision was to create “a new era of living well,” which was implemented through...
The Integrative Design Process (IDP) has the potential to radically change the way that decisions are made in building design and construction, and to improve project success and efficacy. However, integrative design projects often fail to realize success because...
Design and manage a citywide building energy benchmarking and energy conservation challenge The City of Fort Collins needed support to design and implement its first-ever multifamily building energy challenge. The challenge sought to help property managers benchmark...
Catalyzing organizational change by embedding human-centered design thinking into staff practice across seven U.S. offices BranchPattern, a building engineering consultancy and design firm, wanted to grow the ability for facilitating human-centered design processes...
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of implementing Arc and BREEAM In-Use as turnkey tools to help Colorado State University (CSU) benchmark, analyze, and achieve its operational and sustainability goals. Arc and BREEAM In-Use are existing building...
