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issues, concerns, and ideas. Local residents frequently bring a deep understanding of the place—the local context, culture, and history, as well as the strengths and needs of the community. In most communities, it is essential to win the trust of local residents and organizations, which may involve one-on-one and small-group meetings. It is easy for a project team to underestimate the value of this step and instead call an evening meeting with the community to present the proposed project. Effective stakeholder meetings involve both careful listening and openness to determine the most feasible and effective solutions for the community. As with any break with tradition, barriers and obstacles can arise when a team uses an iterative process. In the article “Integrated Design Meets the Real World,” authors Wendt and Malin highlight the benefits of the integrative design process but also discuss some of the obstacles:
- Meetings can be expensive to run and hard to schedule
- Communication between meetings often breaks down
- People may be resistant to green goals
- Participants can balk at the iterative, integrative process
- Traditionalists may resist the up-front loading of modeling, testing of assumptions, and analysis
- People may be reluctant to embrace new technologies* Importantly, experts interviewed for the article noted that they got better at the process over time, especially when they were able to work with the same project team members on more than one project. One defining element of the green building process is the project team, a broad, inclusive, collaborative group that works together to design and complete the project. This team differs from the group of stakeholders who participate in the charrettes. The members of this group are highly invested and involved across all stages of the project. They are deeply involved in the problem-solving and decision-making processes at every step. Individual projects require different blends of expertise. For example, the appropriate team for developinga sustainable operations program would likely involve the facility owner, facility management team, vendors, occupants’ representatives, and a sustainability expert. Additionally, the expertise of individual project team members will be more critical at different points in the project. For example, an ecologist might be most relevant during the initial stages of the project, to help the team understand and work with the site, but could bring forward valuable ideas and find synergies throughout the process. The team process favors a design-build or integrative project delivery (IPD) contracting process rather than traditional design-bid-build, in which the contractors are brought in after many elements of the project have been determined. Design-build and IPD enable team members to participate from the early project stages, including goal setting and initial brainstorming. »
18 A. Wendt and N. Malin integrated Design Meets the Real World, Environmental Building News 19(5) (2010), 8 un 37