Eco-Charrette

Earlier this week, we had the eco-charrette for the project (the project, meaning the Autodesk project). I won't go into all of the details of reviewing the scorecard, but one topic that was interesting was the "project vision & goals" discussion, especially considering the IPD and BIM requirements of the project.

We basically went around the room and stated our personal goals, related to LEED, for the project. some of which were:

• Integrate Revit/IPD into the LEED process
• Track Materials in "the model" for MR credits
• Integrate the credits into the space in an organic way, so that end users don't walk around, pointing at things, saying "here is a credit" or "they must have done this for a credit"
• Use Revit & IES for calculations
• Integrate subcontractors in the process, beyond typical material tracking involvement
  
• Team interaction with IPD/BIM to meet requirements
• Innovation Credits to be for exceptional performance
  
• For end users to not realize the tight schedule when they are in the space
• To use IPD/BIM to make key decisions to meet the requirements
• For ideas to come from unexpected places, i.e. subcontractors
  

One of the interesting things about this discussion was who said each of these goals. The comment about ideas coming from subcontractors was a KlingStubbins team member; the comment about integrating the credits into the space was from Tocci.