Integrative Design
You can find our credentials in specific aspects of the building process throughout our web site, in our published bodies of work, and even on YouTube. But it’s our deep philosophical commitment to the process of integrative design that sets 7group apart. In fact, we note in our new book, The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building, that we have found that most of the people who contend they practice integrative design have only accomplished a higher degree of coordination between disciplines; they haven’t yet achieved the fundamental change of process that is necessary to deliver on a new mindset.
Integrative design is the how of health of place. It starts with acknowledging that most everything in a building process affects everything else. It requires undoing a century-and-a-half evolution of siloed specialization of building systems and subsystems. You replace it with a process that involves analyzing, quantifying and evaluating the synergistic interactions between building systems, a new kind of whole systems thinking (and doing) around building design, construction and operations. It’s the most effective way we know to deliver a green, high-performing building within a budget.
