The act of creating a building has always been difficult, but during the past century it has become exponentially more so. Building codes and regulations have been implemented to cover a wide range of ...

If you’re interested in working with Integrated Design, please complete the online project proposal form. Your request will be reviewed by someone on our staff within 24 hours. If your project fits ...

If the first 10 percent of design effort accounts for 90 percent of project success, how might that reality change the design effort? How does it change an owner’s expectations of how the team works ...

Working on the expansion of the new Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, I formed an especially strong bond over the project’s evolution with Arash Guity. Arash is an energy engineer for ...

Recent studies note the lack of growth in productivity and innovation in the construction fields. Quickly falling behind other sectors, this stagnation often leads to projects that are over-budget or ...

Building performance is a hallmark of architecture in the 21st century. With buildings and the construction industry being significant contributors to carbon emissions, designers must do everything to ...

As architects we often find ourselves trying to coax clients into pursuing more efficient, environmentally responsible buildings. With the Bullitt Foundation and its president, Denis Hayes, that ...

A system-engineering approach is essential for an efficient design in a complex system. Comprehension of conflicting requirements of participating subsystems and integrated designs are key elements ...

Please feel free to submit questions or input to the Integrated Design Task Force. Beginning in 2018, the Integrated Design Initiative Task Force, chaired by Dean JoAnn Browning, undertook a highly ...