INTEGRATION:

“The contemporary building owner, architect, engineer, contractor, banker, community, and many others, have has produced the most flagrantly uneconomic and uncomfortable buildings, which can be inhabited only with the aid of the most expensive devices of heating and refrigeration." Louis Mumford

To avoid this end result as much as possible, GPD utilizes an Integrated design approach.

Integrated design enables a team to maximize a building's "green-ness." Green building systems are interdependent, meaning they're mutually dependent; YET dependant on each other. Integration maximizes the overlapping benefits of each material and system.

It is vital that all "stakeholders" participate in the decisions that affect their area of expertise. In turn improving quality control, makes team members responsible for the project's success.

Integration ensures all those who need input on particular decisions do so, creating a collaborative relationship rather than adversarial.

Performance-based, design-build, integrated-design projects cost no more, if not less, than those built under the traditional model. This can happen on a Residential level.

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