Sustainable design and the design/build approach seem to be a match made in an environmentally friendly heaven. Sustainable design is built on the premise that a building is a holistic system, not merely a collection of products and technologies, while design/build emphasizes the importance of working together in teams that incorporate all the knowledge that will go into the structure’s eventual construction. Bringing both philosophies together seems only natural.
This article originally ran in the September 2009 issue of Electrical Contractor magazine.
