1.b Integrated Design – Above Green

Use a collaborative, integrated process and team to plan, program, design, construct, commission, and transition to operation each new building project or modernization. Ensure that the process and team:

Requirements:

Integrate the use of OMB’s Circular A-11, Part 7, Capital Programming Guide.
Establish performance goals for energy, water, materials, indoor environmental quality, and daylighting along with other comprehensive design goals and ensure incorporation of these goals throughout the design and life cycle of the building.
- Assessment Guidance: Submit meeting notes, project goals, and design charrette matrix and decisions Showing established goals for siting, energy, water, materials, indoor environmental quality, and other comprehensive design goals.
- Required Documentation:
  - Team charters and description of names and roles of integrated team members
  - Project meeting minutes and agendas detailing which project members were in attendance
  - Project goals and outcomes of meetings
Follow sustainable landscape design principles including protection and promotion of pollinator habitat.
Evaluate and provide appropriate electric vehicle charging infrastructure, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Consider design choices that improve environmental performance, protect historic properties, enhance indoor environmental quality, support health and wellness of building occupants, and address climate risks, including wildfire.
- Assessment Guidance: This includes evaluating site and building components for determination on passive &/or natural design strategies; taking into account site attributes, including climate and local and regional context, which impact design of the building; and orienting the building to maximize energy efficiency, passive solar, and daylighting potential. Furthermore, design promotes opportunities for occupants to voluntarily increase physical activity. E.g. making stairwells a desirable option for circulation, active workstations, including an exercise and/or fitness center, etc.
- Required Documentation:
  - Project goals and design choices
  - Conceptual and final design reports or Owner's Project Requirements
Consider all stages of the building’s life cycle.

References:

2018 IgCC Informative Appendix F, Integrated Design
42 U.S.C. § 8254: Establishment and Use of Life Cycle Cost Methods and Procedures
ASHRAE 189.1 Informative Appendix F, Integrated Design
Circular No. A-11 - Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget (Office of Management and Budget), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2018/06/a11.pdf
Planning and Conducting Integrated Design (ID) Charrettes, Joel Ann Todd and Gail Lindsey (Whole Building Design Guide), http://www.wbdg.org/resources/planning-and-conductingintegrated-design-id-charrettes