Sustainable Development
Integrated Design Process Facilitation
GRT works with owners and design teams to guide the integrated design process by helping them create a roadmap to clarify roles, responsibilities and deliverables. GRT works with them to create conditions conducive to success by reducing risk and encouraging collaboration and multi-disciplinary decision making. This focus on the process ensures that sustainable strategies are optimized as an integral part of the project with the goal of:
- Setting team and project objectives
- Integrating critical analysis
- Facilitating critical cost- and performance-based decision making
Sustainable Master Planning
GRT engages complex systems and helps integrate sustainable design strategies into comprehensive, long-term planning efforts through:
- Mapping and establishing baseline understanding of systems
- Identifying sustainability priorities
- Setting goals and expectations
- Developing a plan for implementing sustainable strategies
- Establishing design and operations guidelines for future development
Institutional Policy & Standards Development
GRT works with institutions to create and implement comprehensive sustainability initiatives within an institution, engaging both the technical aspects as well as the internal strategies. GRT helps to identify green building and sustainability standards through:
- Baseline assessment of current sustainability strategies
- Developing RFP and RFQ guidelines, including required experience recommendations for consultants, to meet project-specific goals Reviewing capital construction and operations practices to align newly established practice within campus practice
- Establishing design standards as they relate to energy, water, and resource conservation
Design Charrettes
GRT facilitates design charrettes and visioning sessions that play a critical role in aligning all interested parties in order to:
- Build consensus and cooperation among stakeholders
- Create a shared understanding of sustainability goals and priorities
- Identify sustainability objectives
- Create a clear process roadmap that defines roles and responsibilities
- Implement design strategies
Boot Camp for Organizations and Institutions
Boot Camp combines internal strategic planning and business strategies with comprehensive technical capacity. It helps owners and developers strategically assess their portfolio and determine what internal support and changes need to occur to achieve their green objectives. The goal of this program is to build internal capacity to launch and administer green initiatives independently.
GRT’s Boot Camp program includes:
- Baseline assessment
- Goal setting
- Analysis of portfolio
- Indicators and metrics
- Training and education
- Pilot project support
