Integrative design process

A collaborative design methodology emphasizing knowledge integration in the development of a holistic design. The basis for integrated design practices are in the “whole-building design” approach. By viewing a building system interdependently as opposed to its separate elements (site, structure, systems, and use), this approach facilitates sustainable design practices and can serve to mitigate additional costs that result from “greening” at a later time. The integrated design process requires multidisciplinary collaboration, including key stakeholders and design professionals, from conception to completion. Decision-making protocols and complementary design principles must be established early in the process in order to satisfy the goals of multiple stakeholders while achieving the overall project objectives.

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Estidama and LEED version 4 require, as mandatory credits, to demonstrate a comprehensive integrative design process. It's impossible to create successful sustainable design working in silos, with architects and MEP separated.

Green Works

This integrative design process is similar to the Chinese holistic view and the FengShui approach to the built environment [3].

Fengshui and sustainable design applications in interior design--case study: Baba Nyonya shophouses in Georgetown, Penang

The site will contain sustainable product information, corporate sustainable practices, current certifications and memberships, sustainability focused case studies, integrative design process and revit information, and image galleries.

Southwest Solutions Group Customers Can Now Find More Information on Sustainable Spacesaver Products

Quoting Salem Al Qassimi, associate planner, Estidama, the statement said that visitors to the website http://www.estidama.org/ >www.estidama.org can learn details of the newly launched Estidama Integrative Design Process (EIDP) which focuses on how sustainability can be achieved rather than simply explaining what   it meant.

UPC launches Online Version of Estidama

Salem Al Qassimi, Associate Planner, Estidama said that visitors to www.estidama.org can learn details of the newly launched Estidama Integrative Design Process (EIDP) which focuses on the 'how' of sustainability rather than simply the 'what'.

New Estidama online resource to foster sustainability knowledge and dialogue

Moving a step ahead of the Estidama (sustainability in Arabic) initiative launched in 2008 by the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC), the council has unveiled a new development benchmark called Estidama Integrative Design Process (EIDP).

Sustainability to be woven into new buildings

The text contains case studies of 50-plus of the best contemporary sustainable healthcare buildings from around the world, which are supplemented with essays by 35 experts on such topics as design and stewardship, the built environment and human health, ecology and medicine, nature and healing, the carbon-neutral hospital, the integrative design process and integrated operations, and creating the 21st-century hospital.

Sustainable healthcare architecture

Developed to achieve cutting edge sustainability levels through groundbreaking innovations embodied in the UAE capital city's enhanced Estidama initiative, Estidama Integrative Design Process (EIDP) is designed to ingrain core sustainability practices in the conceptual phases of construction, tourism, educational, civic, commercial, residential and infrastructure projects planned across the Emirate.

UPC launches pioneering urban development benchmark

Developed to achieve cutting edge sustainability levels through groundbreaking innovations embodied in the UAE capital cityeIUs enhanced Estidama initiative, Estidama Integrative Design Process (EIDP) is designed to ingrain core sustainability practices in the conceptual phases of construction, tourism, educational, civic, commercial, residential and infrastructure projects planned across the Emirate.

UPC launches pioneering urban development benchmark