Pilot-Credits IPpc108: Integrative Process for Health Promotion 1 point

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Requirements

Beginning in pre-design and continuing throughout the design phases, identify and use opportunities to achieve synergies that promote health across disciplines and building systems. Team with a public health partner to use the analyses described below to inform the owner’s project requirements (OPR), basis of design (BOD), design documents, and construction documents. Document how this analysis informed design and building form decisions, including modifications that were made in response to the findings and recommended strategies that were identified.

PUBLIC HEALTH PARTNER

Identify and team with a public health partner appropriate for the project. A public health partner can be an individual professional or public health department or organization whose work, experience, and training are focused specifically on public health.

DISCOVERY

Perform a preliminary analysis before the completion of schematic design that explores how to promote health (physical, mental and social/economic well-being) and accomplish related sustainability goals by questioning default assumptions. Identify the community that will be impacted by the project and conduct research to characterize critical health issues and existing environmental health hazards affecting the community (including social, environmental, and economic factors that impact health). During this analysis, consider the disparate impact that project design and construction could have on vulnerable community members. Engage public health partners and community stakeholders to discover how this project could address community health needs and reduce any existing health inequities.

IMPLEMENTATION

In collaboration with community stakeholders and a public health professional, identify, select and implement achievable strategies to address existing health needs and minimize project features that could present risks to health. Consider strategies at multiple scales across green building practice including site selection, landscape design, and interior design. Keep in mind that such strategies appropriate for addressing health needs and reducing risk are found in many existing LEED credits and credits within other rating systems. The process represented by this credit is a means of strategically selecting strategies to maximize impact. To the extent possible, consider linkages between the project’s design and operations particularly as it relates to potential health and wellness programming. Prioritize strategies based on research gathered during the discovery phase and document how the discovery phase informed the project’s OPR and BOD and the eventual design of the project. Finally, collaborate with a public health partner to develop a monitoring plan with performance metrics to evaluate the project’s impact on health throughout the project life cycle (design, construction and operations). The project team is not responsible for implementation of monitoring, nor is execution of the monitoring required. The purpose of the monitoring plan is to demonstrate that design and optional programming strategies were developed to achieve specific health needs or goals, and that these strategies have an intentional desired outcome that could be measured. See the guide tab for step by step instructions. See all forum discussions about this credit »