What is the Architect's role in ensuring credit achievement? They designed something and specified a product for their great design to work without making an effort to maximize sustainable efforts. Instead, throwing it to construction manager to find another alternative to meet project goals.
Here's their response:
"The apportionment of regional materials is per Contractors' means and methods, as Regional Materials is a Construction Credit and the construction manager is the assigned Responsible Party
Please identify an alternative path to comply with project goals for this Credit ..."
Doesn't this look like this very renown Mr Architect is dodging the green efforts? Any comments ?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11475 thumbs up
November 3, 2013 - 7:30 pm
Lilian, an effective LEED project team has everyone pulling their weight toward sustainability and LEED project goals. Every team and every contract is different so I can't speak to your situation, and LEED itself does not dictate how teams should operate, but in practice, the type of behavior you describe, which can show up within any role on a team, is not responsible to the project goals, assuming those goals are well-established by the owner or other responsible authority.
Tiffany Moore
Built Environment ProfessionalBuilt Kansas City LLC
35 thumbs up
November 4, 2013 - 12:17 am
Lilian,
Your experience is more common that we'd like to admit at this point, but I'd like to support Tristan's last comment about the assumption that the project goals are established and support by the contracts. You may be seeing the result of a contractual relationship that divides the credits and doesn't incentivize an integrated approach.
In some cases, the contractual relationships haven't quite caught up with sustainability. It's not always clear that the contracts need to be modified as much as the specificiations if the team is expected to REALLY collaborate.
Don't shoot the messenger, as we say in the States, until you determine whether this position is intentional or not. If their response is based on the contract, see if you can illustrate the benefit of an alternate approach and broach the concept of collaboration to achieve a higher level of sustainability.
Good luck!