Hi! We're putting together a pre-summit survey to collect input from everyone who's signed up for the Summit; we'll use that to prep the agenda for our get-together July 9-10.
Based on our last few phone calls, here's a list of topics on our radar. If there are others you'd like to see added to the survey, or if you have more thoughts about any of these, please respond here. It would be good to be input here by the end of April so we can use it to firm up the list of topics for the survey.
We can also unpack and start talking about any of these topic here (online), of course!
Thanks! Nadav
- Overhyped technologies—how to not waste time when the client gets excited about cool ideas that aren’t ready for prime time.
- Performance metrics: Carbon/energy/cost; IAQ/Daylight. Which are most useful/meaningful?
- Dealing with architecture clients who want to do their own energy modeling (usually have to unwind them).
- How to balance time between internal issues in the firm and external focus on design solutions and technologies?
- How to collaborate and share information between firms: case studies, best practice guides?
- Industry advocacy such as policy, codes, standards that we could advocate for as a group
- To innovate or replicate MEP solutions from project to project? pros and cons
- Cost pressure to re-use systems
- Pressure to innovate for innovation’s sake and for marketing
- How to make the case for clients: “How to make the best use of your engineer” guidebook?
- How to serve owners that don’t have skills/resources on their facilities teams to manage cutting edge systems?
- Water-energy nexus.
- Mass Timber--MEP coordination issues.
- Phone-a-friend—how can we best become resources for each other?
- Overhyped technologies—how to not waste time when the client gets excited about cool ideas that aren’t ready for prime time.
- To innovate or replicate MEP solutions from project to project? pros and cons
- How to serve owners that don’t have skills/resources on their facilities teams to manage cutting edge systems?
- Water-energy nexus.
- Mass Timber--MEP coordination issues.
POLICY / INDUSTRY TOPICS – SHARING BEST PRACTICES BETWEEN FIRMS- Performance metrics: Carbon/energy/cost; IAQ/Daylight. Which are most useful/meaningful?
- How to collaborate and share information between firms: case studies, best practice guides?
- Industry advocacy such as policy, codes, standards that we could advocate for as a group
- Phone-a-friend—how can we best become resources for each other?
PRACTICE TOPICS – MANAGING CLIENTS- Dealing with architecture clients who want to do their own energy modeling (usually have to unwind them).
- How to balance time between internal issues in the firm and external focus on design solutions and technologies?
- How to make the case for clients: “How to make the best use of your engineer” guidebook?
Erik