We talked about products in Eastern region and Western region groups.
Guiding questions:
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Better Product Choices On Every Project: How To Get There?
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How do firms organize and communicate information on materials? Is it office wide or on select projects?
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What do designers and project managers need to know? How to make this simple enough that busy teams will address it on projects?
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Can we just get a shared, basic, pretty-darn-good starting point spec without getting into anti-trust?
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What is the best way to standardize our specs with the best products?
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Looking at larger building systems, envelope and structure, how are we moving toward better product choices?
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Anyone have experience with creating updated list of resources to share with staff?
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Can we address both occupant health and embodied carbon?
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How do we facilitate better product selection when the materials we select for projects in the next 10 years will have a potentially greater impact on carbon emissions than operational energy?
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How are teams focusing on optimized and red-list free products—beyond transparency?
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