Big Green: Finding a green firm

[Dean Sherwin]

Pavlova
thats a great insight into BIM, particularly:  "senior architects to 
train junior architects not just
on how to draw a building, but how to build it."   (who trains them 
now, since schools manifestly mostly do not ?)  Obviously I should 
look past the hoopla at it (Didnt we have something similar a few 
years back with  different initials?  )

Dean Sherwin

At 09:44 AM 5/23/2008, Pavlova Ludmilla wrote:

>A couple of years ago I thought it might be interesting to apply for
>work back in the design sector.  I was most interested in finding a firm
>that had a commitment to sustainable design, so the question I asked
>first was:  do you keep a project team together from start to finish or
>do you pass planning work on to detailers!  At the time I could not find
>a large firm with institutional higher ed and research lab clients that
>committed to doing that, so I stayed put.  I cannot imagine how you can
>deliver a good, green building if you hold back the people who detail
>the construction from being part of the design process.  So I would ask
>if integrated design is practiced as a core principle.
>
>This past week I heard a person from SOM talk about BIM, and that the
>integration of the technology is requiring project teams to stay
>together and for senior architects to train junior architects not just
>on how to draw a building, but how to build it.  Halleluiah!  I'm
>finding that BIM is bringing about sustainability in design practice.
>So I guess I will have to dust off my resume and look again...
>
>Ludmilla
>
>Ludmilla Pavlova, R.A., LEED A.P.
>Senior Facilities Planner
>University of Massachusetts
>Facilities & Campus Planning
>360 Campus Center Way
>Amherst, MA 01003-9248
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