Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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advocating for the Design-Built Institute of America
I'm sitting here representing. But what a natural
fit for, again, it's a collaborative relationship.
It's taking the interdisciplinary functions, cross-
pollinating, integrating the process with not only
the designers, and contractors, subs, and suppliers,
manufacturers and unleashing them will surprise you.
I recently had an opportunity to work with
the National Renewable Energy Labs in Denver
building a new headquarters, going for platinum and
very, very focused on the performance requirements
and wondering what type of interest they would get.
And it currently, in the design criteria stage,
getting a tremendous interest for design builders
teaming up wanting to try to obtain that platinum
status.
And I will say again, from, and I'm not
sure I understood Bill's comment earlier about some
of the issues you had with US Green Building
Council, but again, taking advantage. And what I
see some agencies don't do is in that two-phase
negotiation Design-Build project delivery gives you,
particularly in this area, or BIM, Building
Information Modeling, or lean construction, it's the
only, that I know of, project delivery that allows
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