Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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design-build all the way. But for a renovation<br />
project, for the smaller renovation projects, is<br />
design-build the best method? You need the VE team<br />
to be giving you feedback early in the process to<br />
tell you we advise you to go this way to avoid<br />
unknowns. To avoid change orders, to avoid<br />
bickering in the project. Bickering is not<br />
productive. So look at some <strong>of</strong> the, look for the VE<br />
team to help advise you on those issues.<br />
The VE team, the next slide, can help you<br />
in project programming and prioritization. It helps<br />
establish quality measures and priorities and ways<br />
to measure them. The program for a project is not<br />
just the square foot. It's a living document. It<br />
tells you the rules on how to build your building.<br />
It's setting forth the priorities for a project.<br />
It's not simply square footage. Next slide.<br />
Now, we talked about lead and I would say<br />
that the VE team can be a very strong partner to<br />
look for successfully incorporating lead principles<br />
into a project. First <strong>of</strong> all, we need to fully<br />
adopt that we are doing sustainable buildings. It's<br />
not just a little lead here and a little lead there.<br />
It's actually we're taking on environmental<br />
stewardship and energy stewardship and doing a full<br />
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