With demanding climates, challenging budgets, disparate contexts, and diverse clients, three Texas firms each created distinctly sustainable projects that garnered AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects awards in 2006. Firm principals will share insights into how to create an effective project process, build a knowledgeable team, and design compelling buildings where science and creativity work together to create beauty and performance.

   Learning objectives:

• Summarize the steps required to set sustainable goals for projects and to create a high performance team capable of exceeding them
• Discuss intuitive rules of thumb and more complex strategies for improving building performance
• Analyze the lessons learned on completed projects and identify how that knowledge will improve your practice and design approaches