AIA California has announced its winners for the 2020 Design Awards and Integral Group was involved with 4 of the 15 projects recognized. The Design Awards seek to promote, recognize, publicize, and celebrate the value exceptional design has on society. This year’s winners include the following projects from Integral Group: Award for Merit & Leading Edge | Moscone Convention Center Integral Group’s team of LEED… Read more⇒

How can we enhance the patient experience through design? Design analytics tools are becoming increasingly powerful in shaping the form, orientation, and façade configuration of healthcare buildings to improve occupant amenity while maintaining focus on environmental performance. Join James Gungl and David Barker as they explore a patient-centered design optimizing the internal environment for a recent 80,000 m² hospital project. Gain leading-edge insights from recent… Read more⇒

The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) is hosting its annual conference, Design-Build Conference & Expo 2020, from Wednesday, October 28, to Friday, October 30, 2020.This will be a virtual event. While we navigate new territories in the building industry since the onset of COVID-19, we are finding ways to get our industries back on track and seeking new ways to stimulate our economies. Design-build will… Read more⇒

The Engineering News-Record ENR California Region has announced the recipients of its 2020 Best Project Awards and has named the Integral Group project Marin Country Day School, Upper School Improvements the recipient of the K-12 Education Award of Merit. ENR Best Projects Award is considered one of commercial construction’s most prestigious and coveted honors. These extraordinary projects are selected by juries of prominent and experienced… Read more⇒

Today’s designs pursue lofty performance goals for people, place, and planet. How can analytics support these goals while minimizing cost and complexity? Shaping the built environment involves a broad range of design considerations – from resource efficiency and green infrastructure to urban amenity and occupant satisfaction. Early intervention informed by targeted analytics can unlock high-performance design and protect stakeholders from costly retrofits, program delays, and… Read more⇒

Around the world, companies are making pledges to rapidly decarbonize. Battery storage will help make those promises reality. While the building industry continues to strive for Net Zero Energy goals, recent policies requiring all-electric building design are shifting the focus away from energy and onto carbon emissions. It is now more important than ever to consider how buildings will integrate with the carbon emissions goals… Read more⇒

Integral Group is proud to share that Noah Zallen has been awarded Consulting-Specifying Engineering’s 2020 40 Under 40 Award! This award is given annually to 40 building industry professionals ages 40 and younger who stand out through an assortment of personal and professional aspects of their lives. “The 2020 40 Under 40 winners are more creative, focused and passionate than most professionals at the early phases… Read more⇒

What does wellness in the workplace look like in a COVID-19 reality? The British Council for Offices sets the global benchmark for Class A Office Space. In 2018 it launched Wellness Matters - an outcomes-based roadmap to support health and wellbeing in the workplace. Its three lead authors - Ed Garrod, James Pack, and Will Poole-Wilson came together to revisit its guidance, providing unique insights into… Read more⇒

In celebration of Earth Day, Integral Group Chief Sustainability Officer Megan White broke down Integral’s mission driven approach towards environmental design and corporate operations. This presentation will include a review of Integral’s annual environmental reporting (CSER) and details into the World Green Building Council’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment. Additionally, Megan will highlight ways in which Earth is positively responding during the COVID-19 pandemic and… Read more⇒

The term Net Zero is gaining traction globally – but what does it mean to be truly Net Zero? Born from challenges of different local standards and approaches to this question, Elementa Consulting initiated the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) in 2017 to change London’s Energy Policy, a system that was failing to keep up with a rapidly decarbonizing electricity grid. Through determination and collaboration,… Read more⇒