Citi Data Centre, Frankfurt, 2008
LEED certification can function as a devotional subsidy, giving green and future motivated companies incentive to offer development and design services without cost. Both participation in development and completion of a LEED certified project are great credentials for well funded sustainable and LEED projects in the future, and they increase value in multiple dimensions– fueling development of technology, research into sustainable practice, and increased value for the owner.
From this perspective, high-tech, solar, sustainable, and green building technologies amplify each other; a solar company doing work on a data center will have better credentials than a solar company doing work on a shopping mall. Similarly, networks of devotional subsidies and organizations from separate disciplines can amplify each other through hubs of common goals and overlapping needs. The client, depending on their business, also, may benefit from being part of these hubs.
With rapid development of solar and data technologies, it could be necessary to begin a contract with a proven hard bid contract, followed by a second open ended shared risk contract, followed by negotiation to install novel, co-developed and co-insured designs per successful completion and approval, or continued shared ownership of unfinished design for future projects.
This can also be applied to green building technologies. More importantly, on a design build contract, form can follow mission upon the client’s final approval of a novel, future oriented contract, or the preliminary hard bid contract. If we ask why we build medical hospitals, shopping malls, or residential complexes, despite overcoming shortage of structures, we also want different structures, in regard to form, function, technology, ethic, vision, and business relations. All of these should work cohesively upon completion. Architectural design can remain fluid with parts in draft until labor begins for each contract or subcontract.
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