A new wave is passing over the traditional educational facilities culture. It is perhaps new to people working in school facilities planning in the 1980s through the present, but not so new to those of us that predate the age of Disco. Bellenger in a commentary entitled “Forging the Path” found in the January 2011 issue of Today’s Facility Manager advocates a fresh look at collaboration.
According to this article, 98% of construction dollars in the United States are spent on existing buildings, where the demand to become energy efficient takes precedent. Hence, the standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings (USGBC) sets the stage for “going green” and using collaboration as a tool to achieve the high performance needed to decrease energy consumption.
The buzz term is “integrated design.” What this means for school leaders (the proxy owners of schools) is that they must come to the table with design professionals, contractors, engineers, facility managers, and developers. Finally, it is being recognized that the recent approach (I hesitate to use the term traditional approach) where the architect designs the building’s shape, orientation, and envelope, and then transmits the drawings to engineers and owners for their approval, is the silo approach that misses the rich opportunities for optimizing a building’s performance through collaboration from the beginning.
This presents a cultural shift in the building industry to transform the design process, but, according to Lynn G. Bellenger, it has to be done if the goal of net-zero-energy buildings can be realized. "As I have noted for many years, unsuccessful projects can be traced to failure of communication among architects, engineers, owners (educators and community stakeholders), and contractors"(After Bellenger).
In education, too frequently, the educational community has given design for efficiency, learning, and teaching over to architects, contractors, and engineers, assuming they know more about educational learning spaces than the educators themselves. Regardless of what happens in the design process, we should consider value engineering that includes the variable of how much the green building really influences teaching and learning. What are the pluses and minuses of "going green" for learning and teaching?
To ensure success for everyone, it is imperative to cultivate stronger communication skills and demand collaboration among the design team’s members as they work to enhance building performance. Why not also include building performance, student performance, and teaching efficacy as they relate the physical environment in the larger equation for success? Educators; however, can only work productively with the design team when they have been trained in educational facilities planning, design, and management that is based on sociophysical principles and characteristics. It is time too reinvent this component of the university curriculum for educators. Research in the area is beginning to flourish across many universities, worldwide. Educator participation and collaboration in planning and design of places and spaces for teaching and learning can again become robust.
Collaboration with equal influence on the design team is a new challenge and opportunity for education!
source: http://educationalfacilities.blogspot.com/2011/05/collaboration-in-planning-and-designing.html
Lazuardi Khofadel Nasher
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At the title we can see a word "Collaboration" that means work together. In our everyday life we often see a singer collaboration with other singer that means they're working together to sing a song.
In this article, writer want to say that as engineers, architec, and many aspect for build a school, they must work together. If they cannot work together then we can say that the construction of the school will be fail.
So engineers, architec, and others must work together. The most aspect that really important among each other is communication. If they cannot communicate each other, i think it's the same as fail.
I think this is what we need in Indonesia. We need to work together, maybe it seem simple, but it's important. Not only just for the engineers, architec, and etc. but the government, and the society must work together. We need to communicate to each other for a better future.
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