• Create, manipulate, and interpret GIS data
• Assist with feasibility studies, site layout, and preliminary utility design while addressing interdisciplinary concerns
• Perform preliminary calculations needed to assess feasibility
• Review codes for barriers to sustainable design that will need to be addressed with variances, adjustments and narratives

Design review is focused on finding and detailing sustainability opportunities during the design phase. Optionally, we may want to meet USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED, not LEEDs - that's a city in England!), Living Building Challenge, and Salmon Safe Certification requirements.

• Early Design Review
  1. Meet with project manager and/or project owner/developer to get overview of project goals
  2. Review drawings and other project documents for opportunities
  3. Generate summary report of sustainable site ideas
     Download an example report sample for Early Design Review
• Mid-design Course Correction
  1. Phone conversation with project manager to assess changes to project
  2. Review updated drawings and project documents
  3. Edit report
• Final Design Quality Control and Completeness Check
  • Phone conversation with project manager to assess changes to project
  • Review updated drawings and project documents
  • Edit report if desired to be included in project documents
  • Suggest specific details, notes, and specifications or other work products that may still be need

Get the most out of your design review by using it as an in-house case study. I can put a PowerPoint presentation together that goes into detail about why we used the approaches we did, what the science and regulations are behind each approach, and when a site might be good for or constrain a particular approach.

• Meet with the project engineer, construction manager, and all other relevant construction team members in a pre-construction meeting to clarify plans and troubleshoot problems with the contractor before they happen. (These meetings have been very useful to me as a tool in the past because the contractor leaves the meeting understanding the project goals. In essence, this empowers them with better decision making skills on the site and he/she will know when to ask questions during construction.)
• Assist with approving submittals
• Visit field with project manager to troubleshoot issues or observe installation of green facilities

• Develop custom details and specifications
• Perform and/or teach stormwater modeling for Low Impact Development (Wikipedia: LID) from small sites up to a watershed or regional scale
• Sketches to get ideas across

I can provide well written narratives and manuals that will:

• Get a variances or adjustments
• Provide information on operations & maintenance
• Guide homeowners in stewardship of their new green site
• Educate the public

• Help clients use the science and thinking to make decisions about where to put their money or how to execute a particular best management practice
  
  Download the successful decision making document I created for the Redding School of the Arts on water quality management of parking lots.

Are you wondering if you can use porous pavements on clay? Don't know how to ecologically plan a site? How about completing the paperwork for LEED certification? I'm chock full of creative ideas and practical knowledge to help you with your design challenges. This process can be quick and painless and can sometimes be done over the phone. I charge in 15 minute increments – literally, the answer that you’ve searched on the internet for hours might be right in my head, and I’ll give it to you for as little as $20! Wacky fun!