Respondents’ Locations
Alabama 1% Arizona 2%California 9% Colorado 7%DC 17% Florida 10%Georgia 2% Indiana 1%Louisiana 2% Maine 1%Montana 2% Nebraska 5%New Mexico 2% New York 7%North Carolina 2% Ohio 2%Pennsylvania 2% South Carolina 4%Texas 7% Vermont 2%Virginia 1% Washington 12%
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What is your current main resource for sustainable guidelines?
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Which do you feel costs the client more overall, sustainable or traditional design?
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Have you researched future returns to your clients from asustainably designed building?
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Which areas of sustainable design have you researched?
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How often do you try to educate your clients regarding sustainable design?
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What percentage of your clients initiate sustainable design?
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Do you design sustainable buildings only for clients who initiate it, or for all client (including apathetic ones)?
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What percentage of your sustainable designs are actually accepted and implemented?
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Do you charge your clients a fee for developing an ecologically sound design?
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What type of fee structure do you use?
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Do you feel that you have time to research different sustainable solutions?
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What do you feel is the greatest incentive for the client in a sustainable design?
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What do you feel is your greatest incentive for utilizing sustainable design?
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Do you feel environmental sustainability and design excellence are incompatible?
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Reasons why architects don’t always apply sustainable guidelines for siting issues.
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Reasons why architects don’t always apply sustainable guidelines for Construction Waste Management.
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Reasons why architects don’t always apply sustainable guidelines for Building Material Specifications
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Reasons why architects don’t always apply sustainable guidelines for energy efficiency.
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Reasons why architects don’t always apply sustainable guidelines for renewable energy.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for rehabilitation.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for Indoor Air Quality.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for Landscaping.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for exterior design.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for Occupant Recycling.
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Reasons why architects don’t apply sustainable guidelines for Water Conservation.