Net Zero Heroes (Second Place)

Overview:

The Net Zero Heroes is a collaborative, innovative, and geographically diverse team from six of the seven offices of BSA LifeStructures. The team consists of architects, designers, and engineers from various roles within the firm and has a total of 51 years of experience. When we decided to pursue the ASHRAE LowDown Showdown competition, we wanted to create an exceptional interdisciplinary design process, so a special effort was made to include representatives from as many offices, disciplines, and levels of experience as possible.

Our particular challenge was our entire team could never be all in the same place at the same time, so we needed a robust backbone of collaboration tools to create a cohesive whole. Throughout the design process we held weekly “face-to-face” coordination meetings using WebEx, an online collaborative video conferencing platform, which we used to keep ourselves on track and check in on the status of everyone’s work. In-between these meetings, we used Trello to make requests, track tasks, and share information. In our first meeting, we compiled all our Strengths Finder results to help us understand how to best communicate and tackle our tasks.

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