No Excuses: Integrated Design for a Sustainable Future

LPA Design Studios rose to national prominence by demonstrating that designers can make a real impact on carbon reduction on a large scale.The firm’s integrated design approach breaks down the traditional model, eliminating barriers between disciplines to develop innovative designs that reduce energy and water and create a better human experience.The firm’s diverse body of work has earned the industry’s top awards and set new benchmarks for building performance, proving that there is a better process for designing buildings. No Excuses presents a beautifully curated collection of LPA projects that illustrate what can be achieved through a collaborative design process with architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects working together from a development’s earliest stages.The projects cross a wide range of sizes and types, including transformational education, commercial, civic, cultural and healthcare facilities.Each was created through a repeatable process focused