Week Ten

Our expert on the Living Building Challenge, Joel, met with us early in the week to discuss some of the similar topics my supervisor and I used during our conference call with Shawn. We wanted to now if there was any existing thought regarding questions already being asked of the sustainability of professional services previously purchased by the city. In the meeting, Joel shared some of his frustration in the contracted services prior to his employment. Joel informed us that the city was now requiring all new buildings being drafted for construction must undergo LEED certification at the gold level. However, nothing was being asked about how these services carry out their internal operations. From our meeting, I established some questions to directly use for the architectural, engineering, construction, and landscaping services. I then began to work on the survey in which was the end goal for this project. I created an account on survey monkey to make a draft that could be sent to potential professional services. 

I utilized skip logic so these services would not undergo survey fatigue. This topic of survey fatigue was used over and over again in the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's Summer Summit that my supervisor attended prior to my internship. By using this type of logic, service providers taking the survey would only answer the questions that pertained to them. By doing so, I hoped to avert any reluctance to answering the survey in full.