In 2007, the BetterBricks Design and Construction (D&C) initiative made significant advances in promoting changes in practice that lead to low-energy, integrated design solutions. The network of five integrated design labs (IDLs) and the BetterBricks Business Advisor assisted architecture firms throughout the region on dozens of projects in the target markets, began promoting a uniform description of the concept of integrated design (ID), and expanded the number of firm focus (FF) firms to five with the addition of two of the largest architecture firms in the region as FF partners in the late summer and fall of 20071.
