Heitzman Architect's Goals to achieve High Performance Buildings:

1. Establish a collaborative team approach during the design phase, assuring cooperation among building owner, facility manager, users, designers and contractors.

2. Engage the local and regional communities at all stages of the process.

3. Educate building users on the philosophy, strategies and controls included in the design, construction, and maintenence of the building.

4. Advocate for a vision that places a high value on preservation of existing buildings and materials.

5. Design buildings that are energy-efficient.

6. Consider embodied energy of all products used in the construction and completed building.

7. Consider the true cost of a building's impact on the local and regional environment.

8. Consider life-cycle costs of all products specified. That is the cost of manufacture, operation, maintenence and disposal.

9. Create opportunities for interaction with the natural environment.

10. Maximize use of local building materials.

11. Minimize demolition.

12. Minimize construction waste.

13. Create buildings that can easily be reconfigured and reused.

14. Create buildings with healthy indoor environments.

15. Use low-tech products and systems.

The Seven Principles of Sustainable Buildings:

1. Reduce resource consumption.

2. Reuse resources.

3. Use recyclable resources.

4. Protect nature.

5. Eliminate toxics.

6. Apply life-cycle costing.

7. Focus on quality.