Destination Medical City

SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK

Destination Medical Center (DMC) is an innovative economic development initiative that is taking steps to advance sustainability and become a leader in the advancement of human health and wellness at the neighborhood scale. The DMC’s has five core objectives – sustain, grow, leverage, create and provide.  While at BuroHappold, Steven created a sustainability framework to complement the DMC’s five core objectives and provide a rigorous and actionable basis for achieving specific sustainability goals.

This framework provided a detailed process and procedure for planning, monitoring, reporting, evaluating and reviewing performance and identified goals, targets and key performance indicators (KPI) in select focus areas that spanned environmental, social and economic impact areas. The framework was also organized around multiple scales of influence, including the DMC-scale; initiatives and policies centered around city, state and region; and smaller scale guidelines and strategies, such as place and buildings.

Location:  Rochester, MN

Client:  DMC Date: 2014

Collaborators:    Perkins Eastman / EE&K.