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Since joining us in February 2022, Leonard has established updates on BUZZ for webinars for the staff to
attend as well as “Tech Minute” information on building envelope points of interest. He is up to date on
building envelope systems, and this has allowed him to create an FGMA standard for Building Enclosure
Process Protocols. He has jumped into the FGMA standard detail collection to review and markup as
appropriate and he will continually monitor these standards to keep current. He has created an update to
the building code template standard as an excel spreadsheet to be used and incorporated on the code
drawing sheets. He is currently reviewing our specification vendor and working to establish a
unified/singular specification software system to implement into firmwide use, he is working with a team
on updating our Project Delivery Manual (PDM) from a static document to a live, online and continually
updated document which will reside on BUZZ with links to current information.

Moving into FY23, Leonard will continue to be more involved with refining our process to allow us to raise
the quality of our design. I would like everyone in the firm to keep in mind, Leonard is available and very
easy to approach, and everyone should feel comfortable reaching out to him as a resource on anything
on our documentation process. He is always available and loves to solve any technical challenges that
arise on our projects.

As the Sustainability Leader, Lucy Williams has begun to assist us our
commitment of the strategic plan objectives include fully integrating
sustainability, resilience, and wellness in all our work by 2025. These
goals include:
• Demonstrating improvement in all sustainability, resiliency
and wellness metrics across all projects.
• Ensuring 100% of FGMA offices are consistent with quality
design work and commitments to sustainability, resilience,
and wellness.

The intention of this new position is to serve as a springboard for FGMA
to expand our service offerings, reputation and expertise in these topics
as well as raise the quality, consistency, impact, and efficiency of our work. Pushing this strategic initiative
forward is an opportunity for FGMA to rethink and reform our process and product to one of design
excellence that includes sustainability, resilience, and wellness across our entire portfolio.
Using the current strategic plan, the 2021 Sustainability Action Plan, and feedback received from the
recently issued sustainability survey, a roadmap has been outlined. It suggests a plan for achieving our
strategic goals by focusing on four key topics:

• Pipeline: incorporate sustainability, resilience and wellness into our marketing process.
• People: expand staff skills and knowledge.
• Process: fully integrate sustainability, resilience, and wellness into our design services and
workflow.
• Projects: develop firm-wide consistent protocols and deliverables.

The roadmap recommends a three-step approach to transition the firm towards integrative design:

• Awareness: internal knowledge sharing and establishing guiding principles and policies.
• Advocacy: talking to each other, clients, consultants & product representatives.
• Action: translating the gained knowledge into our day-to-day activities and conversations.

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