Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: How Cadillac Fairview Got Its Design Standards Unstuck

A building standard can die in committee. At Cadillac Fairview, lighting automation and metering standards stalled because too many people with different expertise had a say.

Blake Hyde (Director, Property Technology, Cadillac Fairview) and Dave Hiemstra (Senior Associate, Smith and Andersen) explain how they restructured the group into a smaller set of technical decision-makers with a clear tie-breaker, and what that changed about getting a basis of design finished.

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