Mackenzie Associate Principal, Director of Communications and Equitable Design, Jan Mason wrote in the Seattle DJC's AE Perspectives series that, 

“To remain relevant and strategic, companies must make environmental, social and governance an essential best practice as a business framework.”

She continued:

Nearly every conversation on business strategy, planning, and development, echoes a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues. Now more than ever, companies are recognizing that data and research underpin the business case for not only evaluating their organizational policies and procedures with DEI but that it is imperative to business practice to foster and shape all aspects of an organization’s responsibility and role in society.

This subject matter is nothing new to design firms. As champions of the public’s health, safety, and welfare, protecting people and the planet is fundamental to those involved in architecture and engineering design disciplines. Inclusive, trauma-informed, and critical race design approaches are existing methodologies already practiced in specific project types.

 

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