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Our Design Process

Working collectively with our clients, every BHDP team follows our eight-phase Design Process to extract an intimate understanding of our clients’ needs so their people, organizational model, processes, culture, brand equities, challenges, expectations, and goals are carefully explored and accurately identified prior to the ideation of design solutions. As opposed to designing to a moment in time, we want to know where our clients are going so our design solutions remain relevant with future changes. This collaborative, transparent approach ensures the project achieves the results our clients require. 

Investing in Emerging Design Technology 

We embrace technology to support innovation and improve our project delivery approach by leveraging the newest generation of design and collaboration tools available. These technology platforms offer a competitive advantage to our clients and are core to our SmartWork initiative. We are continually integrating advanced technology into our process applications while exploring new emerging technologies for future opportunities. 
 

VR and AR Technology

To assist clients at critical decision-making stages, we have integrated virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology into our Design Process. Recently, our designers used VR to finalize the design of a well-known regional theater. While delivering options for its new stage and seating areas, we were able to virtually place the client team in every individual seat of the theater to demonstrate how our design enhanced the experience from every patron’s viewpoint.

Our Commitment to Social Responsibility

Celebrating Diversity and Fostering Inclusion

We believe our promise, Design for People, is strengthened by embracing diversity and fostering inclusion across our organization as well as with partners, clients, and within our communities. For more than eight decades, we have been committed to leading our business in a socially responsible way and promoting our cultural values that accept and respect all races, ethnicities, religions, gender identities, and sexual orientations. This is also present in our collaborative Design Process which begins by asking, listening, and seeking to better Understand and Discover the strengths and diverse talents of individuals. At BHDP, we strive to:

• Actively seek engagements that encourage diversity and inclusion.
• Provide opportunities for underrepresented communities to engage with the design profession and understand it as a viable career path.
• Engage and collaborate with underrepresented businesses to foster and leverage their diverse strengths and talents.
• Seek partnerships with universities to expand the pool of diversity and inclusion talent resources in our profession and firm.

Focusing on Sustainability

At BHDP, we are committed to both designing for our clients and operating our business in a sustainable manner. Through several initiatives and local partnerships, our firm has made actionable changes and strives to meet daily and long-term environmental goals.

Across all of our offices, we have worked with our landlords to have recycling in place, retrofitted all of our lighting systems to LED, and scheduled our HVAC and lighting systems to turn off when our offices are unoccupied. Furthering our commitments, the following partnerships and goals allow us to remain at the forefront of sustainable practices for our clients:

• BHDP serves the Cincinnati 2030 District as a professional partner.
• Client Leader Daniel Lessing is an active leader of the Cincinnati 2030 District as the Chairperson of the Energy Impact Team as well as a member of the Green Umbrella Advisory Committee.
• BHDP is working toward accrediting at least 50 percent of our designers in LEED or WELL.
• We have incorporated BHDP's Six Focus Areas into our QA/QC Processes to achieve 100 percent application to our projects.