Are they selecting designers on their sustainability knowhow? 4. Embedding sustainable design in corporate sustainability programs: does the clients' sustainability strategy set targets and goals for sustainable products and services to mandate design involvement?
In Italy recently the regulatory authority for electricity, gas and the water industry was mandated to design a new tariff method more consistent with EU standards of 'full cost recovery' and the 'polluter pays' rules.
The IOM has been mandated to design projects aiming at "strengthening the development component of the Mobility Partnership" in Moldova and Georgia, initiatives that have again mainly consisted in building the capacities of the national policy-makers, in identifying "best practices" and encouraging the mobilization of the diaspora.
In response to these concerns, the 16th Meeting of the UN System Senior Fellowship Officers (Paris, November 2006) mandated the design of a generic evaluation framework that defines the scope, dimensions and core indicators for evaluating the impact of UN Fellowship programmes [ 2].
But the Obama White House was savvier in its mandate design, and the C.B.O. was more compliant in its scoring.
The first is the complex survey design that mandated incorporation of design factors and survey weights, for overall analyses and analyses within the subsets (domains).
They hired a public relations firm that mandated modernization, designing a (short-lived) corporate-looking logo.
Since Brian France took over, NASCAR has mandated changes designed to make the sport safer and more fan-friendly.
Benefits Design, Insurance Exchanges, and Cherry-Picking: As Professor Krugman points out, Massachusetts has been proactive in mandating benefits design, showing a level of political will that may be absent on the national stage.
The introduction of antiendocrine agents with differing mechanisms of action now mandates the design of rational sequential hormonal regimens for breast cancer.
And Mr. Gehry was intrigued by the foundation's mandate: designing a master plan to convert the 3.5-acre former corporate campus into a multidisciplinary arts complex that will include year-round cultural programming.
