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Donna Brink, a musician in Errington, faces tension with neighbors over noise from her practice. Limited practice space affects family activities, but they prefer not to rent. They own ample land and find travel disruptive. Unsure if their project warrants an architect, they consider utilizing their 3000 sf house.
ENVHA: Proposed reconfiguring rooms to create a dedicated practice space away from sensitive neighbors. This solution avoids costly renovations or building anew. The Dwelling Betterment Report offers a feasible resolution for Donna and her family.
Dolly and Fred are empty nesters. They have discovered yoga and meditation. Their Nanaimo home of 20 years feels inappropriate now. They want to know their options before they embark on changing it. The contractors that they met feel that it will be a big project, while a designer is ready to make plans. Neither has much time to listen to input from the couple.
Consultant: To make a nice yoga room they will have to spend at least $100000. How do we know what this means?
ENVHA has questions for the couple about the kind of space Dolly and Fred feel that they need. Through the Discovery Dialogue ... Meeting and bringing the information into our system, we can assess how the existing spaces in the home can be converted according to the couple's values. Dolly and Fred can assess and choose from of the spectrum of paths that the Dwelling Betterment Report provides to them. They can choose with the clarity that knowing their values brings.
Wellbeing for the future of your business or for your family are worth planning well. ENVHA's service is to provide essential project planning, consulting for key value management, decision making and visioning that reflects the results you seek and the changes needed to get there.
Our services are about you and people, strengthening relationships between people and between poeple and the environment, based on the values behind your intentions and aspiration. We help you to define what you need to make the best possible choices to solve your needs and to build your aspirations into your environment.
Planning is dependent on your values,
understanding conflicts and contradictions, finding opportunities, and evolving your aspirations to reveal what you need to do to attain a supportive environment. In working with your home we orientate to all the family members in the space of your life and house. For businesses, we also begin with the people, but engage the flow of processes to link the quality of life, the flow of community, your daily work and your ROI.
We empower you to define your path and to get the consulting services that you require so that you receive your deserved great results.
Read on for a description of our service that may inspire you.
Our products provide guidance to discover and work with the values that you have. The path forward may be a change in how you use the place, or it may be some variation on a construction project. We may help you to avoid a construction project. You can be confident that we provide project planning without conflict of interest because we work with your house, work place, or other environment, specifically and personally to find the most effective path. The outcome of our work is specific to what you need and empowers you to make the best possible choices.
ENVHA is about people and their aspirations, but we know how buildings work and how building works.
ENVHA will work with you to arrive at clarity on issues in situations where quickness is needed or you need a knowledgeable discussion through our Mini-Consult service starting at $199. This may allow you to make long lasting better value good decisions. Our Dwelling Betterment Report is provided to help you resolve problems that hinder your health and happiness. It defines paths to design the most effective support with your resources. We help you define the changes you need to solve problems and to show you efficient paths to provide for the growth and evolution that you require for your aspired aims. The DBR is based on a cost of $2749. This is reduced for smaller projects and rises in some cases. Our Vision Package will provide images and diagrams to more fully express your project and more fully communicate with your contractors and consultants.
The Vision Package will provide you with a more evolved planning and project concept and documentation. It can be based on your DBR. Please contact us to allow us to respond to your specific requirements.
This two hour consultation is with an experienced design professional to assist you with decision–making on property and buildings.
To augment how to proceed with your project according to your aspiration and to your specific needs, opportunities, and issues that create the demand for change to your environment.
The following Client Journey explains the value added to your project in a variety of common circumstances. The support that ENVHA's services and products provide are shown at the stage of your journey that they may serve.
Your family circumstances are evolving. Your business is growing and its needs are changing. Sometimes the change goes beyond what your environment — a home or place of work — can accommodate. You may face technical issues that affect the business opportunity you aim to realize and need feedback on problems before making a decision. As you engage solutions, you may need input to make better decisions. Purchasing a new building being and early planning will often have difficult to answer questions. You need to reduce your risk. Sometimes these decisions need to be made quickly.
The ENVHA Mini-Consult serves you to make better decisions — quickly, when decisions are required immediately. From evaluating new property options to analyzing pre–planning options to decide on an approach, on next steps, timeframe and other technical choices, this service assists you to define values for pragmatic outcomes specific to your situation.
You are ready to go ahead with your project.
• Your project was chosen based on pragmatic needs, intuitive valuation or perhaps it came serendipidously.
• Your family is ready for needed changes to your home.
• Your business partners, staff, accountant or your banker have agreed on funding to alter the business spaces.
As you approach consultants to proceed with the work you may hear comments meant to prepare you for difficulties that make you want to knock back the scope, lower your expectations or increase your budget. You might hear responses similar to the following:
"This will be very expensive."
"It looks too complicated."
"Our way is your solution. Otherwise, we cannot help you."
"What you want is impossible."
"Next year, if we have time."
"We don't do this."
You need the right information to proceed confidently and develop the value that you had envisioned. With ENVHA's service, this begins with your own values and aspirations. If you are a contractor or other design consultant, our service can bring your client to clear and actionable decisions. We can harmonize your offered service with their needs.
The Dwelling Betterment Report (DBR), our flagship product, is designed to help you get that satisfactory planning for your project. You want a discussion of possibilities, not a pat answer or rejection of your goals. The DBR is based on listening to your needs and understanding you values and your environment. We work with your values in our proprietary system to provide you with new requiremnts to form the change that you need. Once you understand the values and the requirements you have, and paths to realize them, you can avoid unnecessary compromises. Consultants can more effectively respond, and they will respond more positvely.
If a contractor or design consultant engages with a confident client with clear project goals, they will feel less risk and you will be better partners. With the Dwelling Betterment Report, a lot of difficulties will melt away.
"This will be very expensive."
We help to refine your needs and ways toward your project outcomes. Exactly what is important for you? What change will help your family or your business? What is the value to you of the practical aspects and costs associated with the intended change?
"It looks too complicated."
ENVHA works to organize your ideas and your wishes coherently with what an environment and a building can do for you, and what it takes to create it. We create a simple package that handles the complexity around the elements that will provide for your values. You will be able to express the project to your consultants, and they will take it on with greater enthusiasm.
"Our way is your solution. Otherswise we cannot help you. What you want is impossible."
What a particular consultant does or does not do (or know how to do) does not define what is possible. Not all builders and designers will do what you need. No one provider can do everything. The DBR allows you to develop your needs and planning ideas clearly and constructively so that you may better seek out the right consultants.
"Next year, if we have time."
A consultant feels less risk if you are confident and have clarity about your project. Even better, you have resolved sketches or other requirements clearly presented. They will prioritize differently, and be able to provide more cost effective results.
"We don't do this."
... maybe they don't, but once you know what you need, with your DBR in hand, you can find the right consultants and work together, developing trust better. A contractor may discover a path to provide a new service through the DBR outcomes.
You are now ready to focus on preparing to realize the project in a positive and practical way. You understand the general cost and the time budget vs the benefits that your built environment will provide. You will know how a bigger investment vs. smaller changes compare so that you can make decisions on the consultant's outcomes. You may even decide on a path that allows you to avoid construction expenses. No doubt some tough choices and risk may remain, but you will be working with clarity.
Now that a path has been chosen from among the DBR Directions, there is a lot of confidence, and we feel ready to engage the work. There remain a lot of qualitative and quantitative decisions. You may feel a need to increase the detail or scope beyond that of the DBR document to give the project more developmental clarity. You want to see more depth to your goal and to better understand the way to address it. You can build a more robust and valuable relationship with the consultant if you are a business or home owner, or with the client as a builder, with a better defined project.
The ENVHA Vision Package can help you to jump start the process of developing your project. In most cases, we will have enough information, along with your confident decisions for your chosen path. We may develop the project further with planning that includes diagrams, space and structural development (if needed), we will provide a basic schematic concept proposal. These suggestions for needed changes can include the type of home, building type/structure, floor plan schemes, etc. We can expand on the connection with nature and with your nature and aspirations. For businesses the Vision Package may include operations management and flow/process diagramming in coherence with your requirements already defined.
The designer and consultant producing the building documents, as well as preparations for construction, can proceed using this document.
In this phase the construction and other work are prepared. You are relaxed because the project is now well defined by the Vision Package and the course of action is well underway. This stage includes detail design, contract drawings, permits, prefab work, procurement and defining the delivery schedule.
The excitement of new things, new places and real forward movement is now here. Whether this is a reprogramming project, an addition, a rebuild or renovation, or new construction, the one you have chosen will have the result of improving your life and your work. You are using as little capital as possible and you will get the maximum value for that.
We and nature are mutually dependent. Our minds and hearts are affected by and impress on the life around us. ENVHA provides for this relationship within the balanced foundation of its process. Our approach is based on yogic principles, derived to build on today’s knowledge, to mitigate harm and to link our inner potential with worldly aspiration. This is a highly pragmatic approach to anchoring value at the natural human impressions that we all have as we experience the places we live and work in. This approach anchors value at the point of feeling health and appreciating our own greatest sense of wellbeing at a place. This will make your environment a desirable place to be. The colours you see in the ENVHA logo refer to these five components.
Contentment / Earth
This is acceptance, balance and forbearance. Your environment can support balance through elements of design that support the conditions of your life and work. Planning decisions reflect these. Inappropriate conditions, such as in a work place that creates hardships for employees, reducing productive time, cause discontentment.
Calm / Space
With peace comes calm and better attitudes. Kindness and caring are more accessible. Design decisions that reflect the intention for calm create peace in the changes we seek.
Compassion / Fire
Compassion brings poise to a team, a family and in business endeavours. Love has poise. Such change reduces irritation and smooths volatile moments. Good human behaviour is essential. Your space can reduce hindrances to positive relationships.
Courage / Water
This is humility. Planning decisions can instill courage to assert a new direction. Proper planning can ally worries and remove dismay in supportive spatial constellations that affect us daily. Once occupied, an environment can support better responses to need and growth in our daily life and work.
Clarity / Air
Good planning will support clarity. ENVHA works for you in the early stages when a project is set in motion. Our planning identifies points that lack clarity and defnes your goals at each of them. Once we discriminate the value of our activities and needs with more certainty, there will be more clarity. That will reflect in your everyday process at work and your home life, and in the activities and relationships that take place there.
These elements allow us to connect with the value system that you may have. They can harmonize with traditional systems and they are used to apply personal values to our technological and scientific systems.
Understand your environment's character and the components that influence us so that you can create the best value evironment.
Transform your environment with your requirements and values in building or landscape terms that are understood by the construction and related industry.
Itemize and value individual elements so that you can better make better decisions.
Develop a set of actionable paths based on your needs, aspirations and values, and on your resources.
The set of actionable paths provides you with a variety of scales that you can adjust according to your desired project cost and time.
Documents are clearly formatted and well organized, with diagrams, images and other media to communicate well.
These three projects are selected to feature the Dwelling Betterment Report and the kinds of valuable targeted outcomes that we like to provide. They are small projects, and each benefitts from careful low-cost up-front planning decisions.
Serves your decision-making process.
Serves communication with family at home or with colleagues at work, and with consultants and contractors.
Planning for ongoing change and evolution of your home or business. ENVHA's products are a functional record of the stage of your family or business, ready for this and the next stage of change or problem solving serving your health and aspirational growth and evolution.
The following Client Journey explains the value added to your project in a variety of common circumstances. The support that ENVHA's services and products provide are shown at the stage of your journey that they may serve.
Your family circumstances are evolving. Your business is growing and its needs are changing. Sometimes the change goes beyond what your environment — a home or place of work — can accommodate. You may face technical issues that affect the business opportunity you aim to realize and need feedback on problems before making a decision. You want your home to be in a certain place, but the building needs to be better fitted. As you engage solutions, you may need input to make better decisions. Purchasing a new building being and early planning will often have difficult to answer questions. You need to reduce your risk. Sometimes these decisions need to be made quickly.
The ENVHA Mini-Consult serves you to make better decisions — or come to quick decisions required immediately. From evaluating new property options to analyzing pre-planning options to decide an approach, next steps, timeframe and other technical choices, this service assists you to define values for pragmatic outcomes.
You are ready to go ahead with your project.
• Your project was chosen based on pragmatic needs, intuitive valuation or perhaps it came serendipidously.
• Your family is ready for needed changes to your home.
• Your business partners, staff, accountant or your banker have agreed on funding to alter the business spaces.
• You are a contractor who needs to help your client develop their needs more concisely.
You approach consultants to proceed with the work. You may hear comments meant to prepare you for difficulties that make you want to knock back the scope, lower your expectations or increase your budget. You might hear responses similar to the following:
"This will be very expensive."
"It looks too complicated."
"Our way is your solution. Otherwise, we cannot help you."
"What you want is impossible."
"Next year, if we have time."
"We don't do this."
You need the right information to proceed confidently and develop the value that you had envisioned. With ENVHA's service, this begins with your own values and aspirations.
If you are a contractor or other design consultant, our service can bring your client to clear and actionable decisions. We can harmonize your offered service with their needs.
The Dwelling Betterment Report (DBR), our flagship product, is designed to help you get that satisfactory planning for your project. You want a discussion of possibilities, not a pat answer or rejection of your goals. The DBR is based on listening to your needs and understanding you values and your environment. We work with your values in our proprietary system to provide you with new requiremnts to form the change that you need. Once you understand the values and the requirements you have, and paths to realize them, you can avoid unnecessary compromises. Consultants can more effectively respond, and they will respond more positvely.
If a contractor or design consultant engages with a confident client with clear project goals, they will feel less risk and you will be better partners. With the Dwelling Betterment Report, a lot of difficulties will melt away.
"This will be very expensive."
We help to refine your needs and ways toward your project outcomes. Exactly what is important for you? What change will help your family or your business? What is the value to you of the practical aspects and costs associated with the intended change?
"It looks too complicated."
ENVHA works to organize your ideas and your wishes coherently with what an environment and a building can do for you, and what it takes to create it. We create a simple package that handles the complexity around the elements that will provide for your values. You will be able to express the project to your consultants, and they will take it on with greater enthusiasm.
"Our way is your solution. Otherswise we cannot help you. What you want is impossible."
What a particular consultant does or does not do (or know how to do) does not define what is possible. Not all builders and designers will do what you need. No one provider can do everything. The DBR allows you to develop your needs and planning ideas clearly and constructively so that you may better seek out the right consultants.
"Next year, if we have time."
A consultant feels less risk if you are confident and have clarity about your project. Even better, you have resolved sketches or other requirements clearly presented. They will prioritize differently, and be able to provide more cost effective results.
"We don't do this."
... maybe they don't, but once you know what you need, with your DBR in hand, you can find the right consultants and work together, developing trust better. A contractor may discover a path to provide a new service through the DBR outcomes.
You are now ready to focus on preparing to realize the project in a positive and practical way. You understand the general cost and the time budget vs the benefits that your built environment will provide. You will know how a bigger investment vs. smaller changes compare so that you can make decisions on the consultant's outcomes. You may even decide on a path that allows you to avoid construction expenses. No doubt some tough choices and risk may remain, but you will be working with clarity.
Now that a path has been chosen from among the DBR Directions, there is a lot of confidence, and we feel ready to engage the work. There remain a lot of qualitative and quantitative decisions. You may feel a need to increase the detail or scope beyond that of the DBR document to give the project more developmental clarity. You want to see more depth to your goal and to better understand the way to address it. You can build a more robust and valuable relationship with the consultant if you are a business or home owner, or with the client as a builder, by expressing the project with more clarity.
The ENVHA Vision Package can help you to jump start the process of developing your project. In most cases, we will have enough information, along with your confident decisions for your chosen path. We may develop the project further with planning that includes diagrams, space and structural development (if needed), we will provide a basic schematic concept proposal. These suggestions for needed changes can include the type of home, building type/structure, floor plan schemes, etc. We can expand on the connection with nature and your nature. For businesses the Vision Package may include operations management and flow/process diagramming in coherence with your requirements already defined. As a B2B service we can develop and adapt specific construction and material processes to the proposal.
The designer and consultant producing the building documents, as well as preparations fro construction can proceed using this document.
In this phase the construction and other work are prepared. You are relaxed because the project is now well defined by the Vision Package and the course of action is well underway. This stage includes detail design, contract drawings, permits, prefab work, procurement and defining the delivery schedule.
The excitement of new things, new places and real forward movement is now here. Whether this is a reprogramming project, an addition, a rebuild or renovation, or new construction, the one you have chosen will have the result of improving your life and your work. You are using as little capital as possible and you will get the maximum value for that.
We and nature are mutually dependent. Our minds and hearts are affected by and impress on the life around us. ENVHA provides for this relationship within the balanced foundation of its process. Our approach is based on yogic principles, derived to build on today’s knowledge, to mitigate harm and to link our inner potential with worldly aspiration. This is a highly pragmatic approach to anchoring value at the natural human impressions that we all have as we experience the places we live and work in. This approach anchors value at the point of feeling health and appreciating our own greatest sense of wellbeing at a place. This will make your environment a desirable place to be. The colours you see in the ENVHA logo refer to these five components.
Contentment / Earth
This is acceptance, balance and forbearance. Your environment can support balance through elements of design that support the conditions of your life and work. Planning decisions reflect these. Inappropriate conditions, such as in a work place that creates hardships for employees, reducing productive time, cause discontentment.
Calm / Space
With peace comes calm and better attitudes. Kindness and caring are more accessible. Design decisions that reflect the intention for calm create peace in the changes we seek.
Compassion / Fire
Compassion brings poise to a team, a family and in business endeavours. Love has poise. Such change reduces irritation and smooths volatile moments. Good human behaviour is essential. Your space can reduce hindrances to positive relationships.
Courage / Water
This is humility. Planning decisions can instill courage to assert a new direction. Proper planning can ally worries and remove dismay in supportive spatial constellations that affect us daily. Once occupied, an environment can support better responses to need and growth in our daily life and work.
Clarity / Air
Good planning will support clarity. ENVHA works for you in the early stages when a project is set in motion. Our planning identifies points that lack clarity and defnes your goals at each of them. Once we discriminate the value of our activities and needs with more certainty, there will be more clarity. That will reflect in your everyday process at work and your home life, and in the activities and relationships that take place there.
These elements allow us to connect with the value system that you may have. They can harmonize with traditional systems and they are used to apply personal values to our technological and scientific systems.
Understand your environment's character and the components that influence us so that you can create the best value evironment.
Transform your environment with your requirements and values in building or landscape terms that are understood by the construction and related industry.
Itemize and value individual elements so that you can better make better decisions.
Develop a set of actionable paths based on your needs, aspirations and values, and on your resources.
The set of actionable paths provides you with a variety of scales that you can adjust according to your desired project cost and time.
Documents are clearly formatted and well organized, with diagrams, images and other media to communicate well.
These three projects are selected to feature the Dwelling Betterment Report and the kinds of valuable targeted outcomes that we like to provide. They are small projects, and each benefitts from careful low-cost up-front planning decisions.
Serves your decision-making process.
Serves communication with family at home or with colleagues at work, and with consultants and contractors.
Planning for ongoing change and evolution of your home or business. ENVHA's products are a functional record of the stage of your family or business, ready for this and the next stage of change or problem solving serving your health and aspirational growth and evolution.