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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.
What Makes Us Unique?
The values in what you live and experience guides our work. What that means is that
1) you are far more likely to need less capital, and
2) far more l likely to get more value from what is ultimately built or changed.
Our goal is that the outcome utterly reflects your needs, solving problems and forming your aspirations.
Our service is for people who need new buildings or other built environments. We are very open to any type of project. This can be new projects or many kinds of change to an existing place.
We listen and we hear your values. We empower you to get your deserved great results, and to maximize your ROI.
Plan well ...
Start planning early.
To plan well, start early with developing your goals and aspirations.
We understand complex and contradictory elements. We form requirements reflecting the flow of your life or process in your business to link your life or work with the flow of a project.
We evolve those requirements into space programming, form and constructive options. A spectrum of constructive paths that can realize a built environment that supports your aspirations gives you strategic options that allow you to make the best decisions.
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Our services provide guidance that works with your values and needs. We may even help you to avoid a construction project! Our project planning services are without conflict of interest because our packages don't depend on the size of your project. The outcome of our work is specific to what you need and empowers you to make the best possible choices.
ENVHA focuses on your values and aspirations as the foundation for the entire project plan. We will work with you to arrive at clarity on issues in situations where quickness is needed or you need a knowledgeable discussion. Our Mini-Consult service at $249 may allow you to make better value decisions.
Our Dwelling Betterment Report is provided to help you resolve problems that hinder your relationships, your process (in business), and your health. We help you define the requirements that solve problems and provide a spectrum of interventions that include reconfiguration over costly new builds or major renovation, showing you efficient paths to built results that support your aspired aims. The DBR is based on a cost of $3200. This cost may be reduced for smaller projects and rise in some cases.
Our Vision Package extends to provide visioning images and diagrams to more fully define your project, imaging more fully the future that you aspire, and allowing better communication with your contractors and consultants.
We provide you with a more evolved planning and project concept. Contact us to allow us to customize our service to your specific requirements.
This two hour consultation is with an experienced professional to assist you with decision–making on property and buildings.
Discover your project according to your specific needs and aspirations, by finding and engaging opportunities, to create your ideal 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.
Your family circumstances are evolving. Your your business may be growing and its needs changing. Sometimes the change goes beyond what the spaces of your environment can accommodate. Purchasing a new building or early planning for a project will often have difficult questions. You may face logistical issues and problems in your building that affect the business opportunity you aim to realize. As you engage solutions, you should get input that helps you to make decisions to reduce your risk and cost early. You can get professional feedback form ENVHA before making a decision. Input for that can be found quickly.
The ENVHA Mini-Consult helps you make decisions — or come to quick decisions. From evaluating new property options to analyzing early planning options. This service assists you in deciding on an approach, taking next steps, timeframe, and other technical choices that define pragmatic outcomes.
You have decided that you can go ahead with your project based on what you really want, with pragmatic outcomes. Now how to get it done? Your project solves needs, it is an intuitive set of requirements that need to made into spaces and organized within them.
• Your family is ready for needed changes to your home.
• You, your business partners, your staff, your accountant or your banker have agreed on funding to alter your place of business.
• As a contractor or designer, you may need to help your client develop their needs and requirements.
Issues that can change our intended project do come up when we begin a project. We generally face logistical issues. It may be difficult to find the right people to provide what you need. But we need to adhere to the solutions and quality that we are looking to support in our home or place of business. Typical comments and responses that sound black and white can be daunting.
You will get comments and responses that sound black and white. This can be daunting:
"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 can define your goals strongly enough to guide your course and to hold it. That means that you need the right information that is based on your needs and values to handle circumstances and to not compromise unnecessarily.
The Dwelling Betterment Report (DBR) is our flagship product. It is designed to help you get satisfactory planning to set your project on a path to success. You will get an assessment of possibilities through discussion and analysus, unpacking a pat answer rejecting your goals. The DBR is based on listening to your needs and understanding your values and your environment. We work with a proprietary system to provide you with requiremnts to form the results as you them. Once you have requirements that represent your values and need, and paths to realize them, you will get the services you need and the right people to work with, and avoid unnecessary compromises. Consultants can more effectively respond, and they will respond more positvely.
Proceed confidently with your values properly envisioned as your planned goal. We help you to do that with practical paths that allowyou to negotiate the conditions, and to reduce time and money spent. Here ishow we do that:
"This will be very expensive."
We help to refine the project needs and developpaths toward your values and outcomes. We find out what exactly is importantfor you! We help define what spaces you need or change that will help yourfamily or your business? We help you define the value to you of the thebuilding, its cost and the outcome.
"It looks too complicated."
ENVHA works to organize your ideas and your wishescoherently as an environment, as spacers, and building that can do what youneed and what it takes to make it happen. We handle the complexity. We make apackage that you can use. You will be able to communicate with your consultantswho will theen take it on your project with enthusiasm.
"Next year, if we have time."
A consultant has to take on projects according totheir capacity. The consultant will feel less risk if you are confident andhave clarity about your project. A well organized client with clear needs is ajoy to take on. That benefits both sides of a relationship. The consultant willthen provide better cost effective results.
"We cannot help you. What you want is impossible."
What a particular consultant does or does not do doesnot define what is possible. Not all builders and designers do what you need.No one provider does everything. The DBR is a document that allows you to betterseek out the right consultants by clearly showing them what you plan.
"We don't do this."
... maybe they don't, but once you know what youneed, with your DBR in hand, you can find the right consultants and worktogether, developing trust better.
For contractors and other design consultants, our(B2B) service can bring you and your client to clear and actionable decisions. WithENVHA's service can harmonize your offered service with the project.
Now you're ready to focus on preparing the actual work in a practical way. You understand the cost and the time budget and the benefits that your building will provide. You will know how a bigger investment vs. results compare so that you can make decisions. No doubt some tough choices and risk may remain, but you will have a lot of clarity and confidence.
Now that you have chosen a path for your project based on the DBR Directions you feel ready to engage the work. A lot of decisions remain. You may increase the detail of the proposal beyond the DBR document with ENVHA. We can give the project more developmental clarity. We can provide more depth, more detail for the project. This will allow your to build a more robust and valued relationship with consultants, work more effectively with the contractor. Also if you are a contractor, with the client.
The ENVHA Vision Package helps you to jump start the process of your project development. We can develop the project further with planning that includes diagrams, space and structural development (if needed), we will provide a concept proposal. Suggestions for needed changes include building type/structure, floor plan schemes, and much more. We can deepen the connection with nature and with your people. 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 your chosen specific construction and material processes to the proposal.
In this phase the construction and other work to realize your project are being prepared. You are relaxed because the project is now well defined by the DBR and the Vision Package, with the course of action well underway. This stage proceeds with detail design, contract drawings, permits, prefab work, procurement and defining the delivery schedule. If we have concluded that we need only reconfigure the space planning, operational modifications or other non-constructional remedies, we have much less work remaining.
The excitement of real forward movement, new things, and new places is now here. Whether this is a reprogramming project, an addition, to rebuild or renovate, or new construction, this will improve your life and your work. You are using as little capital as possible and you will get the maximum value for that.
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. Each benefitts from careful low-cost early-planning decisions.
We and nature are mutually dependent. Our minds and hearts are affected by and impress upon the life around us. ENVHA provides for this relationship within its process. Our approach is based on yogic and architectural 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 that anchors your values in the planning, design and results. We focus on anchoring support for your feeling of health and your sense of wellbeing at your place, to make your environment a very desirable place to be.
The colours you see in the ENVHA logo refer to five components of our system.
Contentment / Earth
This is about acceptance, balance and forbearance. Your environment can support these through elements that support these in your life and work. These smooths family life and enhances positive growth. These appropriate conditions in a work place remove hardships for employees, increase productive time.
Calm / Space
With peace comes calm and with calm comes greater capacity. Kindness and caring are more accessible. Design decisions can reflect the intention for calm and create peace through the changes made in elements of the space and building. This is also relevant where we need to do hard work, keeping the mind clear and helping us to find our best approach.
Compassion / Fire
Compassion brings poise to a team, a family and in business endeavours. Love conquers all. There is poise. This reduces irritation and smooths volatile moments. Good behaviour is essential to reduce hindrances in projects and for positive relationships.
Courage / Water
Planning decisions can instil courage to support a new direction for a family or a business. Proper planning can provide supportive constellations that affect us daily, ally worries and melt away dismay. Such an environment can support better responses in our daily life and work.
Clarity / Air
Good planning will support clarity. A well planned environment IS clarity. Our planning identifies points that lack clarity and defines your goals at many points. ENVHA works for you in the early stages when a project is set in motion. We develop the value of your activities as measure of design for clarity in form and material. Clarity will reflect in your everyday process at work or your home life, in the activities and the relationships that take place there.
These elements allow us to connect the value system that you have with human nature and nature all around. We harmonize with building technological and traditional systems with personal values.
Control your project's character and the components that influence cost so that you get the best value environment.
Understand the individual elements of your spaces 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.
Your set of actionable paths provides you with a variety of project costs and outcomes that you can adjust.
We provide clear, well organized and well formatted documents, including diagrams, images and other media to communicate your project well.
Transform your environment with your requirements and values in building or landscape terms that are understood by the construction and related industries.
— structures and augments your decision-making process.
— serves better communication within families at home, within your working group and community, and with consultants and contractors.
— ENVHA's products are are for planning change and evolution into your home or business, making it ready for a new stage of change toward the future. We help you to solve problems and resolve needs and prepare construction. ENVHA knows how to plan and design these into your building and its spaces to embody who your are and what your business needs to thrive.
— works with people, not buildings. We listen and we hear you. ENVHA goes beyond generic solutions.