The information we produce identifies functional problems with buildings and places at the strategic front end of the design process and at any later stage. Our systematic method for arriving at conclusions are based on court-recognized scientific processes. Modeling has become essential to diagnosis and prediction in most fields. No one today would design a complex building without using models to analyze the structural design because structural failures can be life threatening.
Functional failures threaten the economic life of a building or place.
But, even though real estate is one of the most capital-intensive enterprises, the products of real estate decisions are still tested using trial and error approaches relying largely on intuition and experience. No wonder there's higher risk. On one hand, unlike information and models about structural design, or even aesthetic design, information about functional design is usually subjective and intuitively processed. On the other, commonly available objective information and analytic methods are generally inappropriate to design. You can't reduce uncertainty without method.