ABSTRACT
Environmental design research entails consideration of need fulfilment at the individual, social and ecological levels of function. Environmental designing implies introducing changes that rearrange the spatial and functional relationships among individuals, or aggregates of them extending to the entire biosphere. Efforts to modify the environment, whether at initial design phases or more terminal implementation phases, require information transmission, decision making and policy formation within and between institutions or formal organizations. Broad topics such as implied by the term “environment” are too encompassing to be effectively dealt with under the rubric of the mission of any single institution. The more diffused social context that affects environmental designing research presents an even greater degree of intransigency. The Military Construction Directorate of the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for planning, design, construction and maintenance support for military installations all over the world. The landmark general statute for the built environment can be the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
