A landscape architect, a civil engineer, and a city planner collaborate to reduce stormwater runoff...

This collaboration is an example of the integrative process. LEED encourages project teams to work across disciplines early so they can identify synergies, avoid conflicts, and improve whole-building performance. Reducing stormwater runoff may involve landscape design, grading, civil engineering, soils, vegetation, open space, hardscape selection, rain gardens, permeable pavement, and local planning requirements. Because these decisions affect multiple systems, collaboration among the landscape architect, civil engineer, and city planner can produce better outcomes than isolated decision-making. Siloed design is the opposite approach, where disciplines work separately and may miss opportunities. Rainwater management is the specific performance goal, but the question asks what strategy the collaboration represents. A life-cycle approach evaluates impacts over time but does not directly describe team collaboration.