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This is your Brain on Space: Architecture and Neurology

An introduction to human neurology in relation to the built environment. Research raising awareness of how architecture impacts the neurology of the […]

Empowering People to Collaborate to Innovate Through the Integrative Process

Learn how the integrative design process provides a natural means for collaboration and innovation to occur, producing high-performance, sustainable facilities. T­­his piece […]

Enabling Competitive Advantage Through Workplace Design

This article demonstrates how one company, an urban clothing manufacturer, leveraged the workplace for marketing, employee attraction and retention. Their new campus […]

Project Programming: The Basis of Good Design and Best Value for Your Facility Investment

Learn how to define project requirements, practice value engineering, optimize facility design, and ensure customer satisfaction through project programming, a problem identification […]

Ep. 37: Creating Inspiring Workplaces | Jeremy Macdonald - Adobe

Jeremy Macdonald, LEED AP, MCR is on a mission to create amazing and inspiring workspaces so that Adobe employees can reach their […]

Employee Control in the Workplace: The Power of Choice

Changing the workplace without giving employees some form of control in the design can adversely impact employee health, safety and welfare. Accordingly, […]

Innovating for Impact by Designing for Delight

As facilities managers we must keep putting great products in front of our customers in order to be seen as a vital […]

Ep. 36: Social Research, People Analytics and the “Science of Delight” in the Workplace | Melissa Marsh - PLASTARC and Savills Studley

Melissa Marsh is Founder and Executive Director of PLASTARC and Director of Occupant Experience at Savills Studley where she uses social research […]

Designing for Focus Work

In today’s ever changing and uncertain world, few things are constant. One of them is the basic human need to focus or […]

Small Space, Big Impact: MIBG Treatment Suites for Pediatric Patients

Case study detailing the space design of the MIBG treatment suites at Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, GA.