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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 […]

Humanizing the Workplace: Using Design Principles to Inspire Workplace Thinking

As part of the “Sodexo 2016 Workplace Trends Report,” the following set of design principles has both gaps and areas of substantial […]

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, […]

COBie, from Design to Operations

This white paper demonstrates that a COBie-based building information exchange can be successfully implemented in the private sector on a large scale […]

First Steps to Successful Deployment of BIM for Health Care Operations

This white paper offers health care facility managers a starting point for determining how to apply the overwhelming amount of data captured […]

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 […]

The Role of FM in Students' Images of Hospitality

This piece emphasizes on the importance of hospitality in the Netherlands and the role FM students play to make sure hospitality remains […]

IFMA COE Space Types Tips Protocols

A one page workspace protocol guide for IFMA Center of Excellence (COE) occupants, to support understanding of differing types of workspaces in […]

A Comprehensive Guide to Water Conservation: The Bottom Line Impacts, Challenges and Rewards

Build a basic understanding of the current issues surrounding water use, including critical issues, benchmarking and evaluation related to reduction of water […]

Workplace Strategies: Innovation at the Edge

Learn how workplace strategy and design innovators are aligning design, technology, culture, workforce demographics and work processes to reinforce each other and […]