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Personnel Touch: The Bottom Line Impact Buildings Have on Occupants

With so much pressure on facility construction and operations to continually deliver services cheaper, the far greater benefit of improving personnel productivity […]

The New Landscape of Work: A new Paradigm of Work and its Impact on the Workplace

The workplace has traditionally been thought of as a singular self-contained unit, a place where one comes to engage in work whether […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Insulation Energy Savings: Key Issues and Performance Factors

An overview of the impact of energy performance in commercial construction; a discussion of the key issues in building-envelope design and construction; […]

Linking Corporate Office Design and Organizational Performance: Results from an HQ Renovation

Research findings arranged to compare the benefits of balancing user-centered design and prescriptive interior design to drive organizational change. Linking Corporate Office […]

Observation: Turning What you See Into Smart Information

As a facility manager, we care for our buildings by watching and looking. It is our job to notice the dirt on […]

The Architecture of Learning

Explore the evolution of learning styles and the various built environments and designs that best support them.