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Work Workers Workplace: Improving Branch Performance Through Empathetic Design

A guide for understanding institutional and end-user needs of physical banking branches, addressing factors related to the evolution of empathetic design: global […]

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.

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 […]

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.