Physical Environment
Latest: Office Design Decisions Can Make (Or Break) Your Budget - In a new report, JLL compares build out costs across three office styles in 59 markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Office Design Decisions Can Make (Or Break) Your Budget
In a new report, JLL compares build out costs across three office styles in 59 markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Boeing Crowdsources Employee Ideas For Tax Reform Investment
The aerospace company’s investments focus on the future of employees and communities and include $100 million for "workplace of the future" facilities and infrastructure enhancements.
Indoor Environments’ Impact On Wellness To Be Studied
Well Living Lab will undertake a three-year scientific research plan to identify how indoor environments affect five facets of people’s lives.
GM LED Lighting Retrofit Saves Over $300,000 Annually
In addition to reducing energy consumption, replacing linear fluorescent lighting with tubular LED created a safer work environment at the auto maker’s Lake Orion, MI plant.
Stanton Chase LA, IWBI Team Up For Healthy Workplace Education
Stanton Chase will introduce clients to IWBI’s WELL Building Standard, which provides a meaningful solution to advance human health and well-being in the workplace.
Cambridge Sound Management And Lutron Partner
Sound masking integrates with occupancy sensors to provide automatic privacy for occupants upon their entering a room.
Top 8 Predictions For The Workplace Experience in 2018
These emerging and evolving concepts provide a framework around which facility management can plan and operate the workplace environments they oversee.
New Guidance On Achieving Joint Certification Of BREEAM, WELL
A new briefing paper from BRE And IWBI outlines how projects can achieve joint certification of BREEAM and the WELL Building Standard.
Art Installation At Amazon HQ Has Clear Impact
At the Seattle Amazon headquarters, “There Is Another Sky” by Spencer Finch graces an architectural canopy connecting two new office buildings on the campus.
Five Tips To Create An Inspirational Office
Aesthetics and the overall look of your office have more to do with employee satisfaction than you might think. Here's how to create a workspace that will inspire, boost employee morale, and retain talent.
Interior Solutions Firm dancker Opens Experience Center
Providing architectural, furniture, technology, and logistic solutions, the company redesigned its own workplace to assist clients while also improving the environment for its employees.
New Office Design Focuses On Construction Culture
In designing McCarthy Building Companies' Houston office, lauckgroup created productive spaces for employees while highlighting the firm's brand.
Question Of The Week: Artwork Procurement And Facility Management?
Options abound for organizations that are shopping for artwork to grace their facilities. What is your involvement, and where do you find art that fits the bill for your buildings?
Healthcare Facility Power Systems Unequipped For Digital Age
More than half of hospitals' power systems were built before benefits and demands of IoT were known, according to a new Schneider Electric survey.
NJIT Cuts Ribbon On New State-of-the-Art Wellness, Events Center
The state-of-the-art, multipurpose building provides large-scale space for professional conferencing, training, and career fairs, as well as social settings for the NJIT community.
Thinking About Designing Your Workplace Around Millennials? Stop!
Based on its research and experience, BHDP Architecture finds that the best way to think about Millennials and their impact on workplace design may be to think about them a lot less.
Flexibility To Work Remotely: The New Normal
Staples Workplace Survey reveals the ability to work remote is a “must have” for nearly half of employees.
Question Of The Week: How Can Winter Illnesses Be Prevented?
With flu and norovirus season ramping up and expected to last through May, facilities across the country are honing in on illness prevention.
Pro Bono Services Expand Opportunity For Boston Nonprofit
The Travis Roy Foundation moved into a 2,000 square foot office featuring accessible design, with the support of donated services from several area firms.
How To Offset Cellular Interference From Building Materials
Building materials like concrete, steel, and glass are often the primary culprit when buildings experience poor cellular signal. DAS offers one way to address the problem.
IWBI Releases Manufacturer’s Guide To WELL
This new guide helps manufacturers who produce sustainable building products and materials navigate the WELL Building Standard.
Naava Smart Green Walls
With technology imbued into these living walls, the air filtration capabilities of the plants are maximized.
Workplace Comfort: One Size Does Not Fit All
New research shows having personal control of your workspace, such as lighting and temperature, improves overall workplace productivity and engagement.
Business Cleanliness Matters To Consumers
Nine out of 10 consumers agree that they are more likely to have an overall negative opinion of an independent business if its public spaces are not clean.
Workplace Design Matters To Millennials
New study finds office design and aesthetics are playing a greater role in recruiting young talent.
Six Rules For Using Grey Water Properly
Many commercial facilities are reducing their water consumption by using greywater. Here are some rules and guidelines for using it safely and properly.
Transportation Industry Embraces Sustainability, Green Building Standards
USGBC's new report: LEED in Motion: Transportation, highlights facilities that incorporate LEED and other sustainability practices.
Sustainable Landscaping Project Earns Idaho’s First SITES Gold
HP Inc.’s Boise, ID property is the first corporate campus in the world to be certified using the SITES v2 rating system.
A Peek Into Employees’ Workplace Preferences
A recent workplace design survey commissioned by Capital One sought insight from 2,500 professionals across five U.S. metro areas.
Workplace Safety Can Give Small Businesses A Recruiting Edge
The safety of the work environment was among the top criteria employees consider when evaluating a new job offer, according to a new survey.
Zone Cabling For Smart Offices
This approach to a cabling infrastructure enables facility management to meet new and evolving occupant and organizational demands quickly.
Employees Value Workplace Restrooms
Nearly 90% of American workers think the condition of workplace restrooms indicates how much a company values its employees.
Friday Funny: The World’s Wildest Data Centers
A data center located in a former nuclear bunker is just one example of the world’s most innovative and unusual data centers.
Question Of The Week: Are Open Workspaces All They’re Cracked Up To Be?
Many companies are moving toward open workspaces, but a new survey shows employees think they are among the least productive and most stressful work environments.
Does Your Breakroom Need A Makeover?
Until August 29, businesses with at least 10 employees can enter to win a facelift for their breakrooms from Staples Business Advantage.
Work has changed. Ignition has responded. The sit that fits.
Introducing Ignition 2.0 - the chair that comfortably, flexibly, dynamically moves with you to change the world. No matter who you are, how you work, or where you work, Ignition seating from HON fits.
Future Of FBI Headquarters Released
With input from GSA, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the status of the ailing J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC.
Flooring Selection Positively Impacts Post-Occupancy Evaluation At Children’s Hospital
Download this free white paper from nora and learn how the project team at Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children used a post-occupancy evaluation to study the contributing factors and outcomes of the flooring selection on clinical efficiency.
IFF Is Fragrance Industry’s First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Facility
New Jersey operation is the first of its kind to earn GreenCircle Certified LLC, Zero Waste to Landfill facility status.
WELL Building Standard Surpasses 100 Million SF
IWBI celebrated the milestone by launching Build WELL, a new mobile app which contains the entire WELL Building Standard in a navigable mobile format.
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