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The rise of co-working and co-living spaces in New York City.
We recently blogged about one of our most exciting design projects, a co-working space called Huckletree in the trendy Farringdon area of London. In New York it seems that a similar concept of communal work space has been multiplying faster than rabbits in spring...
Moving up – RICS Building Surveying Journal
Sustainability: a driver for success – Technical Sustainability
Solving problems – RICS Building Surveying Journal
‘a better place’
‘a better place’ is a wellbeing survey and value metrics study, providing clarity on how to harmonise spaces with peoples’ needs, to support their wellbeing and enable highest productivity and value returns. The study comprises of four parts, each of which can be adopted on its own and enhance a project’s wellbeing impact.
New scheme: SKA HE at public consultation
Following a lengthy, eventful, but solid research and development stage for the new SKA scheme for Higher Education spaces and laboratories, it is now available as a draft to review for comments.
User insights: a room with a view at the NHS…
As designers, we can benefit from using our own user-experience in everyday life to add insight in spaces we design for others. One of the biggest tools we have is ‘empathy’ and this tool like any other gets sharpened and grows the more experiences we are immersed in.
How the colours you choose affect how people perform
A tool that has been harnessed by marketing teams for decades and nature for, well, a very long time, is the well established association different colours have with certain psychological reactions. Yet in commercial, education and healthcare facilities, the impact that interior design has on the user is often overlooked and colour use is very much part of this.
Our Conference of Parties (COP21) Pledge
The UK Green Building Council is catalysing private sector action to help ensure a positive outcome from COP21 (http://www.cop21paris.org/) and as members we have made our pledge
“Product Passports” pitched at Disruptive Innovation Festival
A recent open-mic session hosted during the Disruptive Innovation Festival discussed the ins and outs of creating a Product Passport scheme for manufactured goods. Speakers included Stephane Arditi, Policy Manager for the European Environmental Bureau, and Carston Wacholz, Resource use and EU Product Policy Officer at the EEB.