The impact of office design on business performance
This report investigates the existing literature that addresses the relationship between design of the workplace and business performance.
What role could virtual and physical environments play in the life of new economy organisations?
What is the future for physical space in new economy organisations? Will organisations require physical space or will work primarily be carried out virtually? Organisations and those who work in the area of work place design are being asked to make a leap of faith into a vague future.
The implications for higher education of the SANE research project
SANE is a two year EC-funded research programme considering new ways of accommodating work. This paper outlines major trends in the use of the physical estate in Higher Education.
Workplaces for Innovation and Discovery
Workplace Forum Silicon Valley was planned to deliberately juxtapose a set of workplaces that in very distinctive ways seek to push the boundaries in their support of innovation and discovery. What did we discover about these workplaces as we explored them together?
The New Office Building... Anticipating the Needs of the 21st Century Tenant
In recent years DEGW has observed dramatic changes in the nature of how and where work is done - within and outside the traditional office building as we know it.
Accommodating change: emerging real estate strategies
Today’s successful businesses reflect an ability to adapt to the changes in markets, technologies, and political expectations around them. The challenge is to create a new real estate model and procurement process that responds to and works in partnership with the needs of business.
Forty years of office design
In the last four decades office architecture has become more important and more volatile. Understanding what is happening to office architecture is a shortcut to understanding the trends that are shaping the future of the city and of every other building type.
The airport - throughway or destination
From being a transport appendage to the city, the airport has evolved to become a destination in its own right, a city quarter embracing a multitude of uses and functions, and with a diversified and complex economy of its own.
The new economy - changing the rules
Patterns of work and structures of organisations are evolving faster than the environment around them can be transformed to meet their needs. What are the forces driving this change, and what are the implications for the workplace of the future?
The sustainable workplace
Sustainability is one of those intangible terms that has been used to mean a whole host of different things to different people at different times. What are the key principles and processes of sustainability, and how can these be successfully applied to the workplace?
Laboratories and learning laboratories
How do university and corporate laboratories design and manage spaces for collaboration and knowledge sharing? Workplace Forum visited a range of sites in the Boston area to look at different approaches.
History of the New Office in Australia: A Study Tour of Innovative Workplaces in Sydney and Mebourne
The next generation of workplaces in Australia - current issues and future directions facing building users.
Differentiation in a buyers' market
The Dutch market is swimming in unused stock with 12% office vacancy. Has this trend shifted the power balance between occupiers, developers and investors?
Chicago - the changing city
Chicago provides a case study for how cities are addressing the implications of distributed working and attempting to bridge the gap between supply and demand for the future.
Town and Gown in the 21st Century: Ensuring (hybrid) campuses enhance the success of the city.
The changing nature of universities and the need to align academic, building and estate strategies to accommodate and encourage innovation and knowledge sharing with industry.
Expressing brand in place
How are organisations approaching the creation of 'branded space'?
Supporting the Distributed Workplace
This paper summarises the presentations given at the event that took place in February 2004 which examined the key elements of a successful distributed working strategy from the perspectives of design, strategy and technology.
Los Angeles Media Ecology: Physical to Virtual City
LA has been described as having four physical environments: the surf, foothills, valley and freeway. This paper explores the existence and possibility of a fifth and virtual ecology, that of Media; and the effect new technology and consequent mobility, has had in shaping LA’s office landscape.
The Transforming Government Workplace
As some of the largest landlords in the world, government organizations are leading the way towards change in the workplace. This paper explores public sector office spaces throughout Washington DC– discussions surrounded themes of understanding, achieving, and sustaining successful workplace chan
