Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
Ron Weiner, CEO of office furniture company iMovr, has expressed skepticism about the ability for most office furniture finishes to stand up to the abrasive cleaning products that are often used in increasingly prevalent electrostatic misting and fogging services.
Where antimicrobial metals do work, they can take minutes or hours, which doesn't do much in a situation where the surfaces are being constantly touched by different people.
Tech, catering and design companies are rushing to sell employers on fever scanners, box lunches and office floor-planning apps for social distancing. But it’s too soon to tell if they will work.
Earlier this spring, Tangram, a curator of interior solutions for workspaces based in Southern California, made a quick pivot to sanitation, announcing a three-tiered, 24/7, nationwide electrostatic mist emergency workplace cleaning service, administered by professional disinfecting crews in full hazmat suits.
For office owners and property managers, now’s the time to think further ahead: what support, skills and services will these occupiers need from us when they do return?
More than 1,000 respondents reveal that employee health and wellness is top-of-mind as facilities continue to explore flexible workspace.
The report suggests that there is a shift in occupier priorities from cutting costs, to finding a provider who can add value through innovation, sustainability and diversity initiatives, and priorities.
Digital transformation swept through the world, and facilities management evolved to reflect the growing capabilities through technology.
New digital platforms are coming to the fore in facilities management – and they’re set to shake up traditional ways of running a building.
The program focused on shining examples, offering the design community a different way of looking at the delivery of an employee-centric workspace.
FacilitySource started out as a software company in 2005, but after Warburg Pincus bought it, the company began managing service providers for landlords, particularly in the retail sector.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), global labor productivity per employee has failed to markedly rise since the global downturn, despite the media storm that often hails the workplace experience as being the missing piece of the “productivity puzzle.”
The facilities management profession (or discipline, whatever) has spent the entirety of its thirty-or-so year existence immersed in a permanent existential crisis.
This year’s report utlines that FY17 was a time of global change, the continued elevation of FM and strategic realignment for IFMA.
Kylie Roth, Knoll Senior Director of Workplace Research, presents the company's latest planning approach, Immersive Planning.
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has the potential to deliver significant benefits to the facilities management industry, according to the results of a new survey published by The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM). The FM Awareness of Building Information Modelling survey, developed in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, aims to establish a benchmark of the current perceptions of the impact of BIM on the FM sector and the benefits and challenges it presents.
If you’ve ever wearied of the endless debate about a precise definition of facilities management, and thought the squabbling often seemed like the conflict over the right end to open an egg that led to war in Gulliver’s Travels, then salvation might be here with the news that the British Institute of Facilities Management has formally adopted the definition of facilities management set out in new ISO standards published earlier this year.
Companies should aim to create a sense of ‘brand loyalty’ among their employees in the same way that consumer businesses do with their customers, according the findings of a new study by international support services and construction group, Interserve.
Every building has to meet several basic requirements such as security, fire-life-safety, ventilation, lighting, health and comfort. The systems required to provide these building control services are collectively known as building automation systems (BAS). The biggest challenge facing the BAS industry is the myriad of protocols that exist within the industry. The result is a world in which systems that perform similar functions cannot communicate with each other.
A new white paper from ’boutique’ facilities management firm Anabas. It claims that the proliferation of diverse office environments and agile working means that facilities managers must develop a greater insight into the behavior of people to help them deliver. The report, What Type of Office Worker Are you?, claims that it ‘helps to rediscover what it means to be human in the workplace and takes us back to the beginning by focusing on understanding individual behaviors, work styles and how they influence interaction within the workplace itself.
