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January 2010
Green Office 2015
 | | |  | | Green Office 2015 is a multi-functional building that will perform to satisfaction for decades, functioning not only as an office building, but also as a hotel or a parking garage. It will be developed in accordance with the “open building principle,” meaning that the user determines the building’s layout and content. Read the full article » | | Featured Sponsor: |  | Daylighting Controls | | Daylighting delivers many benefits to buildings. What makes it a truly green strategy, however, is lighting controls that automatically reduce lighting in response to daylight. But daylight harvesting control is as much an art as a science. Learn more about it in a free online course produced by the Lighting Controls Association as part of its Education Express program here: | | For more information, visit: www.aboutlightingcontrols.org. | | RELATED STORIES |  | |  | New Ruralism Meets New Urbanism
Concepts for Smart Growth and New Urbanism have been shared and debated for some time among architecture professionals. But New Ruralism has been gaining recent momentum. There’s been a push to encourage architects to incorporate farmland into their design plans.
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|  | The Future of Work
Anticipating change is the art of looking over horizons and making educated guesses. For the designer or architect, it means spotting trends and understanding shifting dynamics. In designing for the office environment, it means recognizing how the very nature of work continues to change.
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| The Enduring Workplace: Sustaining Change
When you consider the speed of technological advancements, corporate organizational transformations, and facility modifications, a similar scenario occurs regarding change in most office settings. Technology appreciably changes every 18 months, while most major corporations undergo substantive business change every 3 years. The work environment fundamentally changes only once every 10 years, typically coinciding with a lease expiry. And an entire new generation enters the workforce every 15 to 20 years.
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