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.
When it comes to selecting flooring for your commercial space, there are various options to choose from, and they all have their respective merits and drawbacks. It can be difficult to determine which type of flooring best suits your organization's specific needs. To make the right decision, you need to look beyond the aesthetics of each flooring type and consider the day-to-day practicalities first.
"Although orders and revenue were down compared with the prior year period, we experienced positive trends since the U.S. presidential election in November, and the positive order trend has continued for the first seven weeks of the new year.
Lately, there’s been a lot of momentum around devising sustainable alternatives for things that we tend to take for granted. A Swedish grocery chain is swapping out plastic fruit labels for laser marks; a brewery switched out its plastic six-pack rings for edible versions to protect ocean wildlife.
But until now, no one has made a dent in the problem of household carpeting. Second only to diapers when it comes to taking up landfill space, around 3.5 billion pounds of carpet are tossed each year in the U.S. Because carpets are made up of such a complex array of chemicals, like latex and PVC, they’re next to impossible to recycle.
The costs of absent employees are well known, but it’s estimated that the hidden costs of unfocused and unproductive employees are twice as much.
The physical office environment is an ideal starting point for helping employees feel motivated and happy at work. Today we're sharing how flooring can influence your workplace, and how the right choice can exponentially amplify your employees' productivity.
Today, Interface, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet, announced it is entering the hard surface flooring category to complement its broad range of modular carpet tiles. This category expansion will help the company better serve architects and designers, end-user customers, and flooring dealers with a fully integrated collection of hard and soft tiles that seamlessly fit together in Interface's modular design system.
Some carpet manufacturers offer both residential and commercial grade carpet. Today I'm reviewing how each type of carpet is specifically designed and constructed to meet the unique needs of its environment and identifying the five main differences between commercial and residential carpet.
Designing a sit-to-stand office is very different than designing a traditional workplace. With additional challenges to address, from comfort to privacy, your office design needs to make sit-to-stand working easy and comfortable for your clients and their employees.
Today I’m sharing seven design tips to create the ultimate sit-to-stand office.
Before you start work on your next commercial project, it’s important to understand the flooring you specify will impact your client’s experience of using their redesigned space, every single day.
Today, I’m identifying some of the most common problems your clients may want to address by redesigning their commercial space, and sharing the best types of flooring to specify to solve these problems for your clients.
We are proud to announce the release of the Milliken floor covering division’s second annual sustainability report. As an extension of our commitment to transparent practices and products that ‘do good’ in the world – the report gives insight into our global operations, product offering, and overall impact on the environment. Our hope is that it will inspire you to create more sustainable spaces.
more“Environmental stewardship is an ever-evolving journey, and we have continued to improve our actions with meaningful results for more than 150 years,” shared Jim McCallum, president of the global Milliken floor covering division. “We believe this requires a holistic approach – with continued assessments to question the status quo. This very nature of comprehensive inquisitiveness is what defines Milliken.”
In the report, our team addressed a wide range of sustainability issues that are pertinent to the architecture and design industry. Relevant topics include chemical and human health impacts, recycled content and recyclability, and resource consumption, among others.
"For the first time in the past year and a half, our quarterly orders were positive versus the prior year period. Importantly, we also saw increasing order strength over the quarter from July through September. Net sales in the first half of the year were down nearly 6%, and the third quarter saw a slight improvement with sales down only 2.5%. With our order trends, we expect to deliver positive sales growth in the fourth quarter."
Green building today encompasses a myriad of product certifications, building standards and manufacturing processes. Transparency tools range in focus, from environmental impacts to potential risks to human health – and it is no surprise either. People spend more than 90% of their time inside, where the EPA estimates that pollutants are between two and five times higher than those outdoors.
Building material transparency is no longer a bonus when comparing finishes for commercial interior environments such as flooring – it is mandatory. This movement is something that Philip Ivey, sustainability leader for Milliken, understands at its essence.
Every day facility managers face new challenges in providing beautiful interior environments that promote well-being. We know that flooring is one aspect to achieve their goal, and we deeply understand the critical role it plays in creating world-class buildings.
We're featuring new Milliken flooring and adhesives that uniquely address common, yet prohibitive challenges through proprietary Milliken technologies at IFMA's World Workplace 2016, booth 1117.
I may have gotten a bit carried away. Since I can remember, designing decor has been my pipe dream. My background in graphic design and branding has led me down a different path, but more recently they’ve been finding ways to intersect. This makes me jazzed. Naturally, I was pretty pumped when FLOR reached out to see if I was interested in flexing some creative muscles by creating three totally custom pieces created from their selection. They made the process super easy. So easy, it was hard to stop designing!
Interface, Inc. will debut a new third-party certification from GreenCircle Certified, LLC and spotlight its Climate Take Back™ mission at the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo taking place Oct. 5-6 in Los Angeles.
Interface Inc. (Nasdaq: TILE) is relocating its headquarters from Vinings to Midtown, where it will take the entire 40,000-square-foot building on West Peachtree Street near the Arts Center MARTA station.
Interface, a large maker of modular carpet, is partnering with architecture firm Perkins+Will to design the office space. Interface would move into the new Midtown headquarters by mid-2018.
“Moving our global headquarters to Midtown Atlanta allows us to present our design-focused brand, and to demonstrate our commitment to create innovative workplaces that best support our employees’ needs,” said Jay Gould, president and chief operating officer of Interface. “This new space will help our team work together more collaboratively in a creative and nature-inspired space, as well as provide easier access to the heart of the city and bring the vibrancy of Interface to the city.”
When it comes to choosing commercial carpet tiles, you have a whole range of options to choose from: different patterns, fiber types and face weights. As well as having to decide on the look you want for your flooring, there are several different carpet tile backing options, too.
Sales in the Company's core U.S. modular carpet business were up 1% in the quarter, but this was more than offset by a decline in its InterfaceServices business due to large retail projects that were delayed until the second half of the year, coupled with soft business conditions in Canada and Brazil as a result of the weakened oil and gas sector.
The relationship between noise levels and academic performance is well documented – so much so that it’s recognized by LEED building certifications. Schools can earn points for classrooms with sound levels below 40dB, which are then used to qualify the school for different levels of certification, and in some instances, financial grants.
But in many classrooms, sound levels average 65dB (Oberdorster and Tiesler, 2005), which can make a big difference to students’ engagement with their learning, and in turn their academic performance. So today I’m looking at 4 ways you can improve classroom acoustics.
Interface, Inc. announced that Matt Miller, Interface’s Chief Strategy Officer, has been appointed President, Interface Americas, effective June 1st. Miller assumes leadership of the company’s entire value chain in the U.S.A., Canada, Latin America and South America.
Choosing flooring for your new office complex is a significant investment. The choices you make will impact the day-to-day running of your organization for years to come, and affect everything from your maintenance budgets to employee well-being. To help you make the best decisions for your organization, today I'm looking at the five most important things you need to consider when buying flooring.
