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.
According to a new report from technology research organisation Gartner, 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up around a third (30 percent) from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. The study claims that in 2016, 5.5 million new things will become connected each day. Gartner estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will support total services spending globally of around US$235 billion in 2016, up nearly a quarter (22 percent) from 2015.
THE OFFICES OF SLACK, in the tech-centric SoMa district of San Francisco, feature endless swaths of bare wall-to-wall carpet awaiting the installation of desks and chairs. Wires hang loosely from ceilings, eager to attach themselves to future computer workstations. Blank whiteboards idle at the edges of soon-to-be-bustling rooms. These are anticipatory spaces—the headquarters of a company poised to explode with new hires.
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Configura, maker of CET Designer software, has announced the winners of the 8th annual Best of CET Designer Awards, a competition honoring best uses of the space-planning software used throughout the world by commercial interior designers, salespeople and facility planners. A record number of submissions were received this year, including 60 submissions in the Rendering category.
A record number of attendees, nearly 300 people from the Americas and Europe – including contract furniture manufacturers, dealers, interior designers and IT professionals – participated in Configura's two-day conference held at the Renaissance SeaWorld at Orlando.
One of my colleagues recently shared a New York Times blog post by Strauss Zelnick, a chief executive and chairman at Take-Two Interactive Software, the makers of the popular Grand Theft Auto video games. In the post, Zelnick is quoted saying he is “interested and cautious” about the potential of virtual reality, one of the oldest wearable technologies. The post went on to discuss how virtual reality still holds great potential for the entertainment industry, even though no one is really sure what the offering might look like.
One of the least fun freelance jobs I ever did was helping an interior designer measure out a recently-shuttered dot-com office. The space was massive, and while the designer had the original blueprints, the real deal didn't quite jive; there were surprise soffets, new partition walls and of course nothing was square. It took a day and a half using our tape measures and a laser and we still hadn't gotten it quite right.
Apple has quietly launched an indoor positioning iOS app that lets building owners create interior maps of their structures using only an iPhone. The debut of the Indoor Survey App follows the introduction, a year ago, of Apple Maps Connect, which allows the owners of publicly accessible venues to submit their indoor digital mapping information to Apple to create floorplans. The latest app aims to make that functionality available more broadly.
Linköping, Sweden-based Configura, which operates an office in Grand Rapids, said this week that it has established a collaboration agreement with Herman Miller in Zeeland to develop a CET Designer Extension platform for the furniture maker to digitally “build out” its global portfolio.
