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.
Autodesk released Autodesk LIVE, a new cloud-based visualization service. It quickly transforms a building information model (BIM) into an interactive, rendered, 3D environment that can be navigated in real-time. Amar Hanspal, Autodesk Senior Vice President, describes LIVE as “dynamic visualization” because it allows designers, collaborators and clients to move through digital models as they choose and it creates these immersive experiences without long lead times.
As technology plays an ever-growing part in our daily lives it is also becoming more prominent in the workspace; new tech-based products, systems and uses are regularly presented to modern workers and processes are constantly advancing. Meanwhile, commercial spaces have become more agile and the flexible office trend has topped the office furniture industry in recent years. Hence, the incorporation of technology within a workspace now often legitimises a business or brand, as well as creating a more flexible and collaborative environment for staff.
Our computers have rapidly shrunk from room-size behemoths to hulking desktops to the svelte laptops that now dominate modern offices. What haven't changed much are the tables and chairs that the computers (and we) sit on. A new integrated workspace from the Altwork company, appropriately named the Station, has been designed to replace both pieces of furniture while giving you more flexibility in how you interact with your computer. I was recently able to get a butts-on demo of the Station, and the only contortion I had to perform was wrapping my mind around its massive price tag.
The mobile game Pokémon Go has exploded after having been released just over a week ago. The game already has more downloads than other massive names on the market such as Candy Crush, Tinder, Lyft, and LinkedIn. In terms of utilization, the app is getting more daily activity on Android phones than Twitter and is a fraction of a percent behind Snap Chat. The game holds massive opportunities for retailers and malls while posing challenges to property owners.
Technology has turned the commercial real estate industry on its ear. Though many perceive it to be the harbinger of death—particularly where retail is concerned—no single change has had a greater impact on the use of and investment in commercial real estate than technology.
HOK says the corporate office will be designed as an experience center, with co-working and general office spaces becoming more human-centric to accommodate a variety of work styles.
Spending on workplace technology has doubled in the past five years as artificial intelligence is used to redefine how we connect in the workplace. That is the central claim of a new report from design firm Unispace based on interviews with CEOs and Heads of Real Estate at some 100 blue chip firms worldwide including KPMG, Cisco, Adidas, GE, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Regus, Deloitte, UBS, Chevron, CitiGroup, and Ashurst, Respondents were asked to assess how they expect to use office space in 2020. According to the report, respondents indicated that they will continue increasing technology spend, irrevocably changing the traditional office space as we know it. Over the last five years, the average company spent 10 percent of its workplace budgets on technology with 30 percent going on services, partitioning and furniture. The trend has now reversed with technology spend outstripping other spend as companies strive to improve efficiency, collaboration, creativity, engagement and recruitment.
Offices these days are buzzing. Literally. Alerts are coming through phones, computers, and watches; desks are embedded with charging docks and LED notification systems, and virtual reality is transforming how architects communicate with their clients.
A Brooklyn-based startup called Modern Meadow has raised $40 million to become a top source of leather for the world’s makers of fashion and accessories, luggage, sporting goods, upholstery and furniture. Rather than raising animals to slaughter them and take the skin off their backs in a physically and chemically intensive process, Modern Meadow “biofabricates” its leather in labs and foundries.
Today’s funding round, which is significantly high for a Series A outside of Silicon Valley and in Europe in particular, will be used by the startup to consolidate what it claims is its leading position as a provider of workplace management technology.
Haworth white papers: sophisticated sensors could contribute to a healthier and happier workforce by tracking the way offices are used and adjusting them automatically, according to new research by US furniture giant Haworth. Used properly, the technology could turn offices into places that employees choose to be in for their overall wellbeing, says Haworth's Enabling the Organic Workspace: Emerging Technologies that Focus on People, Not Just Space white paper.
A manufacturer of custom prefabricated elements to be built into offices and other work spaces, DIRTT Environmental Solutions is the latest corporation to adopt virtual reality for the enterprise, rather than entertainment.
The company unveiled their ICEreality software this week at an annual construction industry trade show, NeoCon 2016, in Chicago. (Yes, tech news had the audacity to break outside of Apple’s WWDC and the video game industry’s E3 this week.)
DIRTT wants to help architects, developers, facility managers and interior designers create eco-friendly work spaces that are stylish and fit their needs.
Outwitting hackers with sophisticated software makes for the stuff of spy novels. But in the real world, simple physical security measures also have a huge role to play to keep critical data in the right hands. That’s not to dismiss the need for some technical wizardry in the digital age. Cyber-attacks have increased in both frequency and intensity in recent years, with the average cost of a data breach up 23 percent since 2013.
On the Chicago Theatre stage, in front of more than 700 people from DIRTT's worldwide team of distribution partners and employees, DIRTT unveiled the first-ever demonstration of ICEreality™ -- mixed reality technology for design and construction.
Consistent with its focus on becoming a global leader in Corporate Real Estate (CRE) technology, JLL has entered into an agreement to acquire BRG, a recognized expert in workplace technology consulting, technology implementation, and space and move management services. The transaction is expected to close next month, subject to customary closing conditions.
Beco has created the world’s first battery-free, light-harvesting beacon that’s powered entirely by a space’s existing light fixtures. That’s pretty nifty on its own. But according to CEO Tom Zampini, the beacon is only “part of the solution”. The company has now launched a location analytics platform that will tell you how people are using your space by leveraging the beacons and your employees’ mobile devices.
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed a system for an office in Turin that instructs heating, lighting and cooling systems to follow occupants around the building like an "individually-tailored environmental bubble".
Carlo Ratti Associati's Office 3.0 will use a system of sensors to monitor employees as they move around the headquarters of the Agnelli Foundation cultural institution.
One of the first-world problems most plaguing the new corporate world is the time wasted trying to find and secure a meeting room. At least, that’s the premise Robin is based on.
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Over the years, mobile technology has turned out to be a staple for personal as well as business purposes. Owing to the convenience, speed and efficiency, mobile has become one of the go-to technologies for most. Corporate mobility has picked up momentum with the increased usage of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets by employees for their work-related activities. Such infiltration has also encouraged many companies to leverage the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) concept to mobilize their workforce. With the new innovations in technology, the requirements of employees have evolved massively. Various mobile applications and services have mushroomed to address these needs. As a result, the impact of mobile technology on the workplace has been huge.
