Building Design + Construction - October 2019

36 |BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION | October 2019

time without the need for video storage, which

Kostura says is a “value add” from a privacy

protection standpoint.

WSP is working with a large technology fi rm

that has buildings all over the world to develop

smart space utilization that can accommodate

the company’s aggressive hiring. “It is asking

how, if it hired 1,000 people, it could move

people around,” explains Els. WSP designed a

multisensory system on a high-resolution grid

that Els says “pushes” data into an analyti-

cal environment. The client is now sharing this

information with its real estate team.

Ennead, with Bora Architects, designed the

University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight

Campus for Accelerating Scientifi c Impact, which

is under construction. Weinreich says that one

of the goals of this campus is the bring together

academia and business. So Ennead deployed a

tool developed by Buro Happold that creates a

virtual model of the space, and populates the

model with avatars that behave according to

certain rules and patterns to simulate trails of

movement and to identify where casual interac-

tions might happen. Ennead is now beta testing

a more advanced tool that incorporates machine

learning and sensors.

Workplace. Seattle Children’s Hospital has

been relocating its administrative staff to three

fl oors of a downtown high rise, about fi ve miles

from the hospital’s main campus. As a prelude,

Seattle Children’s partnered with ZGF to assess

AEC TECH^ |

For its design of the Phil
and Penny Knight Campus
for Accelerating Scientifi c
Impact at the University of
Oregon, Ennead Architects
deployed an analytical tool
created by the engineer-
ing fi rm Buro Happold to
create virtual models with
avatars included to simulate
trails of movement, with the
intention of predicting where
casual interactions within the
building might occur.

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