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determine the extent to which the increases in work performance were due to the general features of the building or to the speci ...

Conduct preliminary observations to develop behavioral categories. This step involves spending time in the existing environment ...

PART THREE PRACTICE 346 shows data from a study of a new green building in Holland, Michigan, the Herman Miller Green House.^8 T ...

CHAPTER 17 DESIGN RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY 347 BEHAVIORAL MAP DATA Analysis of behavioral data is frequently displayed on floor ...

mental and organizational factors that enhanced or inhibited progress toward goals. The data analysis compared perceived inhibit ...

ings and conversations, people who meet by chance should have the oppor- tunity to sit down and talk further, and others passing ...

measures using the Total Quality Metrics (TQM) data gathered by Herman Miller for its manufacturing plant. The study had hypothe ...

Notes 1 Allen, T. J.,Managing the Flow of Technology: Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technical Information within ...

CHAPTER 352  Global Practice Dr. FRANCIS DUFFY, RIBA Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of ...

D Design quickly follows money and money always follows power. Baroque architecture was the international language of the Counte ...

staff and has a fee income of over $150 million. At the bottom of the list are 17 firms that employ no more than 10 interior des ...

branch offices, standards that were vetted by designers of the caliber of Eliot Noyes and Ettore Sottsas, and maintained by elit ...

let alone sensitivity or concern. If this is true, as it seems to be in Silicon Val- ley, where no one has time any more to thin ...

decades in Scandinavia, Germany, and the Netherlands (but not, incidentally, for different reasons, in the UK, France, and Italy ...

Americans, perhaps without realizing it, tend to assume that uniform office design standards ought to prevail everywhere in the ...

mentioned above. The second is to throw large project management resources at the problem in an attempt to impose an external or ...

increasing dependence on attracting and retaining more and more empow- ered office workers becomes an increasingly strong impera ...

differences within nations, sectors, and organizations that are more interest- ing than similarities. Sectoral differences, e.g. ...

It will be hard, however, for corporate real estate to ignore a relatively new factor that is introducing a new dimension of div ...

Cultural Fluency and Design Sophistication What North American designers particularly need to realize is that they have become a ...