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Office Environment Series: Image
Creating Your Image The first post in this series covered how to create a sense of well-being in your office. Well-being is in some ways invisible, but image is all about what is visible. You want your image to portray your company’s success as well as the value you...
Office Environment Series: Well Being
How does your office impact your employees and guests? First Impressions Our offices are physical reflections of our companies and play a large role in how our employees and clients think about us. Most companies want their offices to provide a sense of well...
How Design Can Enhance Crime Prevention Part II
Crime Prevention through Design - Inside the Building In Part I, we learned that environmental design is a design approach that considers all elements of the environment in which a building exists. That includes paths of travel to and from the building, secure access...
How Design Can Enhance Crime Prevention Part I
Crime Prevention through Design This focus on crime prevention for a building is called environmental design. In this instance, environmental design is a design approach that considers all elements of the environment in which a building exists. That includes paths of...
How Much Will My Project Cost?
Overview of Project Costs So, how much will my project cost? I get asked this a lot when I talk with people about new projects they are interested in starting. This is usually after they have briefly described their idea to me, so their question lacks some vital...
Creating a High Performance Workplace: In-Person, Remote, or Hybrid
Work Models and Finding What “Works” Best This topic is a part of many of my conversations these days. I have friends and colleagues working via in-person, remote and hybrid models. There are even some that are transitioning to fully in-person from being fully remote...
Fitwel: A Building Industry Response to Viruses
The Origins of Fitwel Our local and global communities continue to battle with the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying moments of loss but also discovery. We have discovered many new ways of keeping ourselves and each other safe and healthy and certain actions that...
Designing for Movement
Designing for Movement in Interior Environments A major theme of my work and the blog posts on The Thread is that our interior environments play a large role in our overall health as humans. We spend a majority of our time indoors. Researchers are continually looking...
Living Building Challenge: Raising Standards for Sustainable Building
Standards for Sustainable Building I decided to return to a previous series of blog posts that covered sustainable building certifications to explore the Living Building Challenge (LBC). It has and continues to set standards in the building industry. We have...
Is Corporate Transparency the New Norm?
Transparency in the Corporate World Have you ever wondered what goes on in the corporations providing products and services to consumers on a local and global level? Many of us haven’t, but lately, corporations have been called to practice transparency with their...
Product Transparency: A Look into Manufacturer Responsibility in the Building Industry
What is Product Transparency? There are many ways to define product transparency. For the purposes of this post, we are exploring the ways that manufacturers can utilize transparency via product sustainability certifications. Manufacturers of building products have a...
Indoor airPLUS: Improving Residential Indoor Air Quality
Introduction Have you ever wondered if the air inside your home is as healthy as it could be? Many factors influence indoor air quality in our homes including smoking, cleaning habits, and air and moisture leaks. We spend a majority of our lives indoors, and the US’s...
Energy Star Struck
Introduction to Energy Star I wanted to get into Energy Star certification, since it is one of the most well known. You have probably seen the blue Energy Star label on your computer or kitchen appliances maybe without giving it a second thought. This exploration of...
Hero to Zero: An Exploration of Zero Energy Certification
Overview There are many ways to conserve and use energy when it comes to buildings and building systems. A lot of buildings take measures that increase their energy efficiency. Recently, a building certification has taken energy performance to a new level. Let’s...
Overview of Green Globes
Navigating Green Globes Green Globes is a contender in the sustainability certification arena. It is one of the most popular green building rating systems alongside LEED. (Check out my post on LEED for more.) Green Globes offers a holistic approach to new, existing,...
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