ABSTRACT

The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of space and time practised by these new kinds of office work. Prepared by the team who wrote The Responsible Workplace in 1992, this book is based on a major research project undertaken by DEGW and the BRE. It identifies the key organizational changes, patterns of work, work settings and types of space layouts and it will help specifiers and users of environmental systems understand what products will be suitable for innovative ways of office working.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part 1|9 pages

Part 1: Overview

chapter 1|1 pages

Objectives

chapter 2|2 pages

Methods of research

chapter 3|5 pages

Conclusions

part 2|33 pages

Part 2: A new research approach

chapter 4|4 pages

The research model

Affinities between the work patterns, the building types and the environmental systems

chapter 5|8 pages

The work pattern model

chapter 6|8 pages

The building type model

chapter 7|5 pages

The environmental system model

chapter 8|7 pages

The cost model

part 3|25 pages

Part 3: Affinities between work patterns, building types and environmental systems

part 4|21 pages

Part 4: Case studies

chapter 14|20 pages

Organisations in Europe and the USA

chapter 15|6 pages

Case studies of technologies

part 5|1 pages

Part 5: Product directions and design implications

chapter 19|5 pages

Implications for lighting

chapter 21|11 pages

The impact of software