3rd Edition

Creating the Productive Workplace Places to Work Creatively

Edited By Derek Clements-Croome, Derek Clements-Croome Copyright 2018
    466 Pages 152 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    466 Pages 152 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a milieu which helps people to be healthier and have the energy to concentrate while being free to be creative. The health and well-being agenda pervades society in many different ways but we spend much of our lives in buildings, so they have an important role to play within this total picture. This demands us to embrace change and think beyond the conventional wisdom while retaining our respect for it. Creating the Productive Workplace shows how we need to balance the needs of people and the ever-increasing enabling technologies but also to take advantage of the healing powers of Nature and let them be part of environmental design. This book aims to lead to more human-centred ways of designing the built environment with deeper meaning and achieve healthier and more creative, as well as more productive places to work.

    Foreword  Preface  Part 1: Health, Well-Being and Productivity Landscape  1. Effects of the Built Environment on Health and Wellbeing Derek Clements-Croome  2. The Business Case for Sustainable Healthy Buildings Derek Clements-Croome  3. The Multi-Sensory Experience in Buildings Briony Turner, Derek Clements-Croome, and Kay Pallaris  4. Pleasure and Joy, and their Role in Human Life Michel Cabanac  5. User-Centred Workspace Design: Applications of environmental psychology to space for work Jacqueline Vischer  6. Change Makers: rethinking the productive workplace through an art and design lens Jeremy Myerson  Part 2: Research Evidence  7. Lessons from Schools for Productive Office Environments: the SIN model Peter Barrett  8. Effects of Indoor Air Quality on Decision Making Usha Satish and Piers MacNaughton  9. Workplace Productivity: Fatigue and Satisfaction Shin-ichi Tanabe and Naoe Nishihara  10. Proving the Productivity Benefits of Well-Designed Offices Nigel Oseland  11. Optimising Wellbeing and Productivity through an Ergonomics Based Approach Stephen Bowden  12. Lighting For Productive Workplaces Jennifer Veitch  13. Intelligent workplaces Vivian Loftness et al  14. Thermal and IAQ Effects on School and Office Work Pawel Wargocki and David Wyon  15. Measuring the IEQ Contribution to Productivity and Wellbeing Vyt Garnys, Travis Hale and Adam Garnys  Part 3: Experiential Evidence from Surveys and Building Case Studies  16. A Visual Language of the Workplace Peter Bacevice, Hannah Beveridge and Liz Burow  17. The People-Building Interface: It’s a Two Way Street Judith Heerwagen, Kevin Kampschroer, Bryan Steverson and Brian Gilligan  18. Workplace: A Tool for Investment Kevin Reader  19. Productivity in Buildings: the Killer Variables - twenty years on Adrian Leaman and Bill Bordass  20. Enjoy Work: A Case Study on Chiswick Park Jason Margrave, Ron German and Kay Chaston  21. The Arup Experience of Workplace Design Ann-Marie Aguilar, Vicki Lockhart, Mallory Taub and Michael Stych  22. Achieving Holistic Sustainability: considering wellness alongside resource use in buildings Jennifer McArthur  23. Making the Economic Case for Good Design of Workplaces Sarah Daly  24. Building Performance: the Value Management Approach  Part 4: Future Horizons  25. Stranger Than We Can Imagine: the future of work and place in the 21st Century Mark Eltringham  26. How to Prevent Todays Ergonomic Office Problems in the Future Veerle Hermans  27. Future Landscapes Despina Katsikakis  28. Coda Derek Clements-Croome

    Biography

    Derek Clements-Croome is Professor Emeritus in architectural engineering in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Reading, UK, and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He worked in the building design and contracting industry for several years before entering university life. He has founded and directed courses including a BSc in building environmental engineering at Loughborough University in 1970 and an inter-disciplinary EPSRC-sponsored MSc in Intelligent Buildings at Reading University in 1996. He has also worked in architecture and building engineering at the University of Bath, UK (1978-1988).

    He now offers strategic advice to clients, designers and facilities managers on attaining and managing healthy and sustainable environments in buildings of all types. He researches, writes and lectures on these issues for companies, universities and wider audiences nationally and internationally in China, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Poland and Finland particularly. Some of his books have been published in Chinese and Russian. He edits and founded the Intelligent Buildings International journal first published by Taylor and Francis in 2009.

    Derek is a Commissioner on air quality and biodiversity for the boroughs of Hammersmith-Fulham and for the Zero-Fifty Commission for Haringey. He is also Building Environmental Expert for the CABE arm of the Design Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and also the BRE Academy.

    He was a member of the UK Green Building Council team that wrote the report Health and Wellbeing in Homes July 2016 and the World Green Building Council Report 2014 on Health Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices.

    'A growing body of research demonstrates that our work environments can have a profound impact on our health, wellness, and productivity. Creating the Productive Workplace comes at an important moment as employers are increasingly recognizing that healthy offices not only help attract top talent and provide benefits to employees, but also create a valuable return on investment.' - Paul Scialla, Founder of the International WELL Building Institute

    'Without productivity growth economies are reliant on employment growth. But as societies age this may disappoint. Productivity improvements can be achieved through innovation and as we transition further to a service economy the office workplace is a perfect place to find gains. Research into this field is advancing all the time and this book provides an excellent reference into how and why workplaces can boost the productivity of their inhabitants.' - Bill Page, Chair of British Council of Offices Research Committee and Research Manager, Business Space, LGIM Real Assets