Design Language over the years

Reducing Waste Through Intelligent Building Product Design This Wednesday, at the SyracuseCoE Opportunity Exchange at Healthy Buildings 2009, Sharad Mathur of Inscape Corporation noted that population is an increasingly growing problem. For example, today’s modern individuals consume fifty kilograms of meat a year, when they used to consume five kilograms of meat a year, and astronauts can now view two monuments from space: the Great Wall of China, and the landfill in New York City. Society now easily replaces and discards items that are only a few years old, posing a threat for our future. This was the premise of Mathur’s presentation, “Intelligent Building Product Design” – that we are very wasteful. As vice president of Inscape Corporation, he believes that simply changing cabinet doors, repainting, changing handles, and remodeling office space is much wiser that completely scrapping the old with the new. Mathur and Inscape Corporation advocate that remodeling old products is much ...

The New Planning Paradigm Over the last few decades there has been constant rethinking and changes in the way offices are designed. The changes have been quite significantly affected by changing demographics, real estate trends, technology and the shrinking globe. Today, we are presenting the latest trends in this ever changing office design concept as seen through our eyes. Today’s office looks different than ever before as it is a blend of the old and familiar with the new and ever changing. Today more than ever the need for flexible and chameleon office interior components are essential to prevent rapidly dated spaces. The need includes flexible furniture solutions which include space division, storage and worksurfaces that can easily morph aesthetically and functionally to cater to the new planning paradigms emerging continuously. The only constant we live with is change, change and more change. Diverse Workforce The North American workforce in the 60’s and 70’s was primarily White...