by Chris | Oct 20, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Creative Places, Design & construction, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Most of us have been there, frantically typing searches into Google and getting more and more frustrated when the answer fails to appear. From time immemorial humans have been on a quest for knowledge, libraries have been filled, minutiae recorded and more recently...
by Chris | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, Design & construction, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places
My recent weekend in Christchurch proved to me that life goes on regardless of the earthquake devastation suffered by the city. It did seem very unfair to me, however, for Mother Nature to wreck such havoc on such a beautiful place. Since the life shattering events of...
by Chris | Jun 17, 2014 | Articles, BBC Estate story, BBC Television Centre, Design & construction
Walking around a building site has always fascinated me and over the years I have seen quite a few of them! But actually living as part of the day to day construction effort brings even more insight into what is a complex and often misunderstood process. One of my...
by Chris | May 21, 2014 | Articles, Creative Places, Design & construction, Future of Work, Place Making, sustainability, Workplace Strategy
As part of a recent fact finding trip to Dubai, I had the opportunity to visit the world’s tallest building – Burj Khalifa.. I wanted to build my understanding of place making in this part of the world. Looking out over this city from the 152nd...
by Chris | May 12, 2014 | Articles, Design & construction, FM futures, Future of Work, Smart Working, Uncategorized, Workplace Strategy
Enough is enough I said to myself on 24th October last year coming away from the Workplace Trends conference. We live in a world which is full of change, uncertainty and complexity; as people involved in workplaces we continue to debate rather than take action. Frank...
by Chris | Mar 6, 2014 | Articles, Design & construction, sustainability, Workplace Strategy
Yesterday, I contributed to a debate hosted byEcobuild 2014 on the topic of – “Is back to basics the office of the future?” The panel consisted of: a developer, Derwent; an architect, AHMM and an academic,Royal College of Art. I had the privilege of joining this...
