196 research outputs found
PROGETTO UFFICIO. Strategia e processi per l’evoluzione degli spazi aziendali
No full textLe aziende si stanno oggi ponendo domande cruciali sui propri ambienti di lavoro. Quanto spazio serve? Come deve essere organizzato perché i dipendenti possano lavorare al meglio? Quali sono i benchmark di riferimento per progettare l'ufficio del futuro? Per riflettere su questi interrogativi, il volume propone di esaminare in maniera critica lo stato dell'arte dell'ufficio di oggi, sulla base del quale prenderà necessariamente forma l'ufficio di domani. A partire da un inquadramento dei macro-trend che influenzeranno le strategie di corporate real estate e workplace nei prossimi anni, il libro fornisce un quadro completo degli elementi spaziali e delle attività che l'ufficio può ospitare, ne esamina le unità spaziali fondamentali, descritte per tipologia e nomenclatura, e traccia l'evoluzione di una serie di benchmark nel tempo
The evolution of workplaces and the meaning of work from the industrial revolution to pandemic times. A critical perspective
No full textWHAT’S NEW FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING PEOPLE’S USE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT?
No full textSCOPE:
Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and produce 70% of global CO2 emissions, mainly due to construction activities and buildings’ functioning. Urbanization is one of the great challenges of this century, therefore the development of sustainable strategies to manage (and reduce) energy and natural resources demand in buildings is urgent. The way people use buildings plays a central role. Building performances are impacted by how people utilize spaces, maintain them, and adapt them to their changing needs. Today ranges of technological tools make it relatively easy to understand how users’ behaviours occur into buildings and cities, and to inform people’s interactions with the built environment. However, only few studies investigate users’ behaviours in buildings, and consider them in environmental models. Thus, it is interesting to understand how sensors and digital tools can help to reduce buildings’ impact by informing, on one hand, the end-users and, on the other, developers, building owners, and facility managers. With the aim to fill this gap, the objectives of this study are to: a) Map available tools, methods and data, including the scale of their application; b) Detect the extent to which tools, methods, and data integrate with one another, and evaluate new information that can be obtained by matching them; and c) Figure out the involved actors: who plays a role in data collection and analysis? Who produces data?
METHODS:
Through a literature review, the paper compares existing tools and methods for data gathering on space utilization and user behaviour, in particular: a) The most diffused technological/digital tools for space utilization analysis; and b) The most diffused approaches/methods for energy and resource consumption analysis (i.e. Life Cycle Assessment, Ecological Footprint, and Post Occupancy Evaluation). These are analysed by: the data they rely on, their scale-up potential (from different types of buildings, to cities and territories), the actors involved in their application, and the beneficiary of the information produced.
RESULTS AND PROVISIONAL CONCLUSIONS:
Results will show the extent to which different data and methods can be matched to obtain novel insights. It will be discussed how this match can advance extant models to manage users’ behaviours toward reducing energy consumption. The article drafts possible protocols of data collection and analysis that can be applied at different scales, and that will involve different stakeholders. This study has the potential to encourage the digitalization of built environment products and processes, which can support real estate management strategies and responsible users’ behaviours. Potentially, these could be expanded to the urban scale, through urban planning and crowd management models
Researching Physical and Virtual Workplaces: Methodological Approaches for Workplace Research
No full textThis book explores a wide range of methodological approaches to examining various forms of workplace physical environments. It focuses on pressing questions regarding the relationship between the spatial component of the workplace, including its progressive hybridisation with other physical and virtual places, and its users, be they public organisations, private companies, or start-up businesses and solopreneurs.
International contributors address a range of methods that are applicable both in research and practice to confront the most cutting-edge workplace-related issues. The assumption is that work has been changing, thanks to the virtualisation of many activities, and that homeworking and hybrid working modes are expected to increase significantly after Covid-19. Thus, spaces hosting work need to adapt accordingly. Researchers and practitioners have been struggling to determine how much space will be needed by companies, what kind of space will better host different work activities, which workers are more suited for working from home, and which instead are more productive if they have an office-based working arrangement. The necessary evolution of the office should follow evidence-based decisions on the abovementioned matters, which are only possible through rigorous investigations. This volume aims to support these investigations, which call for inventive applications of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. By doing so the book will encourage solid practices and thorough research agendas in workplace design, management, and use.
Contributions come from different disciplines, including facilities management, real estate management, psychology, design, architecture, sociology, and organisation studies. Chapters highlight the importance of appropriate methodologies, borrowed from different fields, in addressing contemporary questions and developments in workplaces. By analysing the challenges and opportunities for conducting rigorous research in different workplace settings, this book will be critical reading for both academics and students, as well as for decision-makers and professionals who deal with workplace design and management
Decision-Making Theory. How a multiple perspective approach can generate workplace strategies
No full textFlexible Working Arrangements and New Proximity Dynamics
No full textTechnological developments, globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated changes in the way people perform their work from a spatial and temporal point of view, while introducing new and more flexible working arrange-ments which affect the usual idea of proximity. These forms of work can be performed at the first place (home), second place (office), and third place (e.g., collaborative and coworking spaces). This chapter explains flexible working arrangement typologies (remote working, hybrid working and digital nomadism) that have become more and more common in the past few years. Their effects are reviewed as reported in the literature at micro, meso, and macro levels. Despite a generally positive narra-tive associated with the broad adoption of such flexible arrangements, they bring also negative impacts on individuals, organizations and territories. Eventually, the chapter discusses whether and how near-working strategies might mitigate the dangers and enhance the opportunities associated with the new proximity dynamics made possible by flexible working arrangements
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