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An American Academy of Pediatrics Committee and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have come out with updated design guidelines to prevent children from falling out of windows.
It is necessary to consider the safety and security of facility users under abnormal, as well as normal, conditions and for design or management staff to examine their facility plans for both potential trouble spots and characteristics that facilitate help when problems do arise.
Moleski provides information useful for determining the size of a space.
Marilyn Zelinsky provides a primer, dictionary, and case-history book on what has been variously called “new officing,” “alternative officing,” or “alternative work environments” (AWEs).
This booklet is a first step in distributing current research knowledge about office environments from BOSTI’s large client database.
As a supplement, Phyl Smith and Lynn Kearny’s book can provide some material on what might help make a worker more effective—at least for the part of the job that requires thinking.
Green environments around schools, such as green playgrounds and window views, might help ADD children, or even all children, function more effectively.
Kristen Day, Daisy Carreon, and Cheryl Stump (University of California, Irvine) reviewed 71 research studies, almost all since 1980, to determine research findings that have a bearing on the physical design of facilities for those with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Tove Fjeld and his associates looked at how plants affected the health of office workers, while Larissa Larsen and her associates examined how indoor plants affected students in an office setting.
Graham Brown and Robert Gifford investigated how architects and non-architects rated colored slides of late-twentieth-century office buildings.