place science

Workplace floorplans influence employee communication, which influences employee performance.

Researchers have found that dampness or mold in a home is associated with resident depression.

Providing lighting to workers that they perceive as higher quality has a positive association with their workplace experience.

The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) recently completed a survey of 34,169 occupants of 215 buildings (90% in the US, 10% in Canada and Finland) that indicated that many individuals working in office buildings are unhappy with the thermal comfort or the air quality in these buildings.

Ian Sinclair, a Canadian architect, uses material culled from his own professional experience and a review of the literature to make a number of suggestions for “designing environments that inspire nurses to perform at the top of their game.”