. But in many office buildings, the only sinks are inside bathrooms, which tend to be out of the way. By introducing self-contained hand-washing stations and hand sanitizer dispensers in high-traffic areas, designers can help make the healthy choice the easy choice.
"Building owners, managers and developers who considered health more of a touchy-feely subject or didn't think they had control over it — the pandemic has forced them to think about it and the multitude of ways they do have control over it," she says.Some designers think the pandemic will bring about the end of the, which eliminated many inside walls and partitions and reduced the amount of private space for each worker.
Covid is not scary enough for NPR, have to push another 100 year flu.
Riot proofing.
How about redesigning the World to promote health and well-being?
Office buildings of the future. WorkFromHome
2025? What about now?
Windows that you can actually open. Wow. We waited for this 400 million years.
Building air tight heavily insulated buildings may not have been such a good idea.
Oh so thats what Biden meant when he said were need to ventilate schools?
I would say more than considering. This is already happening on some projects I have come across that are currently in the design phase.
They better realize many staffers will never return to the office. It’s the right thing to do for public health, environment, and well balanced lives.
We work from home now, NPR. You will always be behind as State Propagandists..
So....Star Trek ....ok!
Now do schools. Please? COVID has made it very clear just how cramped and stuffy our classrooms are.
How about employee pay rising when corporations become more successful?
3 of these make sense hand sanitizer does not. wash your damn hands and you won’t have to over use hand sanitizer.
Why? What do they know about 2021-2024? How bad is it?
Long overdue. Tear down every school building in America and start over while we’re at it.
Outside air would be engineers, not architects. But valid all the same. A tradeoff between energy efficiency and healthy environment.
Thank god
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bold of them to assume there will be... anything in 2025
The article acknowledges issues with outside air quality, specifically mentions the western US, and offers flexibility of outside air intake as an important aspect of design.
Thats great, although it takes a pandemic to start designing sensibly? Also, employers should consider telecommuting as a normal business practice - to help with the environment, infrastructure and mental health of employees.
Not sure how this is new. As an architect, we’ve been trying to practice these approaches since well for ever. Unfortunately money becomes a designer and well there I said it.
Here’s one product that can help : Kolonya is an organic moisturizing rinse-free hand cleanser that cleanses, moisturizes, and sustainably brings nature inside too. Perfect for any work area!
Heh “increased volume of outside air,” that’s adorable. - Western U.S.
Way overdue
Natural sunlight needs to be key in these designs.
hello hand sanitizers kill both GOOD and bad bacteria. stop using that SHIT.
Given the increasing fire season lengths from the front range of the Rocky Mtns to the Pacific Ocean, building envelope standards need to be changed to minimize unwanted air exchange with the outside, more fire resistance & HEPA filtration to keep indoor AQIs 100 during events.
This is some dystopian shit.
Oh are architecture firms surviving the commercial real estate crash?
It's really weird reading this at a time when many of us are trying to block outside air.
Maybe CEO’s who don’t demand 13.5 hour workdays with no breaks
Windows that open
What happens in 2025 that we start prioritizing human health? Write that fucking story, NPR...
And open floor plans can get be launched into the sun.
'Increased volume of outside air'... unless you're on the West Coast or anywhere else prone to wildfires.
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