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Conversion, Flex and Spec Design for Life Sciences Uses
[…] active and completed projects. Design Considerations So how do you determine a real estate footprint? There is data and trends in the industry to support options for conversions, flex spaces and hubs. Depending on your requirements, we look to core design considerations in every project to enable workflow processes, flexibility and future capacity. Considerations […]
Transforming Office Buildings to Livable Spaces
Key considerations for commercial conversions to residential uses
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30, 2021 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, a day that honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. The Day responds to one of 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of […]
Board Appointments at Global Architecture and Engineering Firm NORR
[…] “When designing new projects, we must build flexibility into their designs to accommodate future adaptive reuses more effectively, maximizing lifespans and minimizing the carbon footprints created during conversions. By doing so, architects and engineers are helping to solve global challenges such as climate change and the housing crisis.” Anthony Ricciuti, Executive Vice President, Retail, […]
Designing Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Groups
The world of design has much to learn from Indigenous Peoples. Tradition and knowledge are valued through harnessing personal and collective principles, thinking of buildings as living stories and embracing design as a way of building relationships, not as producing an innate object. As the A&E industry begins a journey to find meaningful ways to […]
Urban Regeneration Strategies
[…] measured through economic growth, as well as sustainable benefits for cities, owners, developers and occupants. While the industry talks a lot about the value of single building conversions, which is a big part of urban regeneration, the larger focus is acting on holistic strategies that attract capital to downtown cores through land and asset […]
Mental Health is a Universal Human Right
How empathy plays a pivotal role in designing for wellness
Increasing Efficiency: How simulating workflow enhances project staging
Using simulation-informed clinical design, we can engage all stakeholders from the outset and keep the patient at the core of the design process. The needs of patients must be kept as the primary goal to deliver an optimal design that helps to save lives. While simulation is just one instrument in our design toolkit, we […]
Fitting a Design Vision into a Fixed Heritage Framework
The unique elements of a heritage building are what make them spectacular, but also what make them challenging to future proof. A formal process and approach must be taken to identify the constraints and opportunities before architecture and engineering work begins. The resulting facts inform the appropriate strategy, integrated program and design solution. As part […]
Embracing Holistic Design
Sustainable design is holistic. It considers the optimization of every aspect of a project to forecast its carbon footprint and incorporates the objectives of the owner and the function of the user within its framework. It employs both an integrated multi-disciplinary team and an integrative process where team members bring synergies to building systems and […]
The Immersive Design Process
What if you could experience a healthcare environment before the facility or space was ever built? What if you could give real-time input into the design with accuracy and speed? It’s possible through an immersive design process. By leveraging virtual reality and in-situ simulation technologies, the immersive design process provides user data sets that inform […]
Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Strategies
Five considerations for electrification of buses and commercial fleets
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