Title & Author:

Designing the office of the future : the Japanese approach to tomorrow's workplace / Volker Hartkopf [and others].

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264).
1. International Perspective on the Office of the Future -- 2. Framework for Designing and Managing the Office of the Future -- 3. Process for the Field Evaluation of Advanced Office Environments -- 4. Japan's Rapid Approach to the Office of the Future -- 5. Toshiba Headquarters -- 6. NTT Twins Regional Headquarters -- 7. ARK Mori Building -- 8. Umeda Center Building -- 9. Glimpses of Invention -- 10. Major Design Changes for the Office of the Future -- App.A Checklist for Identifying Components and Systems Innovations -- App.B Occupancy Assessments -- Toshiba Headquarters and NTT Twins Regional Headquarters -- App.C Profiles of Mechanical and Electrical Systems -- Toshiba Headquarters and NTT Twins Regional Headquarters -- App.D Profiles of Telecommunications Systems -- Toshiba Headquarters and NTT Twins Regional Headquarters -- App.E ABSIC Field Evaluation Team -- App.F ABSIC Mission Statement and Profiles of Industry Partners -- App.G Bibliography.
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Summary:

"Recent technological advances in telecommunications, electronics, security, automation, and building control systems create many new challenges for workplace designers. The "workplace of the future" must accommodate these new technologies and changing work styles in appropriate physical, environmental, and organizational settings to enhance worker speed, communication, and overall productivity." "The Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, an industry-university partnership established at Carnegie Mellon University, is dedicated to researching and developing the quality of the workplace through the innovative use of advanced technologies. This important work reports on the major findings of the multidisciplinary field team in the study of a few key Japanese office buildings. The authors focus on a selected set of design features - components and integrated systems - that herald innovative future trends and stand the test of occupancy evaluation." "Designing the Office of the Future provides the general approach of the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium (ABSIC) to the building studies and their use towards the development of advanced products and workplaces. The book reports generalized findings from the international building studies in four countries, explains the intellectual framework of the team's approach to defining advanced workplaces, and presents the details of the actual building evaluation process.".
"The book then presents an overview of Japanese trends drawn from the in-depth building studies and other building visits, as well as critical readings and discussions with Japanese leaders in intelligent building design. Other topics covered include the selection of innovative components, systems, and processes identified by the multidisciplinary team in four Japanese buildings - Toshiba Headquarters, NTT Twins Regional Headquarters, the ARK Mori Building, and the Umeda Center building. Designing the Office of the Future then discusses new developments in building design technology, and concludes with a list of major design changes to be introduced into the technologically advanced workplace."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471595691 (acid-free)
9780471595694 (acid-free)

Subject:

Office buildings Japan.
Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Interior architecture Japan.
Engineering design Japan.
Immeubles de bureaux Japon.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Conception technique Japon.
Architecture.
Engineering design.
Interior architecture.
Office buildings.
Architektur
Büro
Innenarchitektur
Kantoren.
Bouwkunst.
Interieurs.
Edificios comerciais (arquitetura)
Arquitetura moderna (japao)
Japan.
Offices Architecture

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Hartkopf, Volker.
Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293453
Call No.: BIB 238419
Status: Available