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People don’t leave their identities at home when they come to work—and their environment shouldn’t ask them to. Whether it’s through flexible layouts or sensory-conscious design, the modern workplace must be designed with intentionality and show up for its people. In this conversation, Koorosh Sharghi, President of Studio TK, and Sara Agrest, Design Director at…

  The assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, that caught fire in mid-July, killing 10 people, had safety certification problems in 2023 but after a preliminary look into the cause, the state fire marshal says the fire likely stemmed from a resident’s oxygen tank. Either the tank malfunctioned or oxygen from the tank ignited…

  Scope 3 emissions are a headache in food and agriculture. Large supermarkets stock tens of thousands of products containing multiple ingredients. And food companies have supply networks that span large farming cooperatives and smallholders in developing nations. Obtaining primary emissions data from every node in this network is impossible, forcing companies to rely on…

Amazon’s commitment to become net zero by 2040 — earlier than its rivals in tech and e-commerce — came Sept. 19, 2019, one day before 3,000-plus Amazon employees participated in that year’s Global Climate Strike and 8,700 signed a petition calling for their employer to take action. Behind both campaigns: an activist group called Amazon…

With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new data from recruitment firm, Robert Walters, reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up. The research found that only 20 per cent of professionals now say they adhere to the core hours at work, instead over a third (37…

In the rapidly evolving urban landscape, parking buildings are vital components of a wide variety of facilities, and—as their functional importance grows—so does the complexity of designing and building them, especially in earthquake-prone regions. Updates to seismic codes significantly affect how structures are designed, budgeted, and constructed. These regulations, implemented to improve public safety, reshape…