Design Dialogue

HOW GREEN BUSINESS IS GOOD BUSINESS

One of the current preoccupations of the World Green Building Council is to demonstrate how green business is good business, writes the BCFA’s Colin Watson. The way it is presenting this argument is intriguing because as well as extolling the most anticipated benefts of green building design, such as lower energy bills, it is linking green building design with human… Read More >

21 October 2014

The Year Office Design Chose a Different Path

In the 1950s it was famously possible for the author L P Hartley to describe the past as ‘a foreign country, they do things differently there’. If he were writing today, he would perhaps find it more accurate to describe the past as a distant planet, especially that alien past that predates the widespread use… Read More >

22 July 2014

Goodbye 9-5

FLEXIBLE WORKING PRACTICES HELP RETAIN AND ATTRACT STAFF New ways of working are being fuelled by employees desire to take greater control of their lives. Over three-quarters (77%) of respondents in a survey by YouGov for Virgin Media Business said that remote working helps them address their work-life balance and almost four in five employees (78%) believe… Read More >

3 June 2014

Why are left-handed people so brilliant?

 A self-confessed spawn of the devil thinks there’s a lot to be said for his tribe What do Barack Obama, David Cameron and Osama bin Laden have in common? Obvious, isn’t it? What about Prince William, Melinda Messenger and Bart Simpson? No? According to a highly scientific study, they are all more likely to suffer… Read More >

17 January 2014