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Let's work better

The work environment is changing rapidly. Technology and personalization are bringing new opportunities and challenges to how workspaces are designed and managed, to employees’ working habits, health and wellbeing, to personal control of the office environment, and to the work-life balance.

The Smart Buildings hub is all about sharing insights from industry- leading developers, designers, building owners and their blue- chip occupants. Everything you need to know to keep pace with this fast-moving sector and create a happier, more productive workplace.

Babette Bouman on future trends in the workplace, filmed at The Edge, Amsterdam for Philips Lighting

I think the future of the office will be more about meeting and talking to people and collaborating."

- Babette Bouman, Architect, Fokkema & Partners

Let's make the world better

Enabling this change is the Smart Building. Intelligent and responsive, it integrates the latest developments in the Internet of Things and always-on communications to deliver data-driven insights that increase productivity, enhance occupant happiness and well-being, improve sustainability, and optimize service delivery and operations.

Along with highly efficient LED-based connected lighting systems, innovative materials and circular approaches to construction and renovation position the Smart Building sector as an important component of global net zero energy and carbon-neutral initiatives. These initiatives are key to alleviating the severest effects of climate change.

The
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The
meaning
of greening

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Reimagining
office spaces

Investigating changes in the way we work, how we work, when we work and where we work.
Investigating changes in the way we work, how we work,
when we work and where we work.

Investigating changes in the way we work, how we work,
when we work and where we work.

Investigating changes in the way we work, how we work,
when we work and where we work.

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Living buildings

Explore how green and sustainable office spaces can be good for people, profit and the planet.

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We've identified four key drivers that are changing the workplace now and will continue to shape it in the future.

Green buildings

More than energy saving

Our increasing demands and finite resources call for a more considered, sustainable and responsible approach to how we do business as urban growth continues. Find out more about the circular economy approach and the real “meaning of greening” in today’s office.

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Connectivity

Optimizing the office

Discover how the seamless technology of a “smart building” supports flexible, wireless working, optimizes employee comfort and productivity and offers energy efficiency and control to owners and tenants.

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Health and wellbeing is good for business infographic

Health and wellbeing

Good for business

With generations X, Y and Z now co-workers, each with their own different working styles and needs, we look at how workplace comfort can keep people healthy, happy, motivated and

productive.

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Engagement and experience
Flexibility is king

The digital revolution has changed the way we work, bringing with it infinitely more flexibility, choice and opportunity over how, where and when we work. Is your office ready for the change?

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Change
is a constant

The workplace has changed beyond recognition in the last 100 years from task oriented autonomous desk working of the 20th Century to the flexible collaborative working practices we embrace in the 21st.

The impact of economic, social and environmental factors plus increased awareness of employee wellbeing has driven the need for new kinds of working environments. This has led to new thinking from investors, developers, designers and building owners in terms of what spaces they need to create for the future.
Early 20th century

Fixed desks

Task oriented

Strict hierarchys

No worker empowerment
Mid 20th century

Open plan offices

Increase in communications

Beginings of electronics

More efficient working methods

Still task oriented autonomous working
Late 20th
century

Computer technology introduced

Democratization of the workplace

Collaborative working

Portable communications

Flexitime

Hot desking
Early 21st
century

Workplace efficiency

Health and wellbeing identified

Environmental concerns

Digital connectivity

Desire for control and choice

Employee empowerment

Productivity and efficiency focus

Collaborative via digital means, E.g. Skype

IoT Smart Building Solutions transform the Workplace

Take a look beyond efficiency, and find out how the IoT can be used to boost worker experience and productivity on Smart Buildings.

Download the Forrester report: ‘IoT Smart Building Solutions transform the Workplace’ to find out how digital savvy business leaders are looking beyond bottom-line savings, and using their facilities and existing building infrastructure to support top-line growth, by transforming their workplaces.

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Welcome to

Smart Buildings

Let's work better

I think the future of the office will be more about meeting and talking to people and collaborating."

- Babette Bouman, Architect, Fokkema & Partners

Let's make the world better

The
greenest developer

The
meaning
of greening

Reimagining
office spaces

Living buildings

Discover more topics and trends