Lighting a Path to Workplace Happiness
Imagine arriving at work and being happy there. A happiness that Cambridge Professor Koen Steemers calls “feeling good and functioning well.” It is this kind of happiness that building owners hope for their occupants, according to a Dodge Smart Market Report in 2016. Fine, except for one thing: who has the plan to get there? HOK and the WELL Living Lab at Mayo Clinic have a fruitful beginning. The WELL Living LabTM is a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and DelosTM, founder of the WELL Building StandardTM. The Lab’s purpose is researching real-world impacts of environments on human health and wellbeing. As a WELL Living Lab Alliance partner since February 2017, HOK is the Alliance’s only design, architecture and engineering firm. Partners draw upon their respective strengths and accomplishments toward success in this innovative endeavor. From HOK come scenarios drawn from the everyday work of the firm’s architects and interior designers. …
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