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Sustainability

Genius of Biome Report Now Available

Natural systems provide inspiration for rethinking human design challenges. HOK’s latest collaboration with Biomimicry 3.8, the Genius of Biome report, dives deep into nature’s solutions for environmental challenges.

Workplace

Workplace Strategies that Enhance Performance, Health and Wellness

Strategic workplace design can be a powerful tool for supporting employee performance. A collateral benefit is that what typically supports productivity also enhances employee health and wellness – it’s all interrelated.

Design

Helping Airports Prepare for Natural Disasters

The challenge is to blend beauty and function to create inspiring airports that can withstand the increasingly brutal and always unpredictable whims of Mother Nature, writes HOK designer Ernest Cirangle.

Sustainability

Algae Powers Process Zero Concept Building

Metropolis challenged designers to develop innovative net zero energy solutions for a 46-year-old federal office building in downtown Los Angeles.

Design

HOK DNA: Our mission is to deliver exceptional design ideas and solutions through the creative blending of human need, environmental stewardship, value creation, science and art.

Workplace

Design

Sustainability

Metropolis challenged designers to develop innovative net zero energy solutions for a 46-year-old federal office building in downtown Los Angeles.

Workplace

Top firms are redesigning their offices to encourage interaction, creativity and spontaneous collaboration says HOK’s Lisa-Fulford Roy in a Toronto Star story.

IFMA's New Space and Project Management Benchmarks

Research

What are the trends influencing workspace allocation and how are 400 leading companies responding? HOK was a key sponsor of IFMA’s new Space and Project Management Benchmarks research report.

The Benefits of buildingSMART and BIM for HOK's Clients

Innovation

HOK uses buildingSMART® principles to create high-performance spaces that are more cost-effective and faster to deliver for clients worldwide.

Sustainability

What happens at the intersection of data and design? For HOK, this question is the inspiration behind a process for innovation called Fully Integrated Thinking™, or FIT.

Using Facebook to Transform the Workplace

Research

HOK’s workplace strategists leveraged the power of social media to collect data about how people feel about their workplaces and the types of spaces they need to succeed.

Sustainability

Patrick MacLeamy on the Future of the Building Industry

Innovation

In this five-part video series, HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy offers a solution for creating better buildings at much more affordable prices.

Innovation

The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital: Fast Company features several HOK clients and people in an article on innovation in healthcare design.

Workplace

How is Generation Y transforming the workplace? Six of HOK’s Gen Y designers and workplace strategists share their thoughts.

Design

How can designers help occupants of a high-rise community sustain a normal life? New York Design Director Kenneth Drucker joins a Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat discussion on the future of high-rise design.

Research

HOK collaborated with the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation on a new Accountable Design for Accountable Care policy paper examining the impact of healthcare design on accountable care goals Download the PDF or watch a video featuring Richard Saravayand Erin Peavey.

Innovation

Download the 2012 McGraw-Hill BIM in North America SmartMarket Report, featuring HOK’s Patrick MacLeamy and James Vandezande.

Sustainability

With the end of oil in sight, Saudi Arabia’s KAPSARC residential community is a vision of a sustainable future.

Design

How can we use design to improve patient outcomes? HOK’s Chuck Siconolfi, a global partner in the firm’s Healthcare practice, explains.

Innovation

Justice Director Jeff Goodale describes the new breed of correctional facility emerging in California.

Design

What is the future of retail? Barry Hughes, who leads HOK’s retail design group in London, outlines his vision and the critical role designers will play.

Sustainability

Harvard Magazine reports on architecture that draws its inspiration from nature at Lavasa, a new biomimicry-inspired city in India’s Western Ghata.

Innovation

Rebecca Nolan describes the importance of integrated project delivery.

Innovation

The fifth edition of Problem Seeking is the only programming guide appropriate for both architect and client. It features new ways of thinking about programming, new strategies for effective group action, and new settings in which to explore programming concepts.