Creating the Productive Workplace: Places to Work Creatively

Abstract

Preface. Contents. Foreword - Nick Raynsford, Minister for Construction, DETR. Creativity, Environment and People. Creativity in the Workplace - Jackie Townsend. Pleasure and Joy, and their Role in Human Life - Michel Cabanac. Emotion and Environment: The Forgotten Dimension - Mathab Farshchi. A Broad Definition of Comfort - Max Fordham. Stress and the Changing Nature of Work. The Economic Case for Productivity. The Economics of Enhanced Environmental Services in Buildings - David Mudarri. Productivity Link Assessment to Indoor Air Quality - Charles E Dorgan and Chad B Dorgan. The Nature of Productivity. Productivity in the Workplace - Derek Clements-Croome and Yamuna Kaluarachchi. Productivity in Buildings: The Killer Variables - Adrian Leaman and Bill Bordass. Individual Control at each Workplace - David Wyon. Creating High Quality Workplaces using Lighting - Jennifer Veitch. Concentration & Thinking. Attention and Performance in the Workplace - Roy Davis. Concentration and Attention: New Directions in Theory and Assessment - David A Schwartz and Stephen Kaplan. Case Studies. The Role of Perception, Designing for Productivity and Wellbeing - Jean Neumann. The Intelligent Workplace: A Research Laboratory - Volker Hartkopf and Marshall Hemphill. Airconditioning Systems of the K. I. Building in Tokyo - Hidetoshi Takenoya. Employee, Productivity in the Intelligent Workplace - Walter Kroner. Future Design: Guidelines and Tools - John Doggart. Optimising the Working Environment - John Jukes. The Future. Work Performance Improvement, using Facilities management - Andrew Carter. New Ways of Working: A Vision of the Future - Francis Duffy. Appendix. Index.