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Detection development
Eaton Corporation’s general manager, Frank Ackland, explains how advances in fire detection systems can help facility and maintenance managers.
school of thought
designed by swiss bureau, the swiss international scientific school is the first ever purpose built educational building in the region to be awarded minergie label.
Building A Solid Foundation
Shakti Chauhan, country head, IFMS, Reliance Retail, on structuring the company’s FM division
Scaling Up
Rohan Keswani, Director – Technical, Aluplex India, highlights how facade systems are getting increasingly intelligent, converting structures into iconic statements of a city’s growth and prosperity.
Designing For Change
Benjamin Hubert talks about embracing change and designing for people’s needs.
Cool Ideas
Blue Star Limited has an advanced range of solutions on offer to fulfil requirements of residential, corporate as well as commercial customers.
Happy Cities: Making Wellbeing Quantifiable
David Green leads Perkins+Wills Cities + Sites practice worldwide and focuses on master planning and urban design projects
Immersive ‘City'
With the aim to build a workspace that would resonate with the local identity, while retaining the companys global persona, KGD Architecture was entrusted with the task to design Facebooks HQ in Hyderabad
Invested In ‘Well-Being'
Chris Ross, senior director and head of global site operations at Adobe, talks about how the companys workplace team is reinventing their approach to facility management to handle operations for one of the largest creative powerhouses in the world
The Surging Wave
In conversation with Llewellyn Rozario, founder and MD, UniBIM Services, about how BIM technology is no longer the new kid on the block, as more companies understand its reach and benefits.
Changing Workscapes
With its contemporary designs, Cherry Hill explores the evolving face of modern work spaces
Champions Of The Built Environment
Industry body iNFHRA recognises key contributions at the FM Excellence Conference & Awards 2017-18
Understanding Design Trends
Kevin McLachlan, senior partner at Godwin Austen Johnson, describes an ideal environment when developing properties
Enabling Opportunities
Top corporate executives from different organisations gathered to launch Global Association for Corporate Services (GACS), a non-profit organisation aimed for knowledge sharing and skill development
Forward-Thinking Workplace
Interior design firm DWP used wooden organic structures and greenery to provide a bright workspace for Smart Dubai’s new office
The Next Business Frontier
The fourth Annual Smart Office India Summit 2018 saw the country’s leading decision makers, designers and facility heads deliberate on the state and future of the commercial design industry.
Essential Fitments
With a generous application seen on wall claddings, partitions, furniture, table tops, cabinets, etc, plywood, veneers and laminates have become an indispensable part of commercial interiors.
The Anatomy Of A Chair
Anil Mathur, Godrej Interio’s COO, on the company’s work towards seating in workplaces, which is aimed at enhancing employee wellbeing.
Healthy Building Technology
Reading big data patterns can help prolong a building’s lifecycle as data analytics tools have come of age.
Leveraging Traditional Art
Designed by Promontorio, the exterior of the Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon features geometric bas-relief patterns, inspired by traditional Egyptian motifs.
GBCI Launches First LEED Lab In North India At The Amity University, Haryana
Green Business Certification Inc, the organisation that certifies all LEED green building projects worldwide, joined hands with Amity University, Haryana to launch the first ever LEED Lab in North India.
Best Of Both Worlds
Recognising the potential in the newly emerging sect of players, Raheja District II by Raheja Universal has created an ecosystem for the new wave of micro, small and medium enterprises in the country, shares the company’s MD, Ashish Raheja
Scaling Up
Commercial Design looks at the latest technological developments in the escalators and elevator industry
Best Apps For Architects
Commercial Design rounds up five popular mobile design apps
The Art Of Branding
Phil Davis, founder and CEO of Propriartary, on why companies are embracing brand art to express their vision and mission statement in a more creative manner.
Work Like Home
Inshorts Media believes that there’s no place more comfortable than home and its office aims to offer domestic luxuries at the workplace.
Innovation-Led Interiors
The new Kolkata branch of Dalmia Bharat is an office area designed around positivity, nature and sustenance.
The Essence Of Oman
LOM Architecture and Design’s plan for the National Bank of Oman deliberately avoids extensive glazing, choosing instead a contextdriven approach.
Smart Strategies
Neelam Chhabra, the facilities management head at Airtel Centre and APO buildings, on the exhaustive number of ways that the telecom giant attempts to be environmentally conscious, as well as creative and collaborative.
The Pathfinders
With the advent of technological transformation, some of the most creative, technical and structural minds of this industry discussed the best practices in building design and maintenance.