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  • McCoy Rockford Furnishes Inclusive Lab Environment at TMC Innovation

    McCoy Rockford Furnishes Inclusive Lab Environment at TMC Innovation

    When the Texas Medical Center needed to quickly outfit a 9,330 square-foot inclusive lab space, McCoy Rockford knew how to get it done: Maverick. A quick-ship solution curated by McCoy Rockford, Maverick offered the right combination of high-quality product, comprehensive services and expedited turnaround time for the job. Featured furnishings. We drew from AMQ, Steelcase…

  • How AI Is Revolutionizing Architecture, Engineering & Construction

    How AI Is Revolutionizing Architecture, Engineering & Construction

    In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that technological advancement would double every year as the number of components per integrated circuit increased. With the rise of AI, Moore’s Law has become a thing of the past. We are now living in the Zettabyte era — a period marked by better hardware, smarter algorithms and…

  • Making Hybrid Offices Feel Like Home

    Making Hybrid Offices Feel Like Home

    Since the 1980s, academics and tech leaders have argued that remote work is possible, especially for knowledge workers. But it wasn’t until the pandemic that companies in wealthy industrialized countries were forced into a global remote-work experiment. While we have learned that most tasks and meetings can be accomplished outside the office, it has also…

  • Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Educational Spaces

    Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Educational Spaces

    Students in every age group, from kindergarten to higher education classrooms, are more burdened with psychological stressors than ever before. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, instances of anxiety and depression were already on the rise. The global catastrophe only exacerbated these trends by increasing social isolation, disrupting routines and diminishing the effectiveness of learning1. With…

  • Enhancing Workplace Gatherings with Flexible Design

    Enhancing Workplace Gatherings with Flexible Design

    Rather than basing office design on the need to fit more people into less space, the workplace should draw inspiration from a new source — the vibrant communities in which we live.

  • Top Three Workplace Products to Boost Creativity

    Top Three Workplace Products to Boost Creativity

    Rather than basing office design on the need to fit more people into less space, the workplace should draw inspiration from a new source — the vibrant communities in which we live.