New research was commissioned to inform this latest edition of the BCO Specification (published in May 2009), covering subjects ranging from office temperatures, occupier densities and small power consumption.
Bco Guide To Specification 2009 Pdf
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There is additional coverage in the report on acoustics, vertical transportation, building refurbishment, handover and taxation. As with previous editions, it includes the incredibly useful 'Quick guide to key criteria'.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it became common for construction contracts to incorporate prohibitions on the specification or use of various materials, generally in the form of excluded materials lists. Such lists have proven ineffective in practice, and a different approach was required.
The first edition of this document was designed to encourage a change in emphasis, from the exlusion of materials to ensuring good practice in their selection. This objective was achieved, as consequently contract specifications referred to that document rather than the materials exclusion list.
The relationship between office space and business performance has been a keenly researched theme of the BCO since the publication in 2005 of "The Impact of Office Design on Business Performance". Building upon the conclusions of this seminal research report, this new guide is designed to raise awareness of the benefits of POE and to make it accessible to the occupiers, developers and designers by providing practical advice on how they can instigate their POE studies.
Our objective had been to explore how the design and specification of office buildings and interiors would be changed by the emergence of electronic technology. The ten major conclusions of the study were as follows:
Another contemporary offshoot of ORBIT, also stimulated by global economic and technological factors, was DEGW's work to the west of London, at Stockley Park, a business park conveniently located near Heathrow. Consequently, ORBIT also became influential in developing the specification for buildings to accommodate high-technology (hi-tech) firms themselves. This too was carried out under the aegis of Stuart Lipton and Stanhope. Previously, planners had thought in terms of accommodating such enterprises in tin sheds on industrial estates. Now it was possible to demonstrate, using exactly the same kind of extensive user research and field work that we were employing in the financial services sector in the city, the emerging demand for buildings and environments of a much higher specification to meet the more complex requirements of sophisticated hi-tech enterprises and the aspirations of the well-paid and highly educated professional people who were employed by them. 2ff7e9595c
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