This prospective research study was conducted at a government office which moved from an
open-plan office with somewhat enclosed workspaces to another open-plan office with open …

Knowledge sharing during unplanned face-to-face meetings between employees is
indispensable for innovation-based organizations. Spatial design of office buildings has …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to find suitable measures that facility managers can use to
prove the importance of a building for employee behaviour (and thus organizational …

Nurse station typologies are hypothesized to impact the way in which nurses interact with
each other and maintain co-awareness. Previous studies tend to describe nurse station …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between measures of the
plan configuration of buildings (in this case multi‐bed wards), and subjective judgements on …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to explore preference for privacy among people with
different demographic and cultural backgrounds. In particular the study aims to investigate …

Two measures of floorplate shape, a measure of universal metric distance and a measure of
convex fragmentation, are developed to study the effect of building shells upon the spatial …

Active shooter incidents typically transpire quickly. Research reveals that 70 percent of
active shooter incidents end in less than 5 min, and that a majority of incidents are over …

A growing body of literature suggests that face-to-face interaction among clinicians in
hospitals affects patient outcomes. How can face-to-face interaction among clinicians be …

Abstract Knowledge sharing is essential in present day society which is focused on
innovation. Research driven organisations put a lot of effort in stimulating the knowledge …