Recently, CoreNet Global, the world’s leading corporate real estate and workplace executives professional association in the world, recognized their Top Rated Faculty for 2009. This award is given to specific individuals who have participated in developing and instructing CoreNet courses. Recipients of this elite award also must receive a 6.4 or higher rating on a 7 point scale on the course evaluation sheet based on their course knowledge, crowd interaction and presentation skills.
HOK Advance Strategies is fortunate to have three Top Rated Faculty recognized for their dedication to teaching and advancing the profession. …
What do planners and designers read? Just in time to provide us all with some desperately needed last-minute holiday gift ideas, we asked our Life at HOK bloggers to tell us the books they most enjoyed in 2009. In return we got nothing resembling a trend, unless you can spot one amid the detective novels, cult classics, modern fables, philosophy, math, sustainability, science, business and Ayn Rand.
Though a couple respondents reported that they read on Kindles — one frequent traveler lavished “best thing in the world” praise on her new e-reader — and another loads audiobooks onto his iPod, most are still reading good, old-fashioned books. “The older, the better,” wrote Michelle. “I like …
HOK’s chairman and most vocal sustainable design advocate is blogging Greenbuild 2009 for Contract magazine.
In his first post for Contract, Bill reflects on his journey to Phoenix, writes about seeing the automated people mover designed by HOK being constructed at the Phoenix airport and describes taking the light rail train to his hotel.
In his next post, Bill gets excited about a new LED downlight from the expo and zeroes in on zero carbon and building retrofits as the big themes for Day 1…and much more.
Related: HOK is recording lots of green-ahas!
It has been almost 36 days since the last time garbage has been picked up in the city of Toronto (Compare that to my hometown of Windsor, which has had a city strike going for over 15 weeks.). But nevertheless, it looks like the city and the union have stopped their bickering and are working toward amends.
For the people to the south, not only have we had to go through a city workers strike, but also a VIA (Amtrak equivalent) strike and a liquor strike (We only have Liquor Stores, and Beer Stores. Not gas stations, or drive through windows where you can get your beverage …
This past weekend, the City of Toronto held its 10th annual ‘Doors Open’ to celebrate the Architecture in the city, especially since May is ‘Architecture and Design Month.’ Unfortunately this year’s selection of buildings for the public to explore was mostly a wide selection of Public Lobbies and Foyers that anyone could go into on any given day. I’m actually surprised retail shops don’t try to partake in the festivities, just to get people to go into their stores.
So with that said, I thought I would share some photos and stories as we trekked across the city.
The first stop, and new to the Doors Open event, was the Canadian …
This is the second annual Houston Lights Out event. Last year HOK was invited to participate by involving our building manager, Hines, and creating a poster design for the poster competition and for all of our assigned buildings that were participating in the event. So we were asked again this year and we have put out another hopefully winning poster. Last year we got second place and this year we would really like to sink first! So please follow the link below and vote for HOK!
Vote here: http://www.houston.org/lights-out-houston/
our poster is number 7 and it is also on the this post ; )
HOK has just been selected as one of Canada’s Greenest Employers for 2009.
Just had a great link passed on to (thanks Brian!). ‘Off to a great start…’ shows the top 10 ‘techno inspired’ calendars as listed by Dvice.com. Everything from the ‘Chrono Shredder’ (my personal fave) to one made of matches – you can literally watch each day pass in a puff of smoke!
Great ways to mark the days of 2009.
