Leigh Stringer. Green Workplace Maven. HOK Board of Directors Member. Loving Wife and Mother. All Around Great Person. If you don’t know Leigh Stringer, you are missing out. A rising star in HOK’s Advance Strategies practice, Leigh has focused her career on green design and workplace behavior in facility planning projects all over the world. She is author and creator of the The Green Workplace blog and she has also recently published a book of the same name. Even more impressive is that between clients, book signings and star-studded weddings in NYC, she still made time to answer my 5 questions so all of you could get to know her too….
About a year ago, I gave you an update of what was going on in my work life. Looking back over the last year of Life@HOK, I thought it might be fun to revisit that post,and let you know what’s going on now! You’ll see from the list below that some things have stayed the same, but lots of cool new things have come up too!
Revisiting old news:
- GSA Unit Cost Study: just about wrapped up!
- U.S. Capitol Complex Master Plan (still going, and I still can’t tell you more or I’d have to shoot you)
- Blogging on The Green Workplace
- Blogging on Life@HOK
Sharing new news:
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Not to be outdone by Chicago, HOK WDC hosted a book-launch party for our own Leigh Stringer and her fabulous book The Green Workplace on Tuesday, October 6.
The event was held on the green roof of 700 Sixth Street, one of DC’s first LEED C&S Platinum buildings (designed by HOK, of course). The building’s developer, Akridge, gracefully allowed HOK to use the roof deck (and downstairs lobby when the fall wind and a few sprinkles picked up), as well as providing tours of the space on the fourth floor (currently tracking LEED CI Gold!). Food was …
Roughly two years ago (Thanksgiving 2007) I started a blog called TheGreenWorkplace. Not long after, several other HOK folks were blogging along with me, including Jodi Williams, Anica Landreneau and Emma Wharton, three talented bloggers for Life at HOK. After just a few months and lots of web traffic, we knew we had something. In January of 2007 we decided to make it a book, and after writing a few chapters and hiring an agent (Lauren Abramo), we landed a book deal with a great publisher, Palgrave Macmillan. Special credit goes to the HOK Advance Strategies team in DC for helping write and research: Jodi Williams, …
Before becoming HOK’s Chief Talent Officer in 2008, Susan Mitchell-Ketzes was a director of global workplace solutions with HOK Advance Strategies. She recently joined the firm’s Executive Committee.
Our cameras caught up with Susan, who these days is very much a moving target, in HOK’s Atlanta office. This is the first installment of a four-part interview.
Kings Place. Source: www.building.co.uk
Over the last three years, HOK London Advance Strategies have been helping Guardian News & Media to prepare to move 1,500 staff from six buildings in Farringdon into their new 140,000 sqft King’s Cross HQ – Kings Place. The first newspaper published from GNM’s new HQ was on Monday 15 December – click here to see it.
We helped GNM to devise a workplace strategy designed to provide an alternative working environment. The idea was to create spaces that would encourage flexible and collaborative working, an ambition often hampered in the past by having
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As I mentioned in my “Have Laptop, Work Anywhere” post, HOK Advance Strategies is really into Alternative Work and Sustainability - both for our clients and ourselves. One of the things the DC Advance Strategies team has done as part of our commitment to both is to take on smaller, unassigned desks (we have 5 seats for 6 people).
“My” desk is about 36 SF, including room for my chair and file cabinet (behind the desk). It’s tiny. It’s open. It’s close to my colleagues (you can see Claire Whitehill and Daphne Kiplinger in the background). It gets loud. I have little storage space. Other people sit at …
