Moderator: Roger L. Neuenschwander, FAIA, TVS Interiors Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
R. J. Brennan, LEED AP, IA Interior Architects, Chicago
Steven Drucker, AIA, IIDA, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Los Angeles
Susan English, AIA, IIDA, Gensler, Washington, D.C.

      Today’s facility managers and planners wrestle with competing issues that will dictate the design direction of new and renovated facilities. Some of these issues include emergency preparedness and evacuation, increased use of multiple technologies in the workplace, ergonomics, and energy and resource conservation requirements. We’ll explore ways facility managers and planners can use an integrated design process that includes these issues.

Learning objectives:

• Review the complexity of business issues that affect facilities
• Analyze the complexity of business issues that affect facilities
• Discuss how these issues affect companies’ corporate plans and market demands