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The case for new academic workspace

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posted on 2010-03-24, 16:34 authored by James Pinder, Jennifer Parker, Simon Austin, Fiona Duggan, Mark Lansdale, Peter DemianPeter Demian, Thom Baguley, Simon Allenby
Executive summary: This report draws upon the combined efforts of a number of estates professionals, architects, academics, designers, and senior managers involved in the planning of new university buildings for the 21st century. Across these perspectives, all would agree – although perhaps for different reasons - that this planning is difficult and that a number of particular considerations apply in the design of academic workspaces. Despite these difficulties, they will also agree that when this planning goes well, ‘good’ buildings are truly transformational – for both the university as a whole and the people who work and study in them. The value of well-designed buildings goes far beyond their material costs, and endures long after those costs have been forgotten ...

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

PINDER, J. ... et al, 2009. The case for new academic workspace. Loughborough : Loughborough University.

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© Loughborough University

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2009

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This is a report. It is also freely available from the project website at: http://www.academicworkspace.com/

ISBN

9781897911334

Language

  • en

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