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Before the election, the airconditioning approval process took three months. Now, schools are waiting 15 months.
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
Don't think you're alone when working from home - the typical office desk has more than 10 million bacteria. Here's how to stop your WFH setup leaving you needing sick leave.
Personal space is finally back in style, but re-creating it after two decades of its destruction is hardly a straightforward task.
With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from th
If a return to the office is on the cards, both employers and employees have a role to play in minimising the risk of COVID-19 spread.
A closet, a couch and a kitchen counter will do in a pinch, but children need rooms designed just for them.
If followed, the guidelines would transform the everyday experience of employees across the country, from executives to clerical workers.
Employers will have to eliminate numerous health hazards to comply with the government's COVIDsafe plan for workplaces.
The coronavirus pandemic has sped up a revolution in home working, leaving offices around the world empty. But what was the point of them anyway?
The open-plan, shared office may be a thing of the past if physical distancing and stricter hygiene become the new normal.
Inclusive learning space design should be based on a tripartite framework addressing the diverse physiological, cognitive, and cultural needs of learn
You don't necessarily realise, at the time, when you are working with someone truly great in your field. Danny Munnerley
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A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.
Experts have tips on the office routines that need to change when everyone’s working from home. Meetings, for one.
Where we learn matters. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning.As a profession, we have honorabl
It might be the answer to America’s school-reopening problem.
We investigated physiological and subjective responses to morning light exposure of commercially available LED lighting with different correlated colour temperatures to predict how LED-based smart lighting employed in future learning environments will impact students. The classical markers of the circadian system (melatonin and cortisol), as well as the subjective perception of sleepiness, mood, and visual comfort, were compared. Fifteen university students underwent an hour of morning light exposure to both warm (3,500 K) and blue-enriched (6,500 K) white lights at recommended illuminance levels for classrooms and lecture halls (500 lux). The decline of melatonin levels was significantly greater after the exposure to blue-enriched white light. Exposure to blue-enriched white light significantly improved subjective perception of alertness, mood, and visual comfort. With regard to cortisol, we did not find a significant difference in the cortisol decrement between the two light conditions. Our findings suggest that the sensitivity of physiological and subjective responses to white LED light is blue-shifted. These findings, extending the already known effects of short-wavelength light on human physiology, reveal interesting practical implications. Blue-enriched LED light seems to be a simple yet effective potential countermeasure for morning drowsiness and dozing off in class, particularly in schools with insufficient daylight.
As more colleges announce their instructional plans, two simulations suggest some of the likely challenges to a physical return. Others see opportunity for experimentation around teaching and learning.
Even in the time of COVID-19, strong forces pull us back to the office.
Not all teaching spaces in universities are big enough to allow students to return to normal study as the pandemic restriction ease.
Pandemic-proofing offices could involve short-term fixes, new working patterns and long-term design upgrades that put hygiene at the heart of workplace planning.
The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating workers’ worries about returning to jobs in these often debated floor plans.
More than a decade into the era of the open-plan office, a host of ancillary spaces like “phone booths” and “meeting pods” are cropping up, offering employees an escape from their co-workers.
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