![]() ![]() “This doesn’t mean the office will go away, but it will need to stretch and flex to redefine its role in knowledge work. This will carry over into every aspect of our lives.” ![]() “The shift toward true flexible work, even when we aren’t responding to a global pandemic, is long overdue,” Noble said pointing to the research. Globe Life Field and Texas Live by Loews in Arlington, Texas (Credit: HKS, Inc.) can be done from home, which represents 46 percent of all wages, and perhaps speaks to the pause in real estate decisions as the Dallas Region construction market roars ahead. The National Bureau of Economic Research estimates 37 percent of all jobs in the U.S. “We are in a grand experiment where many of us have been pleasantly surprised to learn that working from somewhere other than the office can not only be possible, but incredibly productive and beneficial.” “We will start seeing design as the design of society, not just buildings,” Noble said. For the past 15 years, HKS, a Dallas-based international architecture and design firm, has been the nation’s largest health care architect with about 45 percent of its work falling into the health care arena. President and CEO Dan Noble said getting back to normal will require flexibility as a digital transformation takes place a transformation that will blur health care design features across various sectors. “The three things to focus on for office design are operations, public space, and the janitorial operations, such as HVAC and ventilation practices, and the third piece is this legal overlay. “It’s like a moving target, and every single day we learn more and more,” McDonald said. Matt McDonald, Corgan Principal and Commercial Architect, said the design process during a pandemic requires architects and interior designers to solve for health and safety issues using health care principals of design. “We look at ways we may adapt space and increase a feeling of safety and trust that has been lost in this pandemic,” she said. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for getting back to the workplace, Corgan is exploring various impactful design elements to reestablish trust in the office environment, such as utilizing technology and security, Hendrick said. There are immediate and easy things to implement, including hand dryers rather than paper towels, and HVAC with filtration systems that are more common in hospitals rather than office buildings.” “Our approach for our clients is thoughtful and low-cost, but high-impact. “We are having really thoughtful conversations around designing for back to work, from short-term to long-term implications,” said Amanda Hendrick, Corgan Vice President of Business Development. Designing and building new spaces during an outbreak gives the firm a front row seat to finding innovative solutions to adapting its client’s spaces for a safe return to the office. In the region, Corgan currently has more than 700,000 square feet of commercial office space and an arts center under design and construction. “You don’t just stop an aircraft carrier or a freight train in five feet.” “There is no region in the U.S., for the past three years, that has had the job growth and corporate relocations that we’ve had,” Rosa said. Investments and bond funds allocated to accommodate the momentum of growth will continue to move projects along, said Mike Rosa, the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Senior Vice President of Economic Development. “We have prospective office towers in the downtown core that are moving full steam ahead, as well as projects that are under design.” 2401 Cedar Springs, Uptown Dallas (Credit: Corgan)Ĭities in the Dallas Region have been among the fastest growing cities in the nation for years, and this trend continued before the pandemic hit. “We are moving forward on a vast majority of projects,” said Joe Haver, Principal at Corgan, a Dallas-based architecture and design firm. ![]() Gloria Salinas, Managing Director, Economic DevelopmentĪs the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact brings construction to a halt in most top markets, Dallas Region continues to build. ![]()
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