Articles by Robert Nieminen

Home, Trend Alert September 8, 2015

Innovative Construction Materials and Technologies Modernize Our Building Stock and Reduce Our Environmental Footprint

Last year, Popular Science made a rather startling statement when it announced the world’s most advanced building material is … wood. Yes, you read that…

Home, Trend Alert July 13, 2015

As Nearly Half of the Workforce Becomes Independent, Co-working Spaces Will Lead the Way into the Future of the Workplace

If you’re one of those people who still clings to a traditional view of the workplace—that jobs are performed in a clearly defined office space…

Home, Trend Alert May 11, 2015

With Wireless and Handheld Technology Changing the Building-automation Game, Opportunities and Challenges Abound for Upgrading Existing Facilities

Welcome to the new era of building automation. Never before have building owners and facility managers had such sophisticated and integrated systems to keep their…

Home, Trend Alert March 23, 2015

Current Trends in Hospitality Design Are Blurring the Lines between Business and Leisure; Here’s How to Keep Things in Focus

The world of interiors is out of focus. Everywhere you look, the lines that have traditionally divided commercial from residential spaces and business from leisure…

Features, Home, Trend Alert January 12, 2015

The Open Office Concept Has Promised Greater Collaboration and Creativity in the Workplace. But Has It Come at the Cost of Our Privacy?

There’s a not-so-silent war that’s being waged in corporate offices all across America that’s threatening productivity, not to mention people’s sanity. Since the unceremonious death…

Features, Home, Trend Alert November 24, 2014

Manufacturers Are Quickly Responding to Market Demand to Disclose the Make-up of the Products They Produce to Better Understand the Relationship Between Them and the Built Environment

“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”—Alvar Aalto Nearly…

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