HDR's Insights blog is written by our employees. While we are most well-known for delivering architecture and engineering services—for adding beauty and structure to communities through high performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists. Our thought leader bloggers represent offices from around the world and write about ideas, experiences and insights into our practice and the greater design community. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

Regenerative Design

Adopting a regenerative design mindset

To help address the current climate emergency, a new way of thinking across the entire architecture, engineering and construction industry is imperative. Part of the solution ...
30th June 2022
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Designing for health sciences education: supporting student well-being

Today, support for student and faculty health and well-being are major goals of most institutions. This is especially true in the health sciences, where the rapid evolution of...
11th Jan. 2022
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Designing for health sciences education: Specialty instruction and human anatomy labs

For allied health professions, nursing, public health and other health education programs that accept students as undergraduates, the basic life sciences of biology and chemistry...
28th Sept. 2021
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Prioritizing children’s perspectives with play-based design charrettes

Design charrettes require buy-in and input from all stakeholders to develop a consensus on wants, needs, concerns and ideas ahead of a project. Engaging the users of a space ...
20th Aug. 2021
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Buildings as carbon banks

In 10 years, the world will have reached a tipping point where the negative impacts of climate change are irreversible. A significant contributor to global CO2 emissions...
19th Jan. 2021
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Performance-based textile cleaning and disinfection in the age of COVID-19

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting surfaces, including performance-based textiles, has become a major concern in all industries. Healthcare...
25th Sept. 2020
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Elevating the human experience in public realm infrastructure

As we work together to create a sustainable world for future generations, there are many innovative solutions in the public realm of our cities and communities that reduce waste...
27th Jan. 2020
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Why mass timber?

Human migration towards city centers has triggered massive building booms all over the world. With stress on resources and space from rapid urbanization, new forms of green building...
2nd Oct. 2019