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ICYMI The Weekly show: The hotel sector's 'competition for cleanliness' and workplace design amid COVID-19

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ICYMI The Weekly show: The hotel sector's 'competition for cleanliness' and workplace design amid COVID-19

The June 25 episode of BD+C's "The Weekly" is available for viewing on demand.


By BD+C Editors | June 26, 2020
The June 25 episode of BD+C's "The Weekly" is available for viewing on demand.
The June 25 episode of BD+C's "The Weekly" is available for viewing on demand.

This week on The Weekly, BD+C editors spoke with leaders from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Henderson Engineers, and Shawmut Design & Construction on three timely topics:  
• Is the open-plan office dead?  
• Misconceptions around advanced infection control strategies like UV lighting and bi-polar ionization. 
• The post-pandemic hotel and hospitality market, from the “competition for cleanliness” to the latest trends in amenities and features.

 

WATCH THE SHOW ON DEMAND

 

SEGMENT 1: Why the open-plan office will continue to thrive post-COVID-19, and the long-term ramifications of the virus on workplace design. Peter Lefkovits, AIA, Director, and Lori Maas, IIDA, CID, LEED AP, Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  

 

 

 

SEGMENT 2: Dustin Schafer, PE, Director of Engineering with Henderson Engineers, clears up some misconceptions around advanced infection control strategies like UV lighting and bi-polar ionization, and outlines practical, cost-efficient design strategies for maintaining healthy and safe buildings post-COVID-19.

 

 

 

SEGMENT 3: Randy Shelly, Executive Vice President, Shawmut Design and Construction, on the post-pandemic hotel and hospitality market, from the “competition for cleanliness” that will drive demand for hotel renovations, to the latest trends in amenities and features. 

 

 

WATCH ‘THE WEEKLY’ EVERY THURSDAY AT 1 PM EASTERN

“The Weekly” is a presentation of Horizon TV, the online broadcast arm of SGC Horizon LLC, publishers of Building Design+Construction, Multifamily Design+Construction, Professional Builder, ProRemodeler, and Construction Equipment.

 

The Weekly premieres May 18 on Horizon TV

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