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Fundamentals of Sound

Presented by James Kasschau, President & CEO, ICF Group
Designers – 0.1 CEU; Architects – 1 LU

This course introduces the nature of sound waves, their properties and perception. The adverse implications of noise in the workplace are reviewed. Causes and remedies of air borne and impact sound transmissions are discussed along with how the quality of sound within a space can be improved. Concepts of sound reflection, reverberation and diffraction are explained. Passive and active acoustical solutions to sound quality problems that confront the workplace are described along with a review of appropriate metrics to measure their efficacy.

Course Objectives:

• Introduce the basic science behind sound
• Review the impact of noise in our daily lives
• Overview of sound transmission paths
• Understand room acoustics and sound propagation
• Provide a possible solution set of remedies to noise abatement
• Better the understanding of acoustics and their importance to design

Effective Presentation Skills

Presented by: David Gerson, Senior Director of Americas Marketing & Global Activation, Interface
Designers – 0.1 CEU; Architects – 1 LU

Learning how we communicate our message and developing the use of the 4 presentations skills during this training session will help you in your professional and personal life, improving client/customer presentations, event speeches and sales communication.

Course Objectives:

• Describe how we communicate our message, prepare for audiences, and identify what media best suits their needs
• Identify 4 presentation skills
  (Posture, Speech Control, Eye Contact & Gestures)
• Practice presentation skills and review examples of effective presentations
• Group discussion of other presentation types

Wellbeing in the Workplace

Presented by: Kevin Butler, Senior Ergonomist, Steelcase
Designers – 0.1 CEU; Architects – 1 LU

As students of the workplace, at Steelcase we know place shapes behaviors and experiences. And yet the power of place is still often overlooked.

Through more than a decade of research projects, we’ve been intently investigating ways to leverage the workplace to achieve organizational goals. So, as workplace wellbeing has emerged as a business issue of growing importance, it’s been on our radar for several years. And the more we looked at and learned about it, the more we realized it was important to learn more.

So we completed a focused research project in 2013 to understand the growing importance and expanding dimensions of worker wellbeing. As we researched and dug deep, we reached new insights about the positive drivers of wellbeing and the power of the workplace for achieving it. We would like to share our latest findings, the output of a team of our WorkSpace Futures researchers in Europe, North America and Asia.