Design Smart Seminars
Humanscale introduces Design Smart Seminars, a series of educational events developed to arm Humanscale customers with relevant and enlightening industry facts and information, including building green, design and human behavior research, and office ergonomics. Presented by professionals who are personally connected to and passionate about the issues they cover, Design Smart Seminars aim to focus on the human element in commercial interiors.
Contact your Humanscale representative for an invitation to any of these events.
Building Green for a Sustainable Future
Max Zahniser, LEED-AP, will explain the positive impacts of building green on the environment, economy, and occupant health and safety. He will discuss the importance of the U.S. Green Building Council in promoting and achieving such goals and share the results of a California study of green building improvements. Zahniser will also explain why LEED is important and discuss its rating systems and credit categories, including Sustainable Sites, Efficient Water Use, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Air Quality, and Innovation.
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Presented by Max Zahniser, LEED-AP, NCARB
 Max Zahniser is a LEED Accredited Professional and founder of Praxis, a technical sustainability consulting company with clients and partners including the U.S. Green Building Council, Humanscale, Autodesk, WRT and YRG. Zahniser has served as the LEED for New Construction Certification Manager—and the final arbiter of about 200 certifications—and was involved with the design and construction of the USGBC’s own Platinum LEED certified CI office space. Zahniser has also taken on the role of Staff Point/Manager in the development of LEED-NC version 2.2 and LEED for Schools rating systems, and LEED-Online system requirements, among other responsibilities. Prior to his involvement with the USGBC, Zahniser worked at four architectural firms, two of which are also actively green. Zahniser boasts extensive public speaking and media experience. He has appeared live on NPR and been featured in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Environmental Business News, Metropolis and Contract magazines.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Interior Environmental Quality: Studies That Support Design Solutions
Dr. Martin will demonstrate how integrating research into the design process can help improve the resulting design. Research about environmental quality issues—such as employee productivity, indoor air quality and ergonomics—as they relate to human behavior and a particular environment, can help enable facility managers and designers to make better decisions. InformeDesign® is a free website and knowledge management system that connects design practitioners to more than 1,900 Research Summaries from more than 175 scholarly journals that relate to design and human behavior. Dr. Martin will demonstrate how to use this valuable tool and utilize its searchable features.
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Presented by Dr. Caren Martin, Ph.D., CID, ASID, IIDA
 An assistant professor of interior design at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Caren Martin is an award-winning designer and co-creator and director of InformeDesign®, a searchable database of design and human behavior research sponsored by ASID and created by the University of Minnesota with colleague Dr. Denise Guerin. Prior to earning her graduate degree, Dr. Martin practiced non-residential interior design and project management for nearly 20 years. Dr. Martin is a two-time governor-appointed member of the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design. She was chair of the Board’s Rules Committee in 2001, 2006, and 2007, and its Delegate to NCIDQ from 2006 to 2007. Dr. Martin has authored numerous reports on professional practice aspects of interior design and architecture. She has also conducted research on public opinion and professionalization aspects of those practices in an historical context. In spring 2007, Martin’s monograph, Interior Design From Practice to Profession, was published by ASID.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Office Ergonomics: Current Trends
Get up to date on the latest ergonomic findings and trends with Humanscale’s Ergonomic Educational Series. Professor Alan Hedge will present the latest research on the ergonomic requirements for healthy computing, including:
- Ergonomic requirements for the modern office
- Computer work and preventing musculoskeletal disorders
- Latest research on keyboards and mice
- Effects of input device design and positioning on posture
- Ergonomic chair design requirements and optimal seated posture
- Visual ergonomics and new screen technologies
- Research on benefits of working in dynamic neutral posture
- Latest evidence on economic benefits of ergonomic interventions
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Presented by Professor Alan Hedge, PhD, CPE
FHFES, FErgS, FIEA
Director, Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory Cornell University Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
 Alan Hedge is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, where, since 1987, he has directed the Human Factors and Ergonomics teaching and research programs. He also has a joint appointment as a Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. He directs the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory and co-directs the Cornell Design Concepts Laboratory. Prior to joining Cornell, for over 10 years Professor Hedge ran the Graduate Program in Applied Psychology and Ergonomics at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., and from 1990 to 1993 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham, U.K. Professor Hedge is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and was awarded the 2003 Alexander J. Williams Jr. Design Award by the Society. He is also a Fellow of both the British Ergonomics Society (UK) and the International Ergonomics Association, as well as a Certified Professional Ergonomist. Professor Hedge’s research and teaching activities focus on issues of design and workplace ergonomics as these affect the health, comfort and productivity of workers. He co-edited the "Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods" and co-authored "Keeping Buildings Healthy: How to Monitor and Prevent Indoor Environmental Problems." Additionally, Professor Hedge has published 30 chapters and more than 160 articles on these topics in ergonomics and related journals.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC
(IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Integrating LEED into Your Building Process
In a daylong workshop, Max Zahniser will develop a case for green building and discuss the role of manmade structures in the natural world. He will explain the concept of systems theory and how it applies to the built environment. Zahniser will review the history of the U.S. Green Building Council and detail the LEED Rating Systems, including LEED for New Construction, LEED for Commercial Interiors, LEED for Schools and LEED for Homes, among other Rating Systems. He will also discuss common certification challenges, and the futures of LEED and the building industry. Additionally, Zahniser will present some of his own research on cutting-edge technology used for the design and construction of built environments.
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Presented by Max Zahniser, LEED-AP, NCARB
Max Zahniser is a LEED Accredited Professional and founder of Praxis, a technical sustainability consulting company with clients and partners including the U.S. Green Building Council, Humanscale, Autodesk, WRT and YRG. Zahniser has served as the LEED for New Construction Certification Manager—and the final arbiter of about 200 certifications—and was involved with the design and construction of the USGBC’s own Platinum LEED certified CI office space. Zahniser has also taken on the role of Staff Point/Manager in the development of LEED-NC version 2.2 and LEED for Schools rating systems, and LEED-Online system requirements, among other responsibilities. Prior to his involvement with the USGBC, Zahniser worked at four architectural firms, two of which are also actively green. Zahniser boasts extensive public speaking and media experience. He has appeared live on NPR and been featured in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Environmental Business News, Metropolis and Contract magazines.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Trench Warfare, Not Surgery: Implementing Sustainability in the Real World
Auden Schendler will recount his first-hand experience implementing sustainability as Executive Director of Community and Environmental Responsibility at Aspen Skiing Company, a green business pioneer and the first U.S. ski resort to receive ISO 14001 certification. Going green has become mainstream and every business in America is confronting the issue of climate change and sustainability. However, if sustainability was as quick, easy and profitable to implement as the media leads us to believe, Schendler says, it would have happened already. Instead, he equates the practices that will save the planet to trench warfare. In his seminar, Schendler will provide a realistic understanding of what working toward sustainability actually entails and share stories of success and failure based on his own experiences at ASC, a business that has already struggled with sustainability for a decade.
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Presented by Auden Schendler, LEED-AP
 Auden Schendler is a LEED-Certified Professional and Executive Director of Community and Environmental Responsibility at Aspen Skiing Company. A pioneering green business in the United States, ASC is the first ski resort to receive ISO 14001 certification and leads the industry in renewable energy and biodiesel use, onsite renewables, sustainability reporting, certified green buildings and political activism.
Previously, Schendler was a research associate in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the world’s leading sustainability think tanks. Schendler was one of six international recipients of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2007 Climate Protection Award. And in its 2006 climate change special issue, TIME Magazine named Schendler a Global Warming Innovator.
Schendler’s writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Salon.com and many other journals, including two anthologies. He and his work have been featured in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure, and Businessweek. Schendler’s book about implementing sustainability, “The Forever Business: Dispatches from the Sustainability Frontier,” is scheduled for publication in Fall 2008 by Public Affairs.
For more details on Schendler’s work and other writings, visit www.aspensnowmass.com/environment.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Train-the-Trainer Program
Learn to make competent ergonomic assessments with Humanscale Consulting’s Train-the-Trainer Program. In this hands-on course, you will learn to identify and proactively address musculoskeletal risk factors through the application of validated ergonomic methods. Topics to be covered include:
- An introduction to ergonomics
- Common computer postures & associated musculoskeletal risk factors
- Basic human anatomy
- Overview of common musculoskeletal disorders, symptoms & causes
- Components of an ergonomically designed workstation
- Conducting effective ergonomic assessments
- Applied exercises
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Presented by Jonathan P. Puleio, M.Sc.
 Jonathan Puleio’s experience includes ergonomic consultation in the areas of product design, ergonomic program development, and applied anthropometry. Jonathan is currently working with the International Standards Organization (ISO) to develop international ergonomic standards for office environments and holds several U.S. patents for the design of ergonomic products. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Human Factors and Ergonomics from Cornell University.
CEUs
Attendees are eligible for AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits.
Ergonomics & Healthcare: Boost Patient Care through Caregiver Comfort
Discover the link between caregiver comfort and patient care—and how to leverage that connection—in a session that examines ergonomics in the healthcare environment.
Modern healthcare organizations are making tremendous improvements in the quality and cost of patient care by investing in the latest technology, but many are failing to address the human-computer interface.
In this talk, Professor Alan Hedge will shed light on a variety of ergonomics issues as they relate to healthcare IT, including their effects on healthcare personnel and the patient experience. Professor Hedge will explore solutions to the unique ergo challenges of IT-intensive work in the areas of digital radiology, nursing stations, computers on wheels (COWs), patient accounts, and medical records.
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Presented by Professor Alan Hedge, PhD, CPE
FHFES, FErgS, FIEA
Director, Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory Cornell University Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
Alan Hedge is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, where, since 1987, he has directed the Human Factors and Ergonomics teaching and research programs. He also has a joint appointment as a Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. He directs the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory and co-directs the Cornell Design Concepts Laboratory. Prior to joining Cornell, for over 10 years Professor Hedge ran the Graduate Program in Applied Psychology and Ergonomics at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., and from 1990 to 1993 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham, U.K. Professor Hedge is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and was awarded the 2003 Alexander J. Williams Jr. Design Award by the Society. He is also a Fellow of both the British Ergonomics Society (UK) and the International Ergonomics Association, as well as a Certified Professional Ergonomist. Professor Hedge’s research and teaching activities focus on issues of design and workplace ergonomics as these affect the health, comfort and productivity of workers. He co-edited the "Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods" and co-authored "Keeping Buildings Healthy: How to Monitor and Prevent Indoor Environmental Problems." Additionally, Professor Hedge has published 30 chapters and more than 160 articles on these topics in ergonomics and related journals.
CEUs
AIA and IDCEC (IIDA, ASID, IDC, IDEC) credits are currently pending.
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